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Ehrenbürg

May 04, 2023

The Ehrenbürg is a double-peaked butte on the edge of the Franconian Jura in Bavaria, Germany. It is in the district of Forchheim in Upper Franconia, in the municipalities of Kirchehrenbach, Leutenbach and Wiesenthau. The north peak is the 513.9 m Walberla, the south peak the 531.7 m Rodenstein[1] (previously known as the Bodenstein). The hill is popularly known as the Walberla.

Ehrenbürg
View of the Walberla peak from the Rodenstein peak
Highest point
Elevation531.7 m (1,744 ft)
Coordinates49°43′N 11°09′E / 49.717°N 11.150°E / 49.717; 11.150Coordinates: 49°43′N 11°09′E / 49.717°N 11.150°E / 49.717; 11.150
Geography
Ehrenbürg
Ehrenbürg, Walberla and Rodenstein
View of the Rodenstein from the Walberla

Geography

Location

The Ehrenbürg is located in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland, which is the northern part of the Franconian Jura, which in turn forms part of the South German Scarplands. It lies within the Franconian Switzerland and Veldenstein Forest Nature Park, approximately 2 km south-southeast of Kirchehrenbach, 1.4 km northwest of Leutenbach and 1.6 km east-northeast of Wiesenthau. Dietzhof, part of Leutenbach, and Schlaifhausen, part of Wiesenthau, lie south of the hill; Reuth, an eastern part of the town of Forchheim, lies west of it.

The hill is approximately 1.5 km long and 300 or 350 m wide at its widest.[2][3] Its two peaks are 750 m apart, with a broad "saddle" between them. The Ehrenbach flows past the hill to the east; in Kirchehrenbach it joins the Wiesent-Mühlbach, a tributary of the Wiesent, which flows to the west.

Protected areas

The Ehrenbürg is located in the west of the twin natural protected areas of Ehrenbürg and Katzenköpfe, designated under the Habitats Directive of the European Union, and which are coterminous with the local extent of the bird protection area (Important Bird Area) Felsen- und Hangwälder in der Fränkischen Schweiz (cliffs and forested slopes of Little Switzerland). In addition, it is part of the western section of the Protected area Little Switzerland and Veldenstein Forest, which was founded in 2001 and comprises 1,021.64 km2. The dry grassland habitat and rare plants, particularly orchids, caused the hill, in particular its higher parts, to be designated in 1987 as the Ehrenbürg Nature Protection Area,[4] which is 1.55 km2 in area, extending a maximum of approximately 2.3 km from north to south and 1 km from east to west.

Geology

Overview

The Ehrenbürg is an outlier that is separated by the Ehrenbach stream from the high plateau of the Franconian Jura. The roughly 1,500-metre-long and 300-metre-wide hill rises up to 250 metres above the plain of the Lower Wiesent Valley. It may be roughly divided into three areas: in the south is the Rodenstein with its summit (532 m) and the Schlaifhausener Kopf (512 m), in the centre is a broad saddle and in the north is the Walberla, including the Denkmalfels (514 m) and the Geierswandkopf (523 m).

At the start of the Jurassic, about 200 million years ago, a sea covered almost all of south Germany. During the Lower Jurassic (Lias) the region was initially still on the edge of the sea. Rivers transported sand from the mainlandinto the sea basin and the coast moved further southeast as a result. There in the still waters dark clays and marls were deposited.

The Ehrenbürgfelsen is designated a geotope by the Bavarian Department of the Environment.[5]

 
Ehrenbürg Panorama

Steinerne Frau on the Walberla

The Steinerne Frau ("Stone Woman") on the Walberla is a prominent rock formation on the western hillside of the Walberla. Weathering has resulted in erosion, especially of the vertical joints in the dolomite strata. Over time these crevices have become so extensively eroded that individual rock towers have been created. This rock tower has not been fully separated from the rock face in its lower section. The Steinerne Frau has been designated as a geotope,[6] which was incorporated in September 2005 into the list of the most beautiful geotopes in Bavaria.

Wiesenthauer Nadel

About 100 metres south of the Steinerne Frau is the rock tower known as the Wiesenthauer Nadel ("Wiesenthau Needle"). This rock has been completed separated from its parent rock and is already tilting towards the valley.

