カッペル・グラーフェンハウゼンの天然記念物・トップ20

An absolute natural idyll. Absolutely beautiful!!

A lovely spot to linger.

The former faschinat is now a defensive structure and probably a ford at low water.

If you are lucky you will see fish jumping up the stairs

The Elzwehr is currently being rebuilt because of the Rhine polder near Wittenweier.

just beautiful here. It is worth cycling here (for nature lovers).

something is being built at the moment. I hope they don't ruin the mood.

The settlement of the landscape in Freiamt has probably in the 11./12. Century during the great clearing epoch of the Black Forest. Even then, people knew that there could be silver ore veins between the rocks in the federal sandstone in the Brettenbach valley. So the Zähringer dukes took favorable land and pushed out the smaller nobility who were busy with the clearing. The Zähringers appointed a able subject a knight of Keppenbach and ordered him to build a castle to protect the silver ore mines. This finally reaches a length of 200 meters and a width of 35 meters. However, the yield of silver was lower than hoped. Mining was abandoned around 1800 at the latest. The first written mention of the Knights of Keppenbach was in 1161. Hartmut von Keppenbach is listed as a witness in a purchase deed from Tennebach. Since the age of the castle is not known, it can be concluded that Keppenbach Castle already existed at this time. You can find more information about Bur Keppenbach on my homepage: https://www.breisgau-burgen.de/de/index.php/breisgau-burgen/burgen-a-h/burgen-f/freiamt-burg-keppenbach