Hahnenkamm (Spessart)

The Hahnenkamm seen from Moembris - Kleinhemsbach from

The Hahnenkamm is 435 m above sea level. Sea level, the highest elevation in the territory Vorspessart the Bavarian Lower Main.

Description

At the foot of the Hahnenkamm, the city Alzenau with the districts Hörstein, Waterless, Kälberau and Michel Bach, as well as the market town Moembris with the district Hemsbach lie. These districts extend to below the Hahnenkamm peak. The summit itself lies on the territory of the former market town Hörstein, which was incorporated in 1975 to Alzenau. The area around the Hahnenkamm is a popular destination for mountain bikers and hikers.

The Ludwigsturm

The 16 meter high tower Ludwig (position ) 50.0782419.109688, on the summit of the mountain, is the emblem of the Hahnenkamm. It was built by Freigerichter collar which makes earned since 1876 as one of the oldest walking clubs in the region to tourism, in 1880 under the patronage of the Bavarian King Ludwig II. The occasion was celebrated in the same year, the 700th anniversary of the reign of the Wittelsbach family.

Already 40 years earlier had celebrated on the Hahnenkamm on August 25, his 54th birthday, his predecessor Ludwig I..

Owner of the building is still the Freigerichter federal government today. 1883 was built a first refuge of this club on the Hahnenkamm, in place of today's trip is local.

In 1935 was overgrown by tall forest -down views of the platform ( 63 steps ); an increase by a further 22 steps was performed. 2004, the dilapidated tower was renovated. The upper deck at the top of the Hahnenkamm allowed in good weather again today a panoramic view:

  • North across Geiselbach and Omersbach away up in the Vogelsberg with the baptismal font, 50 km away (773 m),
  • To the east in the Spessart; 30 km away is the Vulture's Peak ( 586 m),
  • To the south of the Main valley, the Kahler Lakeland, Kahl am Main, Karlstejn a.Main, Blessed City; on the Odenwald is the Melibokus to recognize ( 517.4 m) in 52 km distance,
  • West on Alzenau with its hamlets Kälberau, Michel Bach and Albstadt; on the Main to one recognizes the power plant Staudinger Grosskrotzenburg. In the distance the skyline of Frankfurt am Main and the heights of the Taunus lie with the 50- km away Great Feldberg ( 879 m).

Transmission Towers

At the top of the Hahnenkamm, there are two transmission towers a slender 63 -meter-high tower in precast concrete construction and a lower thick free-standing steel framework tower which served as RV site of the warning service. From the Editor Hahnenkamm the program of Radio Primavera is radiated with 200 W ERP to 90.8 MHz and Radio Galaxy Aschaffenburg program with 250 W ERP to 103.6 MHz. He is also a location for existing and planned DAB broadcasts.

Geology and Nature

The ridge is predominantly of quartz-bearing rocks ( mica schist, quartzite, shale) built and due to the very thin layer of humus high risk of erosion. At the eastern Hahnenkamm back, the so-called High Mark this material has been exploited for decades in a now disused quarry at the quarry Hemsbach. In the meantime, has formed on the bottom of the quarry by inflowing groundwater and precipitation water of a mountain lake, because after the operation at the end of the break water drainage has been set. The oligotrophic waters serves as a spawning ground for amphibians, for example, Toads.

A striking view point represents represent those " Oak " This centuries -old oak is already hollowed out by multiple lightning inside, but still defying the stormy winds over the mountain ridge.

The forest on the Hahnenkamm has been used since the Middle Ages for the extraction of firewood, by Köhler and pitch boilers. Computerized measurements of the Senckenberg Institute in Biebergemünd have shown that the tree line has over the meadows and pasture landscape in Kahlgrund hardly changed in subsequent centuries. In the 19th century, there was controversy because of overuse; 1840, the district was divided between the municipalities and Hörstein Kälberau. Extensive reforestation by fast-growing coniferous trees - pine, larch and spruce - were necessary.

In the future the proportion of deciduous trees - oak, beech - are raised again to 40%. The site was explained on the basis of the Bavarian Forest Act of 1975 by the Regional Plan, Bavarian Lower Main (December 2002) to the protected forest, ie Clearings are permitted only in exceptional cases. It should only be used as much wood as can grow in the forest; to a surface is scoured just about every ten years.

Mountain lake in the former quarry Hemsbach

The Hemsbacher quarry at the Highmark

Erosion Endangered Gipfelweg

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