Zwillingsfelsen

On the eastern edge of the Walberla are the Zwillingsfelsen ("Twin Rocks"). This rock pinnacle is also entirely independent of the neighbouring rock face and will probably collapse. It is designated as a geotope.[7]

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    The Steinerne Frau

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    Zwillingsfelsen

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    Wiesenthauer Nadel

Names and history

 
Chapel of St Walburga

The name Walberla is first recorded in an 18th-century document referring to students from Erlangen going up the mountain and is presumably derived from St Walburga. A 16th–17th-century chapel dedicated to her stands on the north peak; the first recorded mention of such a chapel is dated 1360.[2]

The name Ehrenbürg appears to be earlier and has been variously interpreted. One interpretation derives it from Latin arca (protection) and German Burg (fortification), to mean "protective area" or "fort which is a safe retreat",[8] another from Celtic *Ariacon or *Arika;[9] and another from the Ehrenbach and the devices used to catch fish there.[10][11] There are two local stories about fish. The chapel used to have a statue of the Virgin Mary with a water-filled crown in which a fish swam, and according to legend if the fish slapped its tail against the side of the crown, there would be a flood;[12] also according to legend, an underground lake beneath the hill contains a fish so large that it must swallow its own tail, and if it released it, all the nearby settlements would be inundated by the resulting overflow.[13]

The hill is also the subject of numerous legends about witches and hidden treasure, and the tale of a fabulous town which once stood at the foot of the hill, an accursed castle which stood where the chapel is now, and an evil woman who was turned to stone and became a rocky outcropping, the "steinerne Jungfrau" (stone virgin).[2][14]

The hill was a settlement site from the early Neolithic (approximately 4000 BCE) until the end of the Roman period in the 5th century CE. In the late 14th century BCE, it became a hill fort; in the early Iron Age (approximately 550–380 BCE), under the Celtic Hallstatt and early La Tène cultures, it was a strongly fortified regional centre, with two gates and a citadel, and finds originating from Mediterranean cultures indicate far-flung trade. Remnants of these fortifications are still discernible. However, in the late Iron Age, during the late La Tène period (approximately 150–30 BCE) the hill was only lightly settled; instead, a large unfortified town grew up nearby at Altendorf. The defensive role of the Ehrenbürg appears to have been taken over by the Staffelberg. After an interruption, there was then possible occupation by Germanic people[3] during the late Roman period, around 400 CE; unlike the Celtic settlement, only on the Rodenstein.[2]

Archaeological finds indicate that during the Hallstatt and La Tène periods, the hill was the site of human sacrifices, possibly including cannibalism.[2] Some human bones, such as a woman's skeleton which was unnaturally bent and buried under boulders, appear to be sacrifices for the luck of a building; some skulls have been cut up and had holes bored in them for use as amulets; the armless and legless skeleton of a baby, and discarded fragments of human bones with cut marks, both suggest cannibalism. Nine skeletons of newborn babies were also found to have been buried against the eastern foundation of the chapel in the 17th or the 18th century.[2]

The first archaeological investigations of the Ehrenbürg were conducted beginning in 1903 by Hans Räbel (1872–1941), a teacher in Forchheim who founded the local historical society and was responsible for the foundation of the local museum. He succeeded in both saving Forchheim Castle and preventing development of the hill. Between 1989 and 1995, Björn-Uwe Abels of the Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege (Bavarian State Department of Preservation) conducted extensive excavations. In 2005, a tranche was then taken through the wall to reveal the phases of development.[2] Finds from the site, and from the Staffelberg, are now on display at the Archäologiemuseum Oberfranken (Archaeology Museum of Upper Franconia), a branch of the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection housed in Forchheim Castle.

An early 16th-century wooden statue of St. Walburga by Hans Nußbaum used to stand in the chapel, flanked by statues of her brothers, but was stolen;[12] on 1 May 2000, a new bronze statue in front of it, by Ernst Steinacker, was dedicated.[15]

Modern uses

 
Rockface on the hill

Walberla-Fest

The Walberla-Fest in honour of St. Walburga is the oldest spring festival in Germany;[16] pilgrimages associated with the Walberla-Kärwa are attested as early as the 9th century.[17] It supposedly derives from an ancient heathen festival. It grew from a pilgrimage into a widely attended fair. In 1801, geographer J. B. Koppelt described it as "a famous market ... attended by merchants from Saxony, Bayreuth, the Palatinate and Nuremberg and where every imaginable class of merchandise is offered, especially shoes."[18] It became particularly popular with students from the University of Erlangen; a student's account of attending the fair in 1798 is preserved. The poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel writes in his 1863 poem Exodus Cantorum – Bambergischer Domchorknaben Sängerfahrt:

