Teufelsmühle (Black Forest)
| Devil's mill | ||
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 View over Gernsbach to the Teufelsmühle. Loffenau in the back left. |
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| height | 908.3 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany | |
| Mountains | Black Forest | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 45 ′ 14 " N , 8 ° 24 ′ 30" E | |
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| particularities | Teufelsmühle Tower ( AT ) | |
The Teufelsmühle ( 908.3 m above sea level ) is a mountain south of Loffenau in the northern Black Forest . It lies between the valleys of the Murg in the west and the Alb in the east. The Alb rises near the eastern flank of the mountain ( Alb origin ) before reaching Bad Herrenalb a few kilometers further north . The border between the communities of Gernsbach im Murgtal and Loffenau, both of which belong to the Baden-Württemberg district of Rastatt , runs over the Teufelsmühle summit plateau, which extends in a north-south direction .
Infrastructure
On the summit level, the 10 m high Teufelsmühle tower was built in 1910. In 1952 the observation tower was raised to 16.2 m, and in 1958 an annex was added, which was finally converted into a hiking home.
Not far from the tower is the Teufelsmühle mountain inn. Together the buildings form the Teufelsmühle residential area , a district of Loffenau. It can be reached by motor vehicle via a (formerly toll) side road from Rißwasen. The mountain is the starting point for hikes and mountain bike tours. Below the observation tower at 850 m above sea level. NHN operates the Drachenflugclub Loffenau e. V. has been a launch site for kites since 1977 - and today also paragliders . The landing site is 550 meters lower at Loffenau.
On the Teufelsmühle tower there is a plaque with the picture of Hubertus Waldteufels , a local poet whose real name was Emil Dietz and who lived from 1879 to 1957, most recently in Bad Herrenalb- Zieflensberg. The Waldteufelweg in the Upper Gaistal is named after him.
Surname
The Teufelsmühle does not owe its name to a real mill, but to a popular interpretation of the ice age block dumps found there . The occurrence of large boulders is difficult to explain in the absence of pending rock massifs and without knowledge of the transport through previously existing glaciers. In a legend, the scattered blocks become the building blocks of a mill built by the devil.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Teufelsmühle-Turm Loffenau on badische-seiten.de, accessed on January 6, 2015
- ↑ The Teufelsmühle in Loffenau on Black Forest information , accessed on January 6, 2015
- ↑ Teufelsmühle (living space) at the Baden-Württemberg State Archives, accessed on July 21, 2013
- ↑ Loffenau kite flying club
- ↑ Heinz Volz: The trace of the forest devil , in: Badisches Tagblatt , local edition Murgtal of March 7, 2009
Web links
- Description of the hiking route to the Teufelsmühle on the official website of Bad Herrenalb
- Description of the way to the devil's mill
- History and description of the Teufelsmühle with zoomable panorama picture