Starkenbrunnen spring and Ritterstein No. 223
Starkenbrunnen spring and Ritterstein No. 223
Highlight • Natural Monument
Starkenbrunnen spring and Ritterstein No. 223
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This Highlight is in a protected area
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Biosphärenreservat Pfälzerwald-Vosges du Nord
Tips
October 21, 2018
Hiking
The name comes from "strong fountain". The bright silver spring rises at the foot of the Sengelsberg and the clear water flows on a short path through the Starkenbrunner Wiesental into the Rodalb.
Around 1700 the charcoal burner hut of the woodcutter Jakob Junker stood by the source.
The silver-white "silver sand" that the brook carries with it was previously used by the Pirmasens as sand for their living room floors and for cleaning knives and cutlery.
cf. Eitelmann, Walter: Rittersteine im Pfälzerwald, ed. PWV Neustadt 2005.
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April 4, 2020
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June 18, 2023
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To the right above the Starkenbrunnen there is one of the more than 300 knight stones of the Palatinate Forest Association as a name stone for this fountain.
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Elevation 320 m
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