Moos (mountain)

View from Reichenbach direction Mooskopf

View from Moosturmbdep2

The moss is a mountain range in the Middle Black Forest. The highest elevations are the 877.5 m above sea level. NHN Siedigkopf high and 871.2 m above sea level. NHN high Mooskopf, actually Geisschleifkopf. The moss is the local mountain of Gengenbach and Oppenau.

The moss separates the Rench valley in east-west direction from the Kinzig. At the same time their spring in north-south direction, the former Free Reichstal Harmersbach and Nordrachtal.

Due to the formerly dense and dark forest cover the moss is the site of numerous myths and legends figures. Recurring main character here is the moss Pfaff, a former monk of the Monastery of All Saints, is said to have lost on the way to an extreme unction, the host, and now working around and mislead people, until he had found the host.

The fictional character Simplicius Simplicissimus by Johann Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausenmuseum to which a memorial, lives in the novel The Adventurous Simplicissimus during the Thirty Years' War a number of years on the moss:

"I dwelt on a high mountains, called the moss, as a piece of the Black Forest and overgrown everywhere with a dark pine forest; of the same, I had a nice look eastward in the Oppenauer valley and its side prongs; at noon in the Kinziger valley and the county Geroldseck, allwo the same high lock between its neighboring mountains has the reputation as the king in a fitted skittles; toward the west I could see the upper and lower Alsace, and at midnight the Niedern Margraviate of Baden on the Rhine down which area the city of Strasbourg hervorpranget decided with its high cathedral tower as it were like the heart in the middle with a body "

On the Mooskopf is the Built in 1890, Moos Tower, an observation tower, which is maintained by the Black Forest Association.

The hurricane Lothar, on 26 December 1999 the moss and Siedigkopf serious damage to. Prior to the summit were dense forested with high- spruce and fir trees, so that from the observation tower hardly a view over the treetops was possible. After the storm has completely destroyed the trees, grows in place of the former monoculture approach a much more colorful and richer types of forest. On the Siedigkopf there is a monument that commemorates the hurricane.

Grimmelshausenmuseum Memorial

Lothar monument