Hahnheide

The Hahnheide is a wooded moraine landscape in the east of the municipality Trittau (Stormarn County) in Schleswig-Holstein, in Germany.

Hahnheide
Pond in the Hahnheide
Geography
LocationTrittau, Germany
Coordinates53°37′00″N 10°27′00″E
Elevation100 m (328 ft.)
Area1450 ha

The name Hahnheide means derived in today's language High Heath.

In the Middle Ages the Hahnheide was still associated with the Sachsenwald. Due to the economic use until 1821 the forest stock shrank more and more. In the middle of the 19th century, reforestation started, so that 95 % of the area is wooded today. The area was protected in 1938.[1]

The second highest elevation in the 1,450 ha area is the Great Hahnheide Mountain (99 m above sea level). There, in 1974, after the former mayor Otto Hergenhan "Langer Otto" called, wooden observation tower was built and rebuilt in 2001 with a height of 27 m. The highest elevation, however, is the Little Hahnheide Mountain, curiously enough with 100 m above sea level, a little higher than its directly opposite counterpart.

The 18th century road through the Hahnheide from Trittau to Hohenfelde consists of a cobblestone paved section on one side and an unpaved so-called summer path on the other side. It is now a listed building.[2]

A 26-hectare area of the Hahnheide has been designated as a natural forest cell since 1982.[3]

Bibliography
  • Graeber, Ulrike (1998). Stormarn, die grüne Brücke zwischen Hamburg und Lübeck [Stormarn, the green bridge between Hamburg and Lübeck] (in German). Bad Oldesloe: BQS-Verlag. pp. 159–161. ISBN 978-3-00-002571-6.
  • Friz, Bernd (1991). Naturschutz und Landschaftspflege im Kreis Stormarn [Conservation in the district of Stormarn] (in German). Neumünster: Wachholtz. pp. 34–48. ISBN 978-3-529-07121-8.

References
  1. "Verordnung über das "Naturschutzgebiet Hahnheide" im Forstamt Trittau, Kreis Stormarn" [Regulation on the "Hahnheide Nature Reserve" in the Forestry Office Trittau, Stormarn County] (in German). Kreis Stormarn. 2 March 1938. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. "Denkmalliste Stormarn" [List of monuments in Stormarn] (PDF) (in German). Schleswig-Holstein Landesamt für Denkmalpflege. 18 March 2019. p. 64. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  3. "Steckbrief der Naturwaldzelle Hahnheide" [Characteristics of the natural forest cell Hahnheide]. 13 January 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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