Blauen (Badenweiler)

Blue from the south

The Blue or Hochblauen is 1164.7 m above sea level. NHN high mountain on the western edge of the southern Black Forest. The summit is at an intersection of the districts Schliengen and Malsburg- Marzell in the district of Lörrach and Badenweiler in the district of Breisgau in the Black Forest. The Blue is a scenic mountain and is considered a mountain of Margravian, which he dominated. From lying on its northern foot spa resort of Badenweiler the peak is about three miles away and accessible via a driveway. The core of the Blue massif forms a unterkarbonischer Malsburg granite. The blue peak is composed of gneiss. The forest ranges on the rainy mountain to below the summit.

Name

In the 14th century the mountain is mentioned as Blauwen or Blawen documented. Matthäus Merian Topographia Sueviae called him mid-17th century as Hoche Blawen. The district plan of the first Baden land survey of 1769/1770 distinguishes between the high and the blue background Blue, a 700 m north- northeast of the main summit located 1087 meters high secondary summit. As a Blue M [ ons ] of the mountain in the Black Forest map of the monastery of St. Blaise is registered from 1788. Also in the Topographic Atlas over the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1845 he is called Blue, as well as in other geographical publications of the 19th century. In addition, can be found among others in the travel literature of the 19th century also repeated the name Hochblauen, partly with the statement, this serves to distinguish it from Zeller Blue twelve kilometer journey. However, the designation Hochblauen was for the latter also common and noted in maps, while the mountain to Badenweiler is to be found today in Blue in the cards.

The name Blue Mountains and carry various places in Germany and Switzerland. In his Upper German place names book presented the cultural historian Michel Buck 1880 a connection to the historic mining engineering at the Blue forth by suggesting an origin of the name of, Bla '= smelter. Another interpretation of the name takes the blue color of pine forests or the bluish appearance of a mountain from afar as a starting point.

Landscape protection areas

Am Blauen meet three protected landscape areas meet:

The protected landscape area Blue on the south side of the mountain in 1983 reported on areas of the municipalities Kandern, Schliengen and Malsburg- Marzell. It covers 4,119 hectares with a predominantly mixed forest companies and larger pastures that have arisen through medieval clearings. It is described as " unique recreational landscape ".

To the north it borders on the conservation area Markgraefler hills and adjacent western southern Black Forest. This is 5,840 hectares in size and has been recorded in areas of the municipalities Auggen, Badenweiler, garbage home and Sulzburg 2005.

The smallest with 399 ha of the three protected landscape areas, Lipburg, situated in the west of the Blue and belongs to Badenweiler. It includes a typical valley landscape at the transition area from the foothills of the Black Forest and has an important recreational function for the space Badenweiler / Garbage home.

Development

The high blue road was opened to private cars in 1928. She leaves about half the distance to the district Freiburg- high Black Forest, in its northwestern area therefore it is called K 4948, in the southeastern part it is, however, under the number 6314 K, there is the road maintenance Wollbach responsible. The removal in winter takes over the road maintenance waste home on the whole route, under an agreement between the counties. The road leads to the summit. Since 2011, during the summer months is a bus service that connects the summit on Sundays and feast days Marzell and Kandern with Basel. In addition, the western route, a long distance trail in the Black Forest Club runs on the 280- kilometer route from Pforzheim to Basel in the variant A over the Blues.

Between 1957 and 1980, a land consolidation in the mountain forest was carried out in which, after extensive and costly surveying small 42 were merged into twelve larger plots. For the remembrance of this, a memorial stone was erected, which identifies the names of all parties since 2007 on a brass plaque.

At the top, the Berghaus Hochblauen is (also called Blue House ), a restaurant with accommodation; November to March rests the hotel business, it is only a snack ready. In the summer of 2013, the inn is closed. After specifying the owner stands in 2014 at a conversion.

The catering operation on the blue was incorporated in the year 1872, when a covered forest tavern was built. In June 1875 the first house was opened, which bore the name of the Blue Crown. It was founded in 1890 and again from 1965 to 1966 expanded to meet the increasing tourism. The water line from 1898 to 150 meters below source is used to this day. Since 1925, when a cable was brought here from Marzell, there is at the summit also electricity. Three years later, drove the first motor vehicles on the mountain road up.

A lookout tower was built in 1895 instead of a slightly lower timber tower dating back to 1875 from the Black Forest club in steel truss design. It was inaugurated on 30 August 1895, restored in 1984 fundamentally with the financial support of the Federal Post Office. The original 14 -meter-high tower with antenna today a total height of 21 meters. It is accessible at all times. 1985 hundred yards south-southeast of the observation tower of the telecommunications tower was built transmitter Blue. He is not open to the public and affects the view from the observation tower of the Alps.

Northeast of Hochblauen situated at an altitude of 1074 meters, the highest castle probably place in Baden-Württemberg, the castle Stockberg.

Since the summer of 2011 will be discussed to establish a wind turbine with three wind turbines to generate electricity on the Blue.

Transmitter Blue

The observation tower in winter

View from the lookout to the south

Aerial view of Blue Summit

View

The Hochblauen provides vantage points overlooking the Black Forest with the bare tip of the Ballon d', the Vosges Mountains to the Grand Ballon, the Swiss Jura and the Alps.

Before the law can be seen on a clear Basel.

Due to its location at the edge of the Black Forest of Hochblauen allows for remarkable views down the Rhine rift with the emperor chair.

Sports

The Blue is a popular destination with hikers, mountain bikers and paragliders, which can often be seen on its south ramp.

Since 1993, there is usually every year in June held Hochblauen Mountain Run, in which several hundred athletes participating.

1933 ski jump was built on the blue. Until 1939 it the Blue - jumping was held. The record in the non -hazardous sports held Oskar Faller from Breitnau, who had jumped 35 meters " on skis made ​​of wood with leather bindings ". In addition, both alpine and nordic skiing was gone.

Art

Among the artists who have their impressions and experiences with the Blue processed in her work, including the painter Emil Bizer, Adolf Strübe, remember the pictures on the display of the Montagne Sainte- Victoire at Cézanne, and Hermann Daur, more recently, Roland Franke. Some pictures can be seen in Markgraefler Museum. August Macke lived temporarily in Kandern and mentioned the Blue in letters to his future wife, Elizabeth. Among the writers who wrote about the Hochblauben include Johann Peter Hebel, the dialect poet Lina Kromer, the Kanderner regional poet Ida Preusch -Müller, Manfred Marquardt, Gustav Schwab, René Schickele and the Basel writer Rainer Bramstedt.