シュタータールの天然記念物・トップ20

Immediately after descending from the Urenkopf, you pass the "Three Holy Fountains." First, however, you see the Rudolfus Chapel. Right next to it, water flows through the fountains. Steps lead through the sloping terrain.

The Grafmüller butcher's shop with its legendary black sausages no longer exists. The Café Casu on Marienplatz is also history. So why cycle to Ettenheim, the town that makes the car the centre of urban life? The huge signs at the entrances to the town saying "600 free parking spaces" create traffic looking for parking in the narrow streets and make it a little less pleasant to stay for a long time. You will look in vain for bicycle parking spaces (except for Café Rohan). A single car parking space, for example in front of the gate to the Prinzengarten, could make 10 cyclists happy. 10 quiet cyclists for one roaring motorist!

The Prinzengarten is a beautiful garden that was redesigned according to historical models in the early 2000s by the Friends of the Prinzengarten Ettenheim e.V.

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

The Stations of the Cross conclude, beginning at the Red Cross. An old hermitage, now a chapel, is located at an ancient spring believed to have healing powers. A beautiful section of the trail leading up to the Urenkopf.

Very nice that such places are preserved!

A very beautiful hiking area!

Many paths lead up here and down again 😀 good resting place to stay and to choose the further route / descent