Ob Vorchheim bei Kirchehrenbach

Woll'n wir zu Berge steigen.
Dort schwingt sich am Walburgistag
Der Franken Maimarktreigen.
Der ist seit grauer Heidenzeit
Noch allem Landvolk theuer,
Schatzkind, halt Gürtel fest und Kleid,

Wir springen durch die Feuer![2]

Above Forchheim at Kirchehrenbach

Let's go up on the hilltop
There on St. Walburga's Day
The Franconian May-market dance is in full swing
Since dim days of heathendom
It has been dear to all people of the land
Darling, hold your belt and your dress tight

We're jumping through the fire!

Until 1910, the fair took place on the saint's day, 1 May; since then it has been held on the first Sunday in May.[2]

Climbing

Climbing the Walberla has been forbidden since 1991. On the Rodenstein, only established routes may be climbed. There are 44 of these, up to UIAA grade VIII+.[19] Major climbing routes are the Schlaifhausen Face, the Frankenschnellweg (Franconian Shortcut) and the Edelweiß Face.[20]

References

  1. ^ Heights based on map evidence at Federal Agency for Nature Conservation, Kartendienst (map service) 2012-12-19 at the Wayback Machine; however, the elevations of the two peaks are generally stated to be 532 and 512 metres, for example by the German Alpine Club.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i Christina König and Mathias Will, "Geheimnisvolles Walberla: Die Besiedlung in vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit", Mitteilungen der Freunde der Vor- und Frühgeschichte 117, 28 November 2006 (in German)
  3. ^ a b Rainer Christlein and Otto Braasch, Das unterirdische Bayern: 7000 Jahre Geschichte und Archäologie im Luftbild, Stuttgart: Theiss, 1982, ISBN 978-3-8062-0233-5, p. 110 (in German)
  4. ^ Naturschutzgebiet Nr. 51 - "Ehrenbürg", Regierung von Oberfranken, 11 September 1987 (pdf) (in German)
  5. ^ Geotop: Ehrenbuergfelsen am Walberla-Berg (Katasternummer 474R037), (retrieved 22 March 2020).
  6. ^ Bayerisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Geotop Steinerne Frau am Walberla S von Kirchehrenbach (retrieved 26 November 2017).
  7. ^ Geotop: Zwillingsfelsen am Walberla-Berg (Katasternummer 474R035), (retrieved 22 March 2020).
  8. ^ Herbert Menhofer, "Zur Deutung des Namens 'Ehrenbürg'", Erlanger Bausteine zur fränkischen Heimatforschung 5.1–2 (1958) pp. 28–31, cited in Archiv für Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 (1966) p. 112 (in German)
  9. ^ Jahrbuch für fränkische Landesforschung 62 (2002) p. 365 (in German)
  10. ^ Hermann Schreibmüller, "Ehrenbürg, ein Bergnamenrätsel", Fränkische Blätter zur Geschichtsforschung und Heimatpflege 1.9 (1949) 33–36, repr. in Franken in Geschichte und Namenwelt, ed. Günther Schuhmann, Veröffentlichungen der Gesellschaft für Fränkische Geschichte: Darstellungen aus der fränkischen Geschichte 10, Würzburg: Schöningh, 1954, pp. 187–92, p. 191 (in German)
  11. ^ Archiv für Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 (1966) p. 111 (in German)
  12. ^ a b "Der Fisch in der Marienkrone", Archiv für Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 (1966) p. 120; also in Alfred Frank, Das Walberla und sein Sagenkranz, Beiträge zur Ortskunde von Kirchehrenbach 3, Kirchehrenbach Heimatfreunde 1989, repr. Bayreuth 1977, text online on Walter Eckert's site (in German)
  13. ^ "Der grosse Fisch im Berg", Archiv für Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 (1966) p. 119; also in Frank; text online on Walter Eckert's site (in German)
  14. ^ "Das Walberla und sein Sagenkranz", index to legends collected by Alfred Frank on Walter Eckert's site (in German)
  15. ^ Denkmäler: Das Walberla, Tourismusverein "Rund ums Walberla - Ehrenbürg", retrieved 16 June 2011 (in German)
  16. ^ Ralf Nestmeyer, Fränkische Schweiz, DuMont-Bildatlas 59, Ostfildern: Ostfildern DuMont-Reise-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7701-9213-7, p. 42 (in German)
  17. ^ Werner Dettelbacher, Franken: Kunst, Geschichte u. Landschaft, DuMont-Kunst-Reiseführer, 6th ed. Cologne: DuMont, 1978, ISBN 978-3-7701-0746-9, p. 281 (in German), saying the chapel is on the site of a shrine to Freyja.
  18. ^ Quoted in König and Will: "ein berühmter Markt. ... der von sächsischen, bayreuthischen, (ober-)pfälzischen und nürnbergischen Krämern besucht wird und wo alle erdenkliche Krämerwaren, besonders Schuhe, feil sind."
  19. ^ Rodenstein (Walberla) - Trubachtal und Seitentäler, German Alpine Club, 10 December 2009, retrieved 19 June 2011 (in German)
  20. ^ Gipfelbuch Klettern Walberla, with recommended climbs and links to diagrams of climbing routes (in German)

