Anspach pond

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Anspach pond

The Anspach pond is a nature reserve in Neu-Anspach in the Hochtaunus district .

The nature reserve

The nature reserve with a size of 3.68 hectares was placed under protection in 1986.

It is mainly located in the district of Anspach and partly that of Arnoldshain . It is a meadow of the Aubach below the Klingenberg ( Lage ).

The field name

The field name im weyer grundt (weyer = meadow) was first handed down in 1744.

The Opel hunting lodge

Opel hunting lodge 1916

Immediately south of the nature reserve are the ruins of the Opel hunting lodge ( location ). The hunting lodge was built from 1909 by the architect Alfred Engelhard (1867–1941) for Fritz Opel . Today the house is in ruins .

In 1909 Fritz Opel bought the hunt in the Anspach hunting area (1,800 hectares) for 9,600 marks (around € 57,000 in today's purchasing power). The neoclassical castle villa was built in 1912. Fritz Opel was the leaseholder of the hunt until his death in 1938. His widow Martha purchased the property and the building in October 1939 for 75,000 Reichsmarks (around € 322,000 in today's purchasing power). The hunt was given to her nephew Georg von Opel , who later founded the Opel Zoo . After the Second World War , the property was confiscated by the American occupying forces on August 24, 1946 and used as a branch of the US Military Intelligence Group stationed in Oberursel ( Camp King ). This quartered former German officers of the reconnaissance unit "Foreign Army East". In 1950 the Americans stopped using it. The house has been empty since then and is falling into disrepair.

At the beginning of the 1950s, a wooden hut was built next to the villa for the German flight captain Hanna Reitsch . She was previously interned in Camp King in Oberursel and now lived temporarily in the Anspach Forest under an alias.

  • Opel hunting lodge 1916

  • Opel hunting lodge 1916, inside

  • Opel Hunting Lodge 2015

  • Garage building

Isabellengrube

To the north of the nature reserve on the west side of the Weihergrund (i.e. in the Arnoldshain area) there was a mine for the extraction of iron ore, the Isabellengrube ( Lage ). The first operators were the Herren von Reifenberg , who died out in the male line in 1686. See also the list of mines in the Taunus .

Web links

Commons : Weihergrund von Anspach  - collection of images, videos and audio files

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ordinance on the nature reserve "Weihergrund von Anspach" of November 24, 1986 . In: Higher nature conservation authority (ed.): State gazette for the state of Hesse. 1986 No. 49 , p. 2335 , point 1201 ( online at the information system of the Hessian state parliament [PDF; 8.1 MB ]).
  2. ↑ "WEIHERGRUND". Hessian field names. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  3. ↑ Marc Zirlewagen: Bockenheimer Landstrasse 102, 2004, ISBN 978-3-943407-37-2 , page 62 et seq.
  4. ↑ Manfred Kopp: Reading like an open book; in: Yearbook of the Hochtaunuskreis 2011, ISBN 978-3-7973-1231-0 , p. 81
  5. ↑ Olaf Velte: Weihersgrund near Neu-Anspach - Hungarian deer and secret agents; in: Taunuszeitung from January 4, 2011, online
  6. ^ Frankfurt region, p. 19f
  7. ↑ RegioMap with cultural landscape cadastre of the FrankfurtRheinMain regional association, accessed on March 29, 2015