Brotjacklriegel

Image of the mountain from the reservoir from Rohrbach

The Brotjacklriegel is - seen from the Danube - with its 1011 m above sea level. NHN height of the first major mountain in the Bavarian Forest. At the same time he is a symbol of the sun forest region with the municipalities Schoefweg, Zenting, Innernzell, Grattersdorf and Schoellnach dar.

On the Brotjacklriegel there is a television and radio broadcasting tower of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and a smaller observation tower, which is operated by the Bavarian Forest Club.

It owes its name Brotjacklriegel a legend according to which a baker Bread Jackie, was hiding on the mountain during the Thirty Years' War. Probably the name was but it was only later during survey work of the French under Napoleon, as because of a misunderstanding of the Bavarian " Broada Jaga - bars" (wide hunter bolt ) precisely Brotjacklriegel was written.

Already in 1839 built the pastor and two restaurateurs from Langfurth there the first lookout. In 1924 on the mountain, the current 27 -meter-high structure.

On the eastern slope of the mountain located above overgrown by Daxstein Lesesteinwälle.