Sources

  • G. Böhner. "Das Walberla - eine Attraktion seit 100 000 Jahren". Die Fränkische Schweiz 4 (1983) 109–11 (in German)
  • Björn-Uwe Abels. "Kannibalismus auf der Ehrenbürg". Das archäologische Jahr in Bayern 1990. pp. 68–70 (in German)
  • Georg Schwarz. Die Ehrenburg (Walberla). Heimatbeilage zum Amtlichen Schulanzeiger des Regierungsbezirks Oberfranken 207. Bayreuth: Regierung von Oberfranken, 1994 (in German)
  • Björn-Uwe Abels. "Überblick über die Besiedelung der Ehrenbürg in vorgeschichtlicher Zeit". Bericht der Bayerischen Bodendenkmalpflege 30/31 (1994) 103–22 (in German)
  • Hermann Schmidt-Kaler. Das Walberla - Ein Weißjura-Zeugenberg vor der Frankenalb. Wanderungen in die Erdgeschichte 15. Munich: Pfeil, 2004. ISBN 978-3-89993-749-7 (in German)
  • Björn-Uwe Abels, Günter Dippold, Wolfgang Schirmer and Ermelinda Spoletschnik, eds. Die Ehrenbürg. Geologie - Archäologie - Volkskunde. Proceedings of the symposium Die Ehrenbürg - neue Forschungsergebnisse, 7 October 2006. Forchheim: Kulturamt des Landkreises Forchheim, 2009. ISBN 978-3-9811274-5-4 (in German)

External links

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ehrenbürg.
  • www.walberla.de, Tourismusverein "Rund ums Walberla - Ehrenbürg" (in German)
  • Adolf Riechelmann and Adolf Zirnsack, "Verbreitung und Ökologie der Orchideen der Ehrenbürg" (in German)
  • "Das Walberla wird zur Mülldeponie!", April Fools' Day article, Frankenjura.com (in German)

