イットリンゲンの絶景の山頂・トップ4

ここに誰かが標高251mに「頂上十字架」を設置しました。ここはベルワンガー・ヴィンターヘルの頂上です。

Nice climb until then 😝

The way up to Ottilienberg leads along a small steep path.

A new consecration and thus a new building of the chapel is recorded from the period around 1462/65. It probably consisted of the present choir with the beautiful star vault and the tower with antechamber and sacristy extension. A few years later, the current ruined nave was probably added. From earlier times, a "forest brother" or hermit is believed to have lived in the building next to the chapel. During the Reformation, all the sculptures were destroyed and the chapel closed. The "forest brother" became a "forest servant". The chapel survived the Thirty Years' War unscathed. In connection with the expansion of the Eppingen lines in 1695 - 1697, the chapel tower was given the function of a charter and was raised. In the 18th century, pilgrimages to the chapel ruins were again made from Eppingen. In 1771, the chapel was still completely intact, but without a roof. Due to agricultural use, the nave was demolished in the 19th century, except for a remnant in the west. In the last days of the war in 1945, the property next to the chapel was destroyed and the chapel was set on fire. In 1955, the city undertook extensive renovation and restoration of the chapel ruins. (Source: www.kath-eppingen.de)

Reachable via narrow single trail uphill

Once a month - usually on the first Sunday of the month from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. - the German Alpine Club, Eppingen district group, opens and manages the Ottilienberg tower.

This is a completely inconspicuous place... but you feel far away from any civilization... absolute peace... nature surrounds you...

The DAV Eppingen local group's hiking hut is currently open on the first Sunday of every month, whatever the weather.