Wörth (Wörthsee)
| Wörth (Mausinsel) |
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 ( Michael Wening around 1700) |
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| Waters | Woerthsee | |
| Geographical location | 48 ° 3 '31 " N , 11 ° 10' 16" E | |
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| length | 750 m | |
| width | 250 m | |
| surface | 11.6 ha | |
| Highest elevation | 567 m | |
| main place | Wörth (Schlössl) | |
The Wörth , but mostly Mausinsel , is the only island in the Wörthsee in Bavaria .
The small, densely forested island is located near the southwestern bank near Bachern and belongs to the municipality of Inning am Ammersee . It rises about seven meters above the lake level and is only separated from the mainland by a ten-meter narrow passage at the north end. Elsewhere, a walkway connects them to the bank. The island is located in the "western part of the Starnberg district" landscape protection area , is privately owned and is not open to the public.
In the south of the island is the Wörthschlössl Castle, built by the Katzmair in 1446 , with the St. Simpert Chapel . The castle used to be the summer residence of the Counts of Toerring , who built the current complex in 1772.
According to a legend, the popular name Mouse Island came about because one of the lords of the castle fled to the island from a mouse plague. The rodents had appeared after he had let some of his destitute subjects hard-heartedly burned in a barn and scorned: "Do you hear the mice whimpering?" The plague only disappeared when they got hold of him on the island and the death of the innocent had avenged him. According to one of the traditions, the lord of the castle came from Burgselberg in Steinebach , according to another, he came from Seefeld Castle from the time before the Toerring.
Bridge to Mouse Island
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Friedrich Panzer : Bavarian legends and customs. Contributions to German Mythology, Vol. 2 . Munich 1855 (reprinted by Schwartz Verlag, Göttingen 1956), No. 325; Alexander Schöppner : Sagenbuch der Bayerischen Lande, Vol. 2 . Munich 1852 (reprinted under the title Sagen aus Bayern by Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1979, ISBN 3-7991-6071-X ), No. 907.