May 04, 2023
ehrenbürg, double, peaked, butte, edge, franconian, jura, bavaria, germany, district, forchheim, upper, franconia, municipalities, kirchehrenbach, leutenbach, wiesenthau, north, peak, walberla, south, peak, rodenstein, previously, known, bodenstein, hill, popu. The Ehrenburg is a double peaked butte on the edge of the Franconian Jura in Bavaria Germany It is in the district of Forchheim in Upper Franconia in the municipalities of Kirchehrenbach Leutenbach and Wiesenthau The north peak is the 513 9 m Walberla the south peak the 531 7 m Rodenstein 1 previously known as the Bodenstein The hill is popularly known as the Walberla EhrenburgView of the Walberla peak from the Rodenstein peakHighest pointElevation531 7 m 1 744 ft Coordinates49 43 N 11 09 E 49 717 N 11 150 E 49 717 11 150 Coordinates 49 43 N 11 09 E 49 717 N 11 150 E 49 717 11 150GeographyEhrenburgBavaria GermanyEhrenburg Walberla and Rodenstein View of the Rodenstein from the Walberla Contents 1 Geography 1 1 Location 1 2 Protected areas 2 Geology 2 1 Overview 2 2 Steinerne Frau on the Walberla 2 3 Wiesenthauer Nadel 2 4 Zwillingsfelsen 3 Names and history 4 Modern uses 4 1 Walberla Fest 4 2 Climbing 5 References 6 Sources 7 External linksGeography EditLocation Edit The Ehrenburg is located in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland which is the northern part of the Franconian Jura which in turn forms part of the South German Scarplands It lies within the Franconian Switzerland and Veldenstein Forest Nature Park approximately 2 km south southeast of Kirchehrenbach 1 4 km northwest of Leutenbach and 1 6 km east northeast of Wiesenthau Dietzhof part of Leutenbach and Schlaifhausen part of Wiesenthau lie south of the hill Reuth an eastern part of the town of Forchheim lies west of it The hill is approximately 1 5 km long and 300 or 350 m wide at its widest 2 3 Its two peaks are 750 m apart with a broad saddle between them The Ehrenbach flows past the hill to the east in Kirchehrenbach it joins the Wiesent Muhlbach a tributary of the Wiesent which flows to the west Protected areas Edit The Ehrenburg is located in the west of the twin natural protected areas of Ehrenburg and Katzenkopfe designated under the Habitats Directive of the European Union and which are coterminous with the local extent of the bird protection area Important Bird Area Felsen und Hangwalder in der Frankischen Schweiz cliffs and forested slopes of Little Switzerland In addition it is part of the western section of the Protected area Little Switzerland and Veldenstein Forest which was founded in 2001 and comprises 1 021 64 km2 The dry grassland habitat and rare plants particularly orchids caused the hill in particular its higher parts to be designated in 1987 as the Ehrenburg Nature Protection Area 4 which is 1 55 km2 in area extending a maximum of approximately 2 3 km from north to south and 1 km from east to west Geology EditOverview Edit The Ehrenburg is an outlier that is separated by the Ehrenbach stream from the high plateau of the Franconian Jura The roughly 1 500 metre long and 300 metre wide hill rises up to 250 metres above the plain of the Lower Wiesent Valley It may be roughly divided into three areas in the south is the Rodenstein with its summit 532 m and the Schlaifhausener Kopf 512 m in the centre is a broad saddle and in the north is the Walberla including the Denkmalfels 514 m and the Geierswandkopf 523 m At the start of the Jurassic about 200 million years ago a sea covered almost all of south Germany During the Lower Jurassic Lias the region was initially still on the edge of the sea Rivers transported sand from the mainlandinto the sea basin and the coast moved further southeast as a result There in the still waters dark clays and marls were deposited The Ehrenburgfelsen is designated a geotope by the Bavarian Department of the Environment 5 Ehrenburg Panorama Steinerne Frau on the Walberla Edit The Steinerne Frau Stone Woman on the Walberla is a prominent rock formation on the western hillside of the Walberla Weathering has resulted in erosion especially of the vertical joints in the dolomite strata Over time these crevices have become so extensively eroded that individual rock towers have been created This rock tower has not been fully separated from the rock face in its lower section The Steinerne Frau has been designated as a geotope 6 which was incorporated in September 2005 into the list of the most beautiful geotopes in Bavaria Wiesenthauer Nadel Edit About 100 metres south of the Steinerne Frau is the rock tower known as the Wiesenthauer Nadel Wiesenthau Needle This rock has been completed separated from its parent rock and is already tilting towards the valley Zwillingsfelsen Edit On the eastern edge of the Walberla are the