Wolfsschlucht (Baden-Baden)
| Wolfsschlucht | |||
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 Footpath through the Wolfsschlucht natural monument |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Pass height | 372.5 m | ||
| country | Baden-Württemberg | ||
| Watershed | Rotenbach → Oos | Selbach → Murg | |
| Valley locations | Baden-Baden | Gaggenau | |
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| Coordinates | 48 ° 46 '36 " N , 8 ° 16' 44" E | ||
The Wolfsschlucht is a rocky gorge below Ebersteinburg in Baden-Württemberg . It is located in the northern Black Forest , northeast of the saddle ( 372.5 m above sea level ), which lies between Merkur in the south and the Ebersteinburger Schlossberg or Battert in the north. The state road L79a, which connects the Oostal near Baden-Baden with the Murgtal near Gaggenau-Selbach , runs over the saddle . The saddle and the road connection, which has gradients of up to 15%, are colloquially referred to as the Wolf's Gorge .
The Wolfsschlucht is a geotope and one of six geological natural monuments in the Baden-Baden district and is accessible via a hiking trail. Just below the saddle, the Selbach valley drops steeply to the east. At about 360 m above sea level. NN , rock formations from the Upper Rotliegend , arkoses and porphyry conglomerates emerge from the forest floor, which form imposing rocks due to silicification . Other rock formations in the vicinity are the Burned Rock a few hundred meters northeast of the Wolfsschlucht, the Engelskanzel and Teufelskanzel west of the pass and the Battertfelsen .
It is often assumed that the setting served the composer Carl Maria von Weber as a template for his opera Der Freischütz , which premiered in 1821 . However, since the gorge was not given this name until later, this hypothesis is controversial. However, Weber is said to have got to know the gorge in 1810 during one of his stays in Baden-Baden and at that time also read a legend called "The Wolf's Gorge". Other gorges of the same name are said to have inspired weavers, such as the Wolf Gorge near Zwingenberg .
Web links
- Geotope profile (PDF, 363 kByte) on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( information )
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to traffic signs on both driveways.
- ^ Manfred Schöttle: Geological natural monuments in the administrative district of Karlsruhe . Ed .: State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg. 2000, ISBN 3-88251-079-X , ISSN 0949-0256 , pp. 127–128 ( lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de (PDF; 5.8 MB) [accessed on June 20, 2010]).
- ^ Heinrich Berl: Baden-Baden in the age of romanticism . Baden-Baden 1936, p. 172 ff . ( bad-bad.de [accessed June 20, 2010]).