Wolfsschlucht (field name)
Wolfsschluchtspuk. Etching by George Cruikshank for a London parody of the Freischütz.
Wolfsschlucht is the field name of deep valleys in German-speaking countries; in a geological sense, however, only a few are real canyons . Both gorge and notch valleys are regularly referred to as gorges.
Origin of name
The name Wolfsschlucht is derived in different ways, for example from an actual occurrence of wolves , howling of the wind between narrow rock faces, a hunting tactic of driving and killing wolves between rocks or from the family name wolf .
Some of these gorges are said to be the archetype of the famous Wolfsschlucht in Carl Maria von Weber's opera Der Freischütz . Occasionally they serve as a backdrop for open-air performances of this and other operas.
Examples
- in Germany
- Wolf Gorge (Zwingenberg)
- Wolfsschlucht (Baden-Baden)
- Wolfsschlucht (Hockstein) in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains near Hohnstein (Saxon Switzerland) ; the 114 m deep crevice leads into the Polenz valley
- in a side valley of the Brohl valley between Bad Tönisstein and Wassenach , formed by the Tönissteiner Bach
- in Berlin-Zehlendorf between the Schlachtensee and the Krummen Lanke
- in Waldbröl
- near Wildbad Kreuth
- Wolfsschlucht (Märkische Schweiz)
- Wolfsschlucht (Kandern)
- in downtown Kassel
- near Rottenburg am Neckar between Bad Niedernau and Schwalldorf
- in the Wiehengebirge at the Kaiser Wilhelm monument at Porta Westfalica
- in Seppenrade in the Münsterland
- in Syke im Friedeholz
- in Berlin-Zehlendorf in a glacial channel
- in Austria
- a gorge of the Kempbach in Strudengau , see Wolfsschlucht (Bad Kreuzen)
- a gorge of the Sarmingbach in Waldhausen im Strudengau shortly before the bathing lake and the town center
- in Switzerland
- on the Sonnenberg (Kriens) near Lucerne
- between Herbetswil and Welschenrohr in the Thal Regional Nature Park
- in the suburb of Bruderholz in Basel
- in Luxemburg
- in Kaliningrad Oblast
- on the north coast of Samland . Ferdinand Gregorovius describes the Wolfsschlucht in his idylls from the Baltic Shore , "which can be found (where nobody suspects them) in the famous years of traveling in Italy , but only in the now rare first edition, Leipzig 1856." ( Carl von Lorck , 1947)
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfsschlucht, Wolkenstein Switzerland. Ins-Erzgebirge.de.
- ^ Jörg-Thomas Titz: Luxemburg - Saarland. Bergverlag Rother, Munich 2007, p. 74.
- ^ Brewery of the Reif Brothers Erlangen (Erlanger Reifbräu). Erlanger.de, January 2, 2010.