Skull (shafts)
The skull is a shaft in the Bavarian Forest National Park in the Lower Bavarian district of Regen .
It lies between Scheuereck and Spiegelhütte at an altitude of around 800 meters, making it the only preserved shaft in the Regen district that is not in the high elevations.
A hiking trail leads over the two-hectare shaft, the course of which is partly identical to an old connection between Bavaria and Bohemia. A lance tip from the Merovingian era was found a few hundred meters above . The unusual name for a shaft can possibly be traced back to such a find. "Skull" was the name of the place before the shaft was built.
In 1731, Lindberg farmers regretted eight days' work in the forest. The original reason was that the wind had knocked down so many trees that the cattle could no longer get through and the game had no entry here. What the farmers could not use privately from the large quantities of wood, they burned on the spot. Then they grew rye in equal distribution , which they also cut together. However, as was the case with all other shafts originally, it later became a cattle pasture.
By 1831 the shaft had shrunk to six days (two hectares). The skull was grazed for an unusually long time, namely until 2007, by cows belonging to a farmer from Spiegelhütte.
literature
- Ingeborg Seyfert: The shafts of the Bavarian Forest , Morsak Verlag, Grafenau, 1975, ISBN 3-87553-058-6
Coordinates: 49 ° 3 ′ 27 ″ N , 13 ° 18 ′ 23 ″ E