Zastler hole

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Upper area of ​​the Zastler Loch with remains of the cornices (June 2013)

The Zastler Loch or Zastlerkar on the north side of the Feldberg summit in the Black Forest is the highest cirque in a German low mountain range . It forms the end of the Zastler valley, in which the Zastlerbach flows northwards to the Dreisam .

geology

View from the edge of the Kars to the lower Karboden at the Zastler Hütte

The Zastler Loch is a stair cirque with three heavily cut cirque floors, at 1400 meters, one heavily damaged at 1320 meters and a well-preserved one at 1250 meters, which are connected by rockfalls. The cirque is a relic of the former Feldberg glacier . The lower floor has received the old hollow shape and is completely muddy. This moor east of the Zastler Hütte is about 100 meters long and 40 meters wide. The moor is closed off on the right flank of the rock by a twelve meter high arched pseudo wall. This consists of gneiss with overlying terminal moraine material . Between the wall and the rock face there is a small depression two meters deep, which was presumably formed by a small ice stream from the gully southeast of it. The height difference between the lower Karboden and the upper edge of the rock faces is 150 to 200 meters. Glacier cut can be seen on the exposed rocks around the Zastler Hütte .

Nature and culture

The Zastler Loch is the headwaters of the Zastlerbach . In winter can cornices and avalanches form on the Karhängen. Sometimes the snow lasts well into summer. Around 1840, when there was a cold spell in Europe, the inhabitants of the eastern and northern Feldberg area hacked the snow patches to the ground because they feared the Feldberg would glaciate. There has been pasture operation in Zastler Loch since 1651. The cattle hut is now a gastronomic business. In addition, since 1952 is the Freiburger hut of the ski club Freiburg . Also kiln sites were detected in Zastler hole.

The Zastler Loch is part of the Feldberg nature reserve and is one of the most valuable plant sites there. In the 1960s, an initiative by members of the Black Forest Association and the Black Forest Homeland Protection Working Group prevented the planned opening of a cable car for skiing operations.

Slope in the Zastler Loch after an avalanche

Accidents and victims

  • On February 23, 1941, an avalanche buried three skiers in the Zastler Loch. The rescue team was buried in another avalanche, in which the mountain guard Fritz Nübling from Freiburg died.
  • On February 2, 1953, a corn tore a 54-year-old skier from Heidelberg to his death.
  • On January 20, 1959, a woman from Düsseldorf studying in Freiburg was also killed because of a corn.
  • On January 9, 1966, the body of the mountain guard Walter Wernet from Kirchzarten was recovered, who had died a few days earlier in a slab.
  • Almost at the same place on March 9, 1980, the 28-year-old Freiburg lieutenant in the mountain troops Wolfgang Ehret was killed in a large slab of snow.
  • On January 30, 2015, two touring ski hikers got caught in an avalanche near the cornice above the Zastler Hütte and were buried. While one of the two was able to free himself, a 20-year-old man from Freiburg was only found less than two hours after the accident. Despite the resuscitation , he died later that afternoon.

literature

  • Ekkehard Liehl: The Zastler Loch, the core of the subalpine nature reserve Feldberg. In: Communications of the Badisches Landesverein für Naturkunde und Naturschutz eV , Freiburg i. Br .; NF 9: Heft 1, 1966 pp. 1-10 ( online ).
  • Regional council Freiburg (ed.): The Feldberg - Subalpine island in the Black Forest. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-0757-8 , p. 46 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ernst M. Wallner: Zastler , self-published by the municipality of Oberried, district Zastler, 1991, p. 16
  2. ^ Bernhard Metz, Helmut Saurer: Geomorphology and landscape development. In: Regional Council Freiburg (Hrsg.): The Feldberg - Subalpine island in the Black Forest. Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2012, ISBN 978-3-7995-0757-8 , p. 47.
  3. ↑ August Vetter: Feldberg im Schwarzwald , self-published by the community of Feldberg (Black Forest), 1996, p. 481
  4. ↑ August Vetter: Feldberg im Schwarzwald , self-published by the community of Feldberg (Black Forest), 1996, p. 63
  5. ↑ August Vetter: Feldberg im Schwarzwald , self-published by the community of Feldberg (Black Forest), 1996, p. 357
  6. ↑ August Vetter: Feldberg im Schwarzwald , self-published by the community of Feldberg (Black Forest), 1996, p. 173
  7. ^ Stefan Büchner and Bernd-Jürgen Seitz: Nature conservation and tourism on the Feldberg . In: Regional Council Freiburg (Hrsg.): The Feldberg - Subalpine island in the Black Forest. P. 438 f.
  8. ↑ August Vetter: Feldberg im Schwarzwald , self-published by the community of Feldberg (Black Forest), 1996, p. 367f.
  9. ↑ Feldberg / Herzogenhorn: Two people die in avalanche accidents in the Black Forest - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved January 31, 2015 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 47 ° 52 ′ 35 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 34.9"  E