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| height | 991 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany | |
| Mountains | Swabian Alb | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 11 '8 " N , 8 ° 56' 44" E | |
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| rock | White Jura | |
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The Weichenwang is 988 m above sea level. NHN high mountain on the Swabian Alb in the area of Meßstetten in the southern Zollernalb district . A radar dome of the Bundeswehr has been on the mountain since 1963 ; Operations area 1 , but the place is much older as a military location. Before the radome was set up, there was already a radio listening post here. In a new, radiation-shielded service building, 20 members of the Bundeswehr are housed directly under the radome. The signals are transmitted to a bunker in the direction of Heinstetten. Since the withdrawal of the Bundeswehr fire brigade, the fire brigades from Hossingen and Meßstetten have ensured fire protection.
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"City of Wangen"
One knows fabulous memories from places gone. A town of Wangen had disappeared between Hossingen and Meßstetten. An unlocated Celtic city of Pyrene is described in ancient sources. The localization of Pyrene is linked to the special honor of the researchers to determine the oldest place mentioned in writing on the upper Danube .
Inhibitor dealers
An old legend tells of junk dealers visible at certain times. A brave Tieringer carter drove on an empty journey with men from Hausen am Tann over the Weichenwang to the Baienberg. At midnight he once called out to the junk dealers out of chance. All passengers survived the nightly haunt. The harnesses of the shy horses had to be cut off and the wagon stuck in the deep clay had to be left behind.
Approach certificates to cheeks
The place Neu-Wangenhausen (Nüwenghausen) named in 1477 could not be assigned to any other place in the Oberamt.
Approach field names to cheeks
The field names of the Weng hilltop in the military training area and Wangen near the Weichenwang radar station are promising.
Chance finds in the search area
During the construction of a Kandel (moat), Pastor Oetinger from the Meßstetter found a bronze kettle and shards not far from the switch wall. Amid the scornful laughter of the construction workers, he secured the finds and placed them in expert hands for analysis. The area was repeatedly hit by robbery excavations around 1850 .
Activities of the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities in the Search Area
Pastor Alfred Ludwig Oetinger (from 1856 to 1868 pastor in Meßstetten and Hossingen) had extensive excavations carried out initially on his own account and later on account of the State Collection of Patriotic Antiquities. The chance find was supplemented by systematic re-excavations. The extensive finds of grave goods indicate a Celtic settlement in the area of Wangen bei Weichenwang and Gräblesberg Castle . The unique find of Celtic chariot graves with preserved wooden parts and buckle-like decorative plates was documented. In 1869 it was technically not yet possible to assign the finds to the exact time. Without giving a reason, a very extensive, but rather short settlement was assumed in addition to the graves. Current state of research: In the Gewann Wangen grave group, a local burial culture can be assumed over several centuries. In 2019 Christoph Morrissey reports in the Heimatbuch: The settlement belonging to the graves near Hossingen (Gewann Wangen) is still unknown. Today the most important grave finds of the Hallstatt period in Wangen are described as follows: For several generations, socially high-ranking people seem to have been buried here. The graves of the common people can be assumed to be in simple grave pits.
"The Schimmelreiter's secret love affairs"
An old legend tells of the Schimmelreiter who secretly meets with his lover at the Weichenwang. Sometimes on stormy autumn nights at the old Burtel Castle near Hossingen, of which there are still a few remains, a white horse rider riding across the Weichenwang (Heiligenwang) should become visible. The lovers are a befitting relationship between a noble knight and the daughter of the lord of the castle. Their places of residence are said to be the castles of Hossingen and Tierberg. In 1898, Emil Schweizer incorporated the well-known version of this legend into his article from the Balingen Mountains. A vague reference can be found in an old document. On July 14, 1327, the noble servant Kunz acquired a castle near Meßstetten from the Lords of Bubenhofen . Was the lord of the castle in Hossing in trouble and had to pledge to the rich lords of Bubenhofen? Was the gray rider Kunz von Neuentierberg and did he buy his parents' castle in Hossingen for his lover? In 1442, the people priest from Meßstetten refused to worship several men because of fornication in the case of recurrence with the maid Gera Trulgestin.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Holger Much: Bat in a giant dome ( Memento from November 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) . In: Südwest Presse of October 29, 2011
- ↑ Radar
- ^ German Improved Air Defense System
- ↑ Fire protection
- ^ Hermann Bitzer teacher: The district of Balingen 1960 . Official district description. Ed .: State Statistical Office Baden-Württemberg. S. 483 .
- ^ Hermann Dreher, Koch: Der Hemmadhäddlar von Thieringen - A Diaringer Goaschtgschicht Albvereinsblätter 1903 325-328 . Ed .: Schwäbischer Albverein Stuttgart. S. 15-10 .
- ↑ Landkreis Balingen (ed.): The will . District Office Gazette June 27, 1936. Balingen.
- ^ Alfred Ludwig Oetinger: [1] . In Digi UB Uni Heidelberg: [2] from 1875, Volume 2, pp. 38-52
- ↑ Sigrid Hirbodian , Andreas Schmauder and Manfred Waßner (ed.): Community in transition . Volume 19 A city in transition The history of Meßstetten. No. 19 . Tübingen 2019, p. 33 , (1500 copies from the city of Meßstetten) .
- ↑ Home history
- ↑ Sigrid Hirbodian , Andreas Schmauder and Manfred Waßner (ed.): Community in transition . Volume 19 A city in transition The history of Meßstetten. No. 19 . Tübingen 2019, p. 37 , (1500 copies from the city of Meßstetten) .
- ↑ Emil Schweizer: Albverein leaves 10.01.1898 from Balingen mountains . Ed .: Schwäbischer Albverein Stuttgart. S. 11-13 .
- ↑ Holdings Dep 38 T1 No. 1351 on Landesarchiv-BW.de
- ↑ Tanja Gerstenecker (tag): [3] . In: Schwarzwälder Bote from October 24, 2013.
- ↑ Sigrid Hirbodian , Andreas Schmauder and Manfred Waßner (ed.): Community in transition . Volume 19 A city in transition The history of Meßstetten. No. 19 . Tübingen 2019, p. 107 .