Brotjacklriegel

The Brotjacklriegel is a mountain in the Bavarian Forest. It is 1,011 m above NHN^[2] and lies in the county of Freyung-Grafenau in the German federal state of Bavaria. It is a symbol of the Sonnenwald region which comprises the municipalities of Schöfweg, Zenting, Innernzell, Grattersdorf and Market Schöllnach.

The TV and radio transmitter on the Brotjacklriegel

Brotjacklriegel
View from the Rohrbach Reservoir
Highest point
Elevation	1,011 m above sea level (NHN) (3,317 ft)
Prominence	216 m ↓ [1]
Isolation	17 km
Listing	Brotjacklriegel Transmitter, viewing tower
Coordinates	48°49′1.23″N 13°13′3.12″E
Geography
Brotjacklriegel Freyung-Grafenau, Bavaria (Germany)
Parent range	Bavarian Forest
Geology
Rock type	Gneiss

View from Freyung

Name

According to legend, the Brotjacklriegel owes its name to a baker, Brotjackl (EN: "Bread-Jacky"), who is supposed to have hidden on the mountain during the Thirty Years' War. However, the name probably only came into being later during survey work by the French under Napoleon 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.

Viewing tower on the Brotjacklriegel

Description

On the eastern mountainside above Daxstein are overgrown clearance cairns.

At the summit of the Brotjacklriegel is a TV and radio transmitter owned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk and a smaller viewing tower belonging to the Bavarian Forest Club.

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.^[3]