Zwillingsfelsen Twin Rocks This rock pinnacle is also entirely independent of the neighbouring rock face and will probably collapse It is designated as a geotope 7 The Steinerne Frau Zwillingsfelsen Wiesenthauer NadelNames and history Edit Chapel of St Walburga The name Walberla is first recorded in an 18th century document referring to students from Erlangen going up the mountain and is presumably derived from St Walburga A 16th 17th century chapel dedicated to her stands on the north peak the first recorded mention of such a chapel is dated 1360 2 The name Ehrenburg appears to be earlier and has been variously interpreted One interpretation derives it from Latin arca protection and German Burg fortification to mean protective area or fort which is a safe retreat 8 another from Celtic Ariacon or Arika 9 and another from the Ehrenbach and the devices used to catch fish there 10 11 There are two local stories about fish The chapel used to have a statue of the Virgin Mary with a water filled crown in which a fish swam and according to legend if the fish slapped its tail against the side of the crown there would be a flood 12 also according to legend an underground lake beneath the hill contains a fish so large that it must swallow its own tail and if it released it all the nearby settlements would be inundated by the resulting overflow 13 The hill is also the subject of numerous legends about witches and hidden treasure and the tale of a fabulous town which once stood at the foot of the hill an accursed castle which stood where the chapel is now and an evil woman who was turned to stone and became a rocky outcropping the steinerne Jungfrau stone virgin 2 14 The hill was a settlement site from the early Neolithic approximately 4000 BCE until the end of the Roman period in the 5th century CE In the late 14th century BCE it became a hill fort in the early Iron Age approximately 550 380 BCE under the Celtic Hallstatt and early La Tene cultures it was a strongly fortified regional centre with two gates and a citadel and finds originating from Mediterranean cultures indicate far flung trade Remnants of these fortifications are still discernible However in the late Iron Age during the late La Tene period approximately 150 30 BCE the hill was only lightly settled instead a large unfortified town grew up nearby at Altendorf The defensive role of the Ehrenburg appears to have been taken over by the Staffelberg After an interruption there was then possible occupation by Germanic people 3 during the late Roman period around 400 CE unlike the Celtic settlement only on the Rodenstein 2 Archaeological finds indicate that during the Hallstatt and La Tene periods the hill was the site of human sacrifices possibly including cannibalism 2 Some human bones such as a woman s skeleton which was unnaturally bent and buried under boulders appear to be sacrifices for the luck of a building some skulls have been cut up and had holes bored in them for use as amulets the armless and legless skeleton of a baby and discarded fragments of human bones with cut marks both suggest cannibalism Nine skeletons of newborn babies were also found to have been buried against the eastern foundation of the chapel in the 17th or the 18th century 2 The first archaeological investigations of the Ehrenburg were conducted beginning in 1903 by Hans Rabel 1872 1941 a teacher in Forchheim who founded the local historical society and was responsible for the foundation of the local museum He succeeded in both saving Forchheim Castle and preventing development of the hill Between 1989 and 1995 Bjorn Uwe Abels of the Bayerisches Landesamt fur Denkmalpflege Bavarian State Department of Preservation conducted extensive excavations In 2005 a tranche was then taken through the wall to reveal the phases of development 2 Finds from the site and from the Staffelberg are now on display at the Archaologiemuseum Oberfranken Archaeology Museum of Upper Franconia a branch of the Bavarian State Archaeological Collection housed in Forchheim Castle An early 16th century wooden statue of St Walburga by Hans Nussbaum used to stand in the chapel flanked by statues of her brothers but was stolen 12 on 1 May 2000 a new bronze statue in front of it by Ernst Steinacker was dedicated 15 Modern uses Edit Rockface on the hill Walberla Fest EditThe Walberla Fest in honour of St Walburga is the oldest spring festival in Germany 16 pilgrimages associated with the Walberla Karwa are attested as early as the 9th century 17 It supposedly derives from an ancient heathen festival It grew from a pilgrimage into a widely attended fair In 1801 geographer J B Koppelt described it as a famous market attended by merchants from Saxony Bayreuth the Palatinate and Nuremberg and where every imaginable class of merchandise