Top 20 Natural Monuments around Maitenbeth

New photos of the highlight

A new and interesting highlight is being created in the Ebersberg Forest

The roof of the medieval well is currently being rebuilt

A dead-ice basin is a dry, swampy, or water-filled depression formed by the melting of dead ice. Blocks of ice that break away from the glacier tongue during melting and remain there are called dead ice. Dead-ice basins in which a water-retaining layer has developed, or whose steep slopes sometimes extend below the groundwater level, are water-filled, swampy, or boggy. Their funnel shape allowed rain and meltwater to collect. These small bodies of water have experienced varying degrees of siltation and moor development, even within the same basin. The range of vegetation formations is very broad. It ranges from small reed beds to large sedge marshes, small sedge marshes, quaking grasslands, floating leaf and aquatic vegetation, transitional bogs, and even black alder swamps. Source: https://www.toteiskessel.de/uber-toteiskessel/was-ist-ein-toteiskessel/

The well is at least 600 years old (determined using the C14 method). It is still unclear who built it. The Ebersberg monastery, the dukes or a forester who lived in a so-called "forest hoof" are suspected. Research is ongoing and there are plans to open the well to the public as early as 2024 and it will even serve as a groundwater measuring point.

The Egglburger See is the largest lake in the district of Ebersberg in Upper Bavaria. The Egglburger See is 33 hectares in size and is located on the west side of the district town of Ebersberg directly (360 meters away) on the southern edge of the Ebersberg Forest, specifically the Eglhartinger Forest. The lake is 1100 meters long from northwest to southeast, up to 410 meters wide, and lies at an altitude of 553.0 meters. According to monastic records, an abbot Altmann had the Ebrach dammed around 1040, thereby creating Lake Egglburg. On the shores of the lake are the hamlets of Hinteregglburg and Egglsee, as well as the homestead of Ziegelhof. To the south of the lake there is a moss (moor and meadows), where the Moosbach, the largest tributary, begins. The little river Ebrach represents the outflow of Lake Egglburg in the southeast. Lake Egglburg is at the beginning of a chain of small ponds and lakes along the Ebrach. Since the lake is in a nature reserve, bathing is only permitted after August 1st. Due to the shallow depth of only about two meters and the large amount of mud and reeds, it is not very suitable as a bathing lake - on the other hand, it is an important breeding and resting place for e.g. T. rare birds. In recent years it has lost its importance as a nationally important breeding ground for black-headed gulls, mainly because of increasing silting up; the black-headed gull colony there was at times one of the largest in Bavaria. Source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egglburger_See

After the location was published in the leisure magazine Ebersberger Forst, I drove here for a quick detour. At the moment, however, this is still very unspectacular. Construction fence around it and wooden panels on the ground. You can't see anything. I hope that will change. I'd love to take a look inside. By the way, this is not an oasis of calm either. The vehicles of the St2080 rush by just 20m away. So all in all little charm. Not a worthwhile goal at the moment. There are a number of reports on the subject on Merkur.de. Eg: https://www.merkur.de/lokales/ebersberg/brunnen-ebersberger-forst-loch-funde-Investigation-91649376.html

Beautiful, quiet lake with many water lilies, unfortunately you can't get close enough to the lake