The Stöcklewald is a mountain, , in the southern part of the

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between the towns of

Furtwangen Furtwangen im Schwarzwald (; Low Alemannic: ''Furtwange im Schwarzwald'') is a small city located in the Black Forest region of southwestern Germany. Together with Villingen-Schwenningen, Furtwangen is part of the district (German: Kreis) of Sch ...

and

Triberg Triberg im Schwarzwald is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, located in the Schwarzwald-Baar district in the Black Forest. Triberg lies in the middle of the Black Forest between 500 and 1038 metres above sea level. Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaf ...

, each about 5 kilometres distant, in the county of

Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis Schwarzwald-Baar () is a (district) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Ortenaukreis, Rottweil, Tuttlingen, Constance, the Swiss canton of Schaffhausen, and the districts Waldshut, Br ...

. Towards the north, the

Black Forest The Black Forest ( ) is a large forested mountain range in the States of Germany, state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is th ...

only exceeds this height again in the area of the Schliffkopf and the

Hornisgrinde The Hornisgrinde, 1,164 m (3,820 ft), is the highest mountain in the Northern Black Forest of Germany. The Hornisgrinde lies in northern Ortenaukreis district. Origin of the name The name is probably derived from Latin, and essenti ...

Location

The European Watershed between the

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and the

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runs over the mountain. On its northern slopes rises the Gutach, which flows from here in a northwesterly direction through the Schönwald Highlands and drops over its northeastern edge as the

Triberg Waterfalls The Triberg Waterfalls are waterfalls near Triberg in the Black Forest in Baden-Württemberg (Germany). With a descent of 163 m, it is one of the highest waterfalls in Germany and a landmark in the Black Forest region. Above Triberg, in the ...

. To the southeast flow the tributary streams of the Breg. The northern foot of its gently-sloping domed summit may be reached on local ''

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n'' and ''

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''n, both from the aforementioned towns as well as from Schönwald and

Brigach The Brigach is the shorter of two streams that jointly form the river Danube in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The Brigach has its source at above sea level within St. Georgen in the Black Forest. The Brigach crosses the city Villingen-Schwenning ...

. From there a road runs up to the summit, where there is a ''

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'', a hiker's home belonging to the Black Forest Club and the Stöcklewald Tower. The parish boundary between the village of Rohrbach (in the borough of Furtwangen) and the municipality of Schönwald runs over the summit. The parish of Nußbach in the borough of Triberg also owns part of the northern mountainside. The summit with its tower and the hiking home lie within the parish of Furtwangen-Rohrbach.

Stöcklewald Tower

The roughly 25-metre-high

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was erected in 1894 by the Triberg Branch of the Black Forest Club in the shape of a

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in the borough of Furtwangen and was inaugurated in May 1895. It is a popular destination on the

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managed by the Black Forest Club. From the observation platform there are views over the Central Black Forest to the Feldberg and also a panorama of the

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as well as views of the

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from the

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. The platform is reached via a staircase with 127 steps. The Stöcklewald Tower is also used as a communications relay station for police, THW, fire service, rescue services and

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users. The tower also acts as a radio relay station for broadband and internet services to the surrounding parishes.

Surrounding area

Around 800 metres northeast of the summit, near the road on the heights known as ''Hochgericht'' (1,020.6 m) are the

Triberg Gallows The Triberg Gallows () is a double gallows on the heights known as ''Hochgericht''The local name ''Hochgericht'' ("High Court") does not refer to a high place, but to the High or Blood Court of a judicial district or territorial lordship. () on th ...

. Another kilometre further northeast is a subpeak of the Stöcklewald, the Kesselberg (1,024.2 m) near an important crossroads. On the slopes of the mountain rises the

stream and its most important tributary, the Kirnach. The Kesselberg Fault that runs through here is named after the mountain. This is a significant reason why the Stöcklewald peak is so clearly uplifted above the eastern slopes of the Black Forest, because it has retained a remnant in the fault zone of the

bunter sandstone The Buntsandstein (German for ''coloured'' or ''colourful sandstone'') or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe. The Buntsands ...

that originally lay on the

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. Also in the surrounding area are sights such as St. Hubert's Chapel, a monument to popular religious devotion in an idyllic setting, the

, one of the highest and best known waterfalls in Germany, and the source of the Brigach.

References

External links

Stöcklewald
on the website of the Jugenderholung Schwarzwald {{DEFAULTSORT:Stocklewald Mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg Mountains and hills of the Black Forest One-thousanders of Germany Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis