Sachsenwald

The Saxon Forest is one of the two unincorporated areas of Schleswig-Holstein. The other is beech wood in a circle Segeberg. It is located east of Hamburg in the southwest of the Duchy of Lauenburg and adjacent to the Stormarn.

• 2.1 Roads and paths
• 2.2 Rail transport
• 2.3 Neighbouring communities

Geography

The Saxon Forest is the largest contiguous forest area of ​​nearly 70 square kilometers of Schleswig-Holstein. He is the Official High Elbgeest associated, unincorporated community. He belongs to the central region Geesthacht and corresponds to the district of Saxony Forest.

The Saxon Forest is divided into three areas:

• Area Aumuehle
• Area Wohltorf
• Rod pond area

The living space directory Schleswig -Holstein to the state May 25, 1987 ( census ) lists in the field on six residential areas, all uninhabited:

• On giant bed
• Copper mill
• Saupark
• Rod pond
• Game park
• Witzhaver Fourth

The inhabited parts of the Forstgutsbezirks Saxony forest belong to the community as enclaves Aumuehle.

By the Saxons forest flows from east to west, the Black Au, which is cut at Friedrichsruh in the moraines landscape. Along the northwestern border of the territory flows the river Bille, in the case Aumuehle the Black Au leads.

The Saxons forest consists mainly of deciduous forest, however, the forestry embossing to. There is still a rare stock of an oak Hutewaldes.

The whole valley of the Bille is a nature reserve and reported as FFH area.

Land use

The area consists to 94 percent from forest to almost three percent of agricultural land and to three percent of the traffic area (including roads, paths and places):

Traffic

Streets and roads

The Saxon Forest is an important recreational area for Hamburg. In the north, east and south it is surrounded by busy streets, and in the west it borders on the outskirts of Hamburg.

About Local roads in the Saxon Forest are:

• A24 (4 km from east to west in the northern part )
• B404 (5.5 km from Kasseburg in the north to Schwarzenbek in the southeast in the eastern area )
• Road L 208, the Saxons forest road (10 km from Grande in the north to Kröppelshagen driving village in the south in the western area )
• Road L 314 (6 km from Aumuehle in the west to that village in the south in the western area, junction with the L 208 at Friedrichsruh )

There are also notified local paths and forest roads as

• Schlossweg
• Witzhaver Fourth
• Lime avenue
• Börnsener way
• King avenue
• Börnsener Miihlenweg
• Baumweg
• Saupark
• Rod pond
• Radekamp
• Rod pond Horst

And several hiking trails.

Rail transport

• The area is intersected by the Route number 100 Hamburg, Schwerin and Rostock from east to west, on the upside the regional train R20. Nahe stops are Aumuehle, Friedrichsruh and Schwarzenbek.
• The S - 21 Elbgaustraße Aumuehle ends at the stop Aumuehle.

Neighboring communities

The neighboring municipalities in order of clockwise are:

• Kuddewörde
• Kasseburg
• Möhnsen
• Havekost
• Grove
• Schwarzenbek
• Brunstorf
• Dassendorf
• Kröppelshagen driving village
• Börnsen
• Wentorf
• Wohltorf
• Aumuehle

• Reinbek
• Witzhave
• Grande

History

The Saxon Forest is the remnant of a vast primeval forest, consisting mainly of oaks and beeches, which stretched from the Baltic to Lower Saxony. Since the Stone Age humans settled in the area of the forest by creating small clearings for fields and used the forest to pig.

The oldest evidence of a firm settlement of the Saxon Forest and the territory of Hamburg have been dated to the 4th century BC. As in Hamburg for a witness megalithic prehistoric settlement.

People began in the first centuries of our era, the jungle to clear a large area so that he in the late Middle Ages - was virtually disappeared - until the Saxons forest.

In the Middle Ages the ownership of the Saxon Forest was sought after and after a bitter dispute with the dukes of Saxe- Lauenburg came with the Treaty of pearl mountain in 1420, one half of the Saxon Forest to the Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck, which this share with Geesthacht and Vierlanden of their both urban headquarters Bergedorf from managed.

Due to the Gastein Convention Lauenburg and thus the Saxon Forest came to Prussia.

Kaiser Wilhelm I gave Otto von Bismarck on June 24, 1871 in the Saxon Forest in recognition of his services to the Empire. The forest is still mostly in the possession of his descendants. In 2003, the shipowner Eberhard von Rantzau acquired one-third of Saxony Forest by the family of Bismarck.

Precursor of the unincorporated territory of Saxony was the forest Forstgutsbezirk Schwarzenbek, so named after the commune in the southeast Schwarzenbek. This formerly belonged to the district of Friedrichsruh, the Duchy of Lauenburg and was larger than the present territory of 73.69 km ². At the census of December 1, 1910 916 inhabitants were counted in Forstgutsbezirk Schwarzenbek. On 1 July 1927, the Gutsbezirk Schwarzenbek was renamed Gutsbezirk Friedrichsruh.

As part of the resolution of the estate districts in Prussia 1928/29, the Gutsbezirk Friedrichsruh was dissolved with effect from 30 September 1929. An area of ​​14.46 km ², including all the inhabited areas were incorporated into surrounding communities, and of the remaining portion of 59.23 km ² of forest Forstgutsbezirk Saxony was formed. The community directory of 1950, the area is detected only with an area of ​​58.55 km ², and since 1961 with the current area of ​​58.49 km ².

The Saxon Forest was incorporated on 27 November 1967 in the newly established Office Aumuehle - Wohltorf, which also included the communities Aumuehle and Wohltorf. The Office Aumuehle - Wohltorf was disbanded as part of the reform of administrative structures in Schleswig-Holstein on 1 January 2008 and eingeamtet its components in the Office of High Elbgeest.

The Gutsvorsteher of Saxony Forest is as mayors of the municipalities of the Office of the High Elbgeest Member Official Committee but shall have no vote. A court sought clarification of the controversial issue of voting rights was unnecessary by a change of the official order.

Attractions

• Castle Friedrichsruh with Bismarck-Museum and Mausoleum (lock not public)
• Garden of butterflies in Friedrichsruh ( seasonally open)
• Climbing
• Federal Direct Otto von Bismarck Foundation in the station of Friedrichsruh
• The Saxon Forest is a popular recreation area for hamburgers, but also a tourist attraction.
• Hunebeds "Age Hau "