Wöllmisse

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The Wöllmisse ( Wölmse dialect ) is an up to 404.8 m above sea. NHN high plateau east of the Saale valley in the independent city of Jena and in the district Saale- wood land rises in Thuringia.

Geographical Location

The wooded Wöllmisse borders the Rodatal in the south, the Jena Saale valley in the west, the Gembdenbachtal in the north and the urban area Biirgel and Gleistal in the east. In Rodigast the hills via a saddle with the formation Jenzig Horseshoe age Gleissberg is connected. The smallest height difference is in the range Schöngleina - Zinna, where the plateau gradually merges into the lower-lying levels in the direction Klosterlausnitz.

Adjacent municipalities and city and district of Jena are (clockwise starting in the north ): Großlöbichau with the hamlet of small Löbichau; the Bürgeler districts Rodigast and Lucka; Schöngleina with tin; Schlöben with the districts Mennewitz, Zöttnitz, Rabis, Fraitsch and Burgrabis, as well as the Jena Districts Ilmnitz, Drackendorf, Lobeda, Wöllnitz, goats grove Camsdorf, Little Jena, Jena Prießnitz and Wogau. Also also Trockhausen, Gröben, and Podelsatz be counted among the Wöllmisse - villages, all located at the southern foot of the ridge to Roda back.

In the southwest of Wöllmisse located at Lobeda, a Jena district, the ruins of the 1166 first mentioned Lobdeburg.

On the eastern part of the plateau is the airfield Jena Schöngleina.

Mountains

In addition to the closed high plateau of Wöllmisse with a height of about 405 m, there are several mountain projections formed by valleys. The largest are the core mountains and the Jena House Mountain and the Johannisberg in the West. They protrude about a maximum of 250 m above the Saale valley. The most important mountains are the amount of:

• Kernberge ( 391.6 m), southeast of Jena ( center ) Hummelberg ( 375.2 m), north of Wöllnitz

History

In 1856, a major hoard was discovered from the Hallstatt period near the Vorwerkes Fraitsch, which as a " hoard of Schlöben " is received. This proves that was already inhabited 2500 to 3000 years ago, the Wöllmisse.

The mountain range is specifically mentioned for the first time in 1349 as " Welmuse ". For the landscape, as well as names for the place name Wöllnitz, which is closely connected with the Wöllmisse, there are two interpretations:

• The name derives from a " Velnica " from the Slavic " vel ", which means clearing.
• The name is derived from the Old High German word " walmiso " which means humid mountain forest.

According to legend, there has been in the forests of Wöllmisse a forest lady, who rode on a white deer. A hunter wanted to shoot the animal, but he missed the deer. Since then, said to have been killed on the heights not a single piece of game more.

Previously, there were a number of other settlements in the area of ​​Wöllmisse. 1471 is the deserted village Drauschwitz near Mennewitz in a charter of the monastery of Roda. The church of the village received was not received for several centuries. Another deserted village, by the far, however, there are no written documents, hunger village is in the district Großlöbichau. It is only revealed through the corridor designations. Possibly. here is one of the three in Biirgel 's Erbzinsregister to tap from 1485-92 mentioned " Löbichau ".

More abandoned settlements in the area of ​​Wöllmisse are: Büsitz / Büschitz, Schlendorf, Oberrodigast, loden seat, Hirschdorf, Selzdorf and Clöchwitz. Not to be forgotten are the two outworks Drackendorf (now deserted ) and Burgrabis ( airship ), which were created by the landlords to Drackendorf and Schlöben for the management of the plateau and at the same time mark the boundaries of a former trade route.

During the Middle Ages the Wölmisse was almost completely cleared and operated on the convenient hanging vines. Since the last century began again reinforced reforest. The Wöllmisse is an important recreational area for Jena, particularly with their slopes to Jena, the core mountains and the Pennickental.

Large parts of the Wöllmisse belonged to the core area of ​​the expired at the end of 2007 large-scale conservation project, " Orchids Region Jena - limestone slopes in the central Saale Valley ". In 2004, this area was declared a nature reserve " Kernberge and Wöllmisse ".