Stumpfwald

The stump forest is part of the northern Palatinate Forest in the south of Rhineland- Palatinate. The 150 km ² area is largely attributable to the Nordpfalz and extends from west to east within the boundaries of the municipalities Enkenbach- Alsenborn (Landkreis Kaiserslautern) and Ramsen ( Donnersbergkreis ). There was the stump Waldgericht, an ancient place of judgment, and the museum stump forest path name.

Geography and Geology

The slightly mountainous and ravines crisscrossed in all directions forest area has an average height of about 400 m above sea level. NHN. Of the rivers of the upper stump Forest Rein has the strongest inflow to the Bockenbach.

Geologically the stump forest builds - like most of the Palatine hill country - mainly from red sandstone on which is about 250 million years (transition Permian / Triassic) in the former Germanic Basin trained windverblasenem desert sand. Together with the west (beyond the Alsenz ) adjacent Otter Bergerbos the area by some geoscientists is also called Lower Palatinate Forest. In the north it descends to the valley of Pfrimm, which flows into the Rhine at Worms, in the east it borders on the distinctive Leininger spur ( 516 m), on the south by the Diemersteiner forest and the upper reaches of Isenach.

Opened to motor traffic is the area by the provincial road 395, which leads upward from Ramsenthal on Rein sink after Bach. Directly on the southern edge of the motorway is 6 (Mannheim -Saarbrücken ), five to ten miles to the north highway 63 ( Kaiserslautern Mainz). The originally running parallel to the main road Eistalbahn of Green City to sink Bach Alsenborn was reactivated after the closure of the section Green City Eiswoog and mainly serves the leisure services.

History

Name

Documents from the years 765 and 1330 called the area " Stamp ", in the years 1357, 1494 and 1596, however, " ramming ". The word designated site locations where it was necessary to go because of the very steep slopes with stomping steps. Unaware of the word origin later it changed to the name stump forest.

Legal developments

The Beholzungsrechte of the forest have already been written in 1390 Stumpfwaldweistum. You survived not only the late Middle Ages, but also larger change of rule in the ensuing centuries. Thus took place after the French Revolution in 1797, the allocation to the territory of France, after Napoleon 's final defeat in 1816 from the Kingdom of Bavaria. Even up to the present time the rights will continue to apply.

In particular, the inhabitants of the Nine Märker - nine communities whose districts successively adjacent to the Rein - were allowed to supply them with timber in the stump wood. These were Mertesheim, Green City, Assel Home, Mülheim, Albsheim, Heidenheim, Colgenstein, Obrigheim and Obersülzen. Other holders of such rights were the inhabitants of Ramsen, Hettenleidelheim, Eisenberg and Stauf, because these communities belonged to the monastery Ramsen or to rule Stauf, the ownership of the forest stump shared. Residents of Wattenheim had only Beholzungsrecht if they could call their own, a " cattle trailer ."

The French state, the Kingdom of Bavaria and the Federal Republic of Germany repeatedly tried in vain to gain ownership of the stump wood. Last 1989 prevailed in a dispute on the Association was founded after the Second World War, the rights at stump forest communities ( Neunmärkerei ) and successfully fought by the state of Rhineland -Palatinate the issuance of forest income in the amount of 420,000 DM as well as the community Wattenheim their share demanded thereon, wanted the Nine Märker by court clarified know whether the forest management with tractors instead of draft animals at all fall under the old Weistum. In 1990, a settlement was reached which involved the Wattenheimer on the return, but the question of a draft animal versus tractor left open.

Attractions

Attractions in the stump wood are the museum stump forest railway, three bridges of regional Eistalbahn, the Eiswoog Reservoir and the stump Waldgericht.