Steinknickle

Steinknickle from southwest

The Steinknickle in the north of Mainhardter Forest, the Swabian- Franconian Forest

The Steinknickle is a 525 m high mountain in the northwest of the Mainhardter forest on the little room sandstone summit plateau of the truce. The mountain lies on the boundary of the hamlet Wüstenroter Neuhütten. Thanks to its convenient location on the edge Neuhüttens the Steinknickle is a popular tourist destination. Since 1995, at the foot of the tower is also a barbecue area and a children's playground.

Was built in 1913, the then municipality Neuhütten a first, 25 -meter high observation tower on the summit west of the town. 1935 took him to the Swabian Albverein. 1945 fire damaged American artillery tower. After another storm damage in 1955 and 1956, he had to be stopped in May 1956. In its place was built with the Steinknickleturm a new tower in timber construction on a concrete base, which further rises with its 30 meters something than its predecessor did. This new tower was consecrated on Ascension Day 1957; on June 3, 2007, it celebrated the 50th anniversary of its opening.

The tower offers views to the west into the Weinberger valley to the north over the Hohenlohe plain, under a clear sky to the Odenwald. To the east are part of the Waldburger mountains to see the south of the Mainhardter forest to Hohenbrach at grave, to the west of the Löwenstein mountains with the Stockberg.

At the west foot of the tower dome is not 200 meters at the beginning of the step edge down to the vast forests around the Bernbach opened in 1913, the Friends of Nature House Steinknickle, at the time the first in Württemberg. It offers four bedrooms and three dormitories overnight accommodation for about 80 people and is cultivated throughout the year on weekends by volunteers. For nature lovers home run of the train stations in Heilbronn, Obersulm - Eschenau, Öhringen and Sulzbach an der Murr specially marked trails.