Hägeles- und Brunnenklinge Kaisersbach: Schwäbischer Wald

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Hägeles- und Brunnenklinge Kaisersbach

The double ravine of the Hägeles- und Brunnenklinge is one of the most impressive of the natural beauties of the Swabian Forest. If you come from the direction of Täle, the valley will narrow gradually to a rocky ravine, the Brunnenklinge, a dome-like sandstone grotto into which a two-storey house would easily fit. Water and frost have sculpted bizarre niches, ledges, pulpit-like outcroppings and grottoes from the coarse-grained stone that has varying degrees of hardness and is traversed by crevasses. Great blocks of fallen stone enhance the wild character of the place.

Just three minutes away from the Brunnenklinge is the Hägelesklinge. This is also a remarkable rocky gorge. It ends in a grotto as narrow as a cleft, which formerly might have been the rear (upper) end of a much greater, deeper cave of which the domed front has collapsed. The gorge’s name is supposed to have originated with Johannes Hägele (born in 1806) from Ebersberg, who kept himself hidden there for some time fleeing military punishment.

Hint: The Mill Hiking Trail leads through both of these gorges!