Seen from the

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, the Brotjacklriegel is the first high mountain in the

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. It is and lies in the county of

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in the German federal state of

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. It is a symbol of the Sonnenwald region which comprises the municipalities of Schöfweg,

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, Innernzell,

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and

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Schöllnach. Sendeturm Brotjacklriegel

Name

According to

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, the Brotjacklriegel owes its name to a baker, ''Brotjackl'' (EN: "Bread-Jacky"), who is supposed to have hidden on the mountain during the

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. However, the name probably only came into being later during

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work by the French under

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when because of a misunderstanding of the Bavarian "Broada Jaga-Riegl" (Breiter Jägerriegel; EN: Broad Hunter's Sill) the name ''Brotjacklriegel'' was written down.

History

As early as 1839 the parish priest and two publicans from Langfurth built the first viewing tower. In 1924 the present 27-metre-high construction was built. AussichtsturmBrotjackelriegel

Description

On the eastern mountainside above Daxstein are overgrown

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s. At the summit of the Brotjacklriegel is a TV and radio transmitter owned by the

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and a smaller

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belonging to the

Bavarian Forest Club The Bavarian Forest Club (german: Bayerische Wald-Verein), or BWV, is a German club that promotes culture, local history and folklore, nature and landscape conservation, and walking in the Bavarian Forest. It has its head office in Zwiesel and is ...

Access

From the ''Jackl'' hikers' car park above the village of Langfurth to the top of the mountain runs a roughly two-kilometre-long trail, the Sonnenwald Nature Trail (''Sonnenwald-Erlebnispfad '') with 10 stations at which the forest and its inhabitants are explained.Nationalpark-FerienLand, Landratsamt Freyung-Grafenau zum Erlebnispfad
retrieved 4 June 2014

References

External links

* {{Structurae, 20011593, Fernsehturm Brotjacklriegel
Movable Brotjacklriegel webcam on the viewing platform
One-thousanders of Germany Mountains of Bavaria Mountains of the Bavarian Forest Freyung-Grafenau