Tummelplatz (Mauth)

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The playground with the forest service hut (May 2016)

At 2.6 hectares, the playground is the largest shaft in the Freyung-Grafenau district . It is located in the municipality of Mauth at an altitude of 1,140 meters in the Bavarian Forest National Park . The area is an intermediate stage for hikers to Mount Lusen .

Geography and geology

The Tummelplatz is about 5.3 kilometers northwest of Mauth and 2.9 kilometers southeast of the Lusens on a saddle between Hohlstein and Sulzriegel . This is a tree-free cultural landscape that was created as a meeting place for cattle herders and grazing cattle during the summer months. The shaft is located on solidified ice age rubble with granitic rubble. A tectonic fault, which has an east-west course, runs right through the area of ​​the playground. To the north and south of this fault are larger granite bodies. A larger distinctive structure is the mountain "Großalmeyerschloß" with a height of 1196 m.

history

The Tummelplatz was first mentioned in a document in 1809, but it is likely to be around 200 years older. The forest bulls from Schönbrunn "romped about" here . That is, they were herded together at this point in the evening while they grazed in the surrounding woods during the day. The shepherds were provided with provisions on the playground and the farmers were able to view their cattle. In 1834 the Bavarian state bought the Schönbrunn glassworks, so that grazing rights in the surrounding forests became extinct. However, the shaft itself was still grazed until 1956. Around 1844 the first modest service hut was built on the Tummelplatz, which burned down in 1858 and was renovated in 1860.

Forest service hut

In the center of the Tummelplatz is the "Forstdiensthütte Tummelplatz", which was built in 1860. Today it is a research field station of the National Park Administration of the Bavarian Forest . The building has a photovoltaic - alone system and is therefore energetically self-sufficient. The access road "Tummelplatzstraße" leads to the hut.

literature

  • Ingeborg Seyfert: The shafts of the Bavarian Forest , Morsak Verlag, Grafenau, 1975, ISBN 3-87553-058-6
  • Walther Zeitler, Konrad Jäger, Reinhold Weinberger: Pearls in the forest sea. Shafts and raised bogs in the Bavarian Forest , Neue Presse Verlags-GmbH, Passau, 2nd edition 1995, ISBN 3-924484-65-1

Web links

Commons : Tummelplatz (Mauth)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ingeborg Seyfert: The shafts of the Bavarian forest, p. 25

Coordinates: 48 ° 55 ′ 4.5 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 45.6 ″  E