is offered especially shoes 18 It became particularly popular with students from the University of Erlangen a student s account of attending the fair in 1798 is preserved The poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel writes in his 1863 poem Exodus Cantorum Bambergischer Domchorknaben Sangerfahrt Ob Vorchheim bei KirchehrenbachWoll n wir zu Berge steigen Dort schwingt sich am Walburgistag Der Franken Maimarktreigen Der ist seit grauer Heidenzeit Noch allem Landvolk theuer Schatzkind halt Gurtel fest und Kleid Wir springen durch die Feuer 2 Above Forchheim at KirchehrenbachLet s go up on the hilltop There on St Walburga s Day The Franconian May market dance is in full swing Since dim days of heathendom It has been dear to all people of the land Darling hold your belt and your dress tightWe re jumping through the fire Until 1910 the fair took place on the saint s day 1 May since then it has been held on the first Sunday in May 2 Climbing Edit Climbing the Walberla has been forbidden since 1991 On the Rodenstein only established routes may be climbed There are 44 of these up to UIAA grade VIII 19 Major climbing routes are the Schlaifhausen Face the Frankenschnellweg Franconian Shortcut and the Edelweiss Face 20 References Edit Heights based on map evidence at Federal Agency for Nature Conservation Kartendienst map service Archived 2012 12 19 at the Wayback Machine however the elevations of the two peaks are generally stated to be 532 and 512 metres for example by the German Alpine Club a b c d e f g h i Christina Konig and Mathias Will Geheimnisvolles Walberla Die Besiedlung in vor und fruhgeschichtlicher Zeit Mitteilungen der Freunde der Vor und Fruhgeschichte 117 28 November 2006 in German a b Rainer Christlein and Otto Braasch Das unterirdische Bayern 7000 Jahre Geschichte und Archaologie im Luftbild Stuttgart Theiss 1982 ISBN 978 3 8062 0233 5 p 110 in German Naturschutzgebiet Nr 51 Ehrenburg Regierung von Oberfranken 11 September 1987 pdf in German Geotop Ehrenbuergfelsen am Walberla Berg Katasternummer 474R037 retrieved 22 March 2020 Bayerisches Landesamt fur Umwelt Geotop Steinerne Frau am Walberla S von Kirchehrenbach retrieved 26 November 2017 Geotop Zwillingsfelsen am Walberla Berg Katasternummer 474R035 retrieved 22 March 2020 Herbert Menhofer Zur Deutung des Namens Ehrenburg Erlanger Bausteine zur frankischen Heimatforschung 5 1 2 1958 pp 28 31 cited in Archiv fur Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 1966 p 112 in German Jahrbuch fur frankische Landesforschung 62 2002 p 365 in German Hermann Schreibmuller Ehrenburg ein Bergnamenratsel Frankische Blatter zur Geschichtsforschung und Heimatpflege 1 9 1949 33 36 repr in Franken in Geschichte und Namenwelt ed Gunther Schuhmann Veroffentlichungen der Gesellschaft fur Frankische Geschichte Darstellungen aus der frankischen Geschichte 10 Wurzburg Schoningh 1954 pp 187 92 p 191 in German Archiv fur Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 1966 p 111 in German a b Der Fisch in der Marienkrone Archiv fur Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 1966 p 120 also in Alfred Frank Das Walberla und sein Sagenkranz Beitrage zur Ortskunde von Kirchehrenbach 3 Kirchehrenbach Heimatfreunde 1989 repr Bayreuth 1977 text online on Walter Eckert s site in German Der grosse Fisch im Berg Archiv fur Geschichte von Oberfranken 46 1966 p 119 also in Frank text online on Walter Eckert s site in German Das Walberla und sein Sagenkranz index to legends collected by Alfred Frank on Walter Eckert s site in German Denkmaler Das Walberla Tourismusverein Rund ums Walberla Ehrenburg retrieved 16 June 2011 in German Ralf Nestmeyer Frankische Schweiz DuMont Bildatlas 59 Ostfildern Ostfildern DuMont Reise Verlag 2010 ISBN 978 3 7701 9213 7 p 42 in German Werner Dettelbacher Franken Kunst Geschichte u Landschaft DuMont Kunst Reisefuhrer 6th ed Cologne DuMont 1978 ISBN 978 3 7701 0746 9 p 281 in German saying the chapel is on the site of a shrine to Freyja Quoted in Konig and Will ein beruhmter Markt der von sachsischen bayreuthischen ober pfalzischen und nurnbergischen Kramern besucht wird und wo alle erdenkliche Kramerwaren besonders Schuhe feil sind Rodenstein Walberla Trubachtal und Seitentaler German Alpine Club 10 December 2009 retrieved 19 June 2011 in German Gipfelbuch Klettern Walberla with recommended climbs and links to diagrams of climbing routes in German Sources EditG Bohner Das Walberla eine Attraktion seit 100 000 Jahren Die Frankische Schweiz 4 1983 109 11 in German Bjorn Uwe Abels Kannibalismus auf der Ehrenburg Das archaologische Jahr in Bayern 1990 pp 68 70 in German Georg Schwarz Die Ehrenburg Walberla Heimatbeilage zum Amtlichen Schulanzeiger des Regierungsbezirks 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