Weissenburg city forest
The Weißenburger Stadtwald , also called Weißenburger Wald , is the urban forest of Weißenburg in Bavaria , a large district town in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . It is 2806 hectares in size; of which 2579 hectares are forest.
The forest area is a mixed forest with large spruce and beech trees and a recreational and hiking area. It was given to the imperial city of Weißenburg by Ludwig the Bavarian in 1338 , which is why it is also known as Ludwigswald . There are marble quarries in parts of the forest .
geography
location
The Weißenburger Stadtwald lies entirely in the Altmühltal Nature Park . It extends southeast of the Weißenburg core city along the Albtrauf of the Weißenburger Alb , a mountain range of the Franconian Alb . The forest extends in the west to the Weißenburger Bucht and the valley of the Swabian Rezat , in the south and east to the valley of the Schambach and the Laubental ; the latter valley lies in the east at the transition to the forest areas Raitenbucher Forst and Wildhau .
The development of the city of Weißenburg extends to the forest in the north. On its northern edge are Schleifer am Berg and Oberhochstatt , on the southern edge Laubenthal , Suffersheim , Stadelhof and the clearing settlements Haardt and Heuberg . The forest area extends entirely on the territory of Weißenburg, in the south it borders on the municipal area of the city of Pappenheim , in the east on the municipal area of Burgsalach and Raitenbuch .
In the middle of the forest, north-east of Haardt, the 11th degree of longitude and the 49th degree of latitude intersect. The Rhine-Danube watershed runs through it as part of the main European watershed .
Natural allocation
The Weißenburger Stadtwald belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Alb (No. 08), in the main unit Southern Franconian Alb ( 082) and in the sub-unit Altmühlalb (082.2) to the natural area Weißenburger Alb (082.26). Its landscape falls to the north and northwest into the natural area foreland of the Weißenburger Alb (110.32), which in the main unit group Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land (11) and in the main unit foreland of the southern Franconian Jura (110) to the subunit Weißenburger Bucht (110.3) counts.
Surveys
The elevations of the Weißenburger Stadtwald include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN): the Steinberg ( 624.7 m ), on the plain ( 624.2 m ) with the Schroppenwinkel side knoll ( 611.4 m ) , the Eichelberg ( 615.5 m ), the Steinplatte ( 577.3 m ) and the Laubbuck ( 568.8 m ). At the northern edge of the forest are the Laubbichel ( 635.7 m ) and the Wülzburger Berg ( 620 m ) with the Wülzburg fortress .
history
The Weißenburg city forest, which was given by Ludwig the Bavarian in 1338 as compensation for the previous pledges in 1315, 1325 and 1330, was enlarged in 1350 by a further donation by Charles IV as the basis for the use of the districts "Laubenbuch" and "Segel". The forest was the main economic factor in the city. Between 1816 and 1827 the citizens tried to divide the forest area among themselves. In 1821 King Maximilian I left the entire forest to the city to Joseph . In 1834 and then in the course of the municipal reform between 1972 and 1978, the forest area was enlarged. In 1995 the city acquired around 50 hectares from rural property.
nature
Climate and flora
The annual average temperature in the Weißenburger Stadtwald is 7 ° C; the annual precipitation 750 millimeters. Around half of all tree species are spruce , around a third beech . There are poor grasslands in the forest .
Protected areas and natural monuments
In the Weißenburger Stadtwald there are part of the nature reserve protection zone in the nature park Altmühltal ( CDDA -Nr. 396115; designated 1995; 1632.9606 km² ). In the north there are parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area bat winter quarters in the southern Franconian Jura (FFH No. 6932-371; 7.97 ha ), and in the south lies the FFH area Schambachtal with side valleys (FFH No. 7031 -373; 2.0738 km²).
In the forest there are several objects designated as natural monuments (ND); these include: the ND Steinbrüchlein (at the Schroppenwinkel ), the ND Hohe Tanne (northeast of Haardt ), an ND (southwest of Haardt) near the Haardtzipfel and the ND Dachsbaufelsen (southeast of Dettenheim ).
various
There are several quarries in the Weißenburger Stadtwald, for example on Steinberg, where marble is quarried. The Weissenburg Mountain Forest Theater is located on the northern edge . In the forest there are several burial mounds from different epochs. The Weissenburg War Memorial is located in the forest . In the southwest there are ski jumps of the Weißenburg line .
Traffic and walking
While a Roman road used to lead through the Weißenburg city forest, it is now criss-crossed by numerous roads and paths: Bundesstraße 13 (Weißenburg - Laubenthal - Rothenstein ) divides the forest area from northwest to southeast . State road St 2228 (Weißenburg – Oberhochstatt) runs along the northern edge . State road 2216 ( Schambach - Suffersheim ) borders the area in the south . The district road WUG 12 (B 13 – Suffersheim) runs in the southeast of the forest . Federal road 2 (Schambach – Dettenheim – Weißenburg) leads past to the west . The side roads in the forest include the Weißenburg – Haardt – Suffersheim road running in a north-north-west-south-south- east direction and the Dettenheim – Haardt road that begins on the B 2 in a west-east direction. A number of footpaths and cycle paths lead through the forest, including the Main-Donau-Weg and the Frankenweg .
literature
- Daniel Burger : The right to hunt in the Weissenburg Forest from the Middle Ages to 1850. In: Christof Paulus (ed.): Perspectives of a European regional history. Festschrift for Wolfgang Wüst on the occasion of his 60th birthday (Journal of the Historisches Verein für Schwaben, Vol. 106), Augsburg 2014, pp. 145–160 (with further references).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Weißenburger Stadtwald , on weissenburg.de; see also Daniel Burger in the literature section above
- ↑ a b Topographical map : Weißenburger Wald , on the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
- ^ Franz Tichy: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
Web links
- Topographic map : Weißenburger Wald , on the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( references )
Coordinates: 49 ° 0 ′ 24.3 " N , 10 ° 59 ′ 51.8" E