Willow fountain (Waldstein)

Granite stone at the crossroads with an altitude of 764 m above sea level and display of the cardinal points

High path with a view of the hiking car park

The willow fountain is a spring in the Sparneck community and a natural monument in the Hof district .

The source is located in the Sparnecker Forest at a radial crossroads, near the village of Reinersreuth and the Kleiner Waldstein , between Bergkopf and Großem Waldstein at 760  m above sea level. NN . There the high path runs through the Sparnecker forest. The Reutberg quarry is located in the southwest. The Bayreuth Water Management Office and the Bavarian State Office for Water Management operate a long-term hydrological measuring point at the Weidenbrunnen. Immediately afterwards is the forest office's plant garden and some forest meadows. The water from the willow fountain flows westwards towards Reinersreuth and feeds the Saale via the calf ditch .

literature

• Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 , p. 744 .

Web links

Commons : Weidenbrunnen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Description of the Fichtelgebirgsverein
• Historical map ( Bavarian first recording ) in the BayernAtlas

Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 38 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 44 ″  E