Around 800 Charlemagne built a St. Michael shrine at the foot of the Miachael mountain. In Christianity, St. Michael is considered the conqueror of the devil.
After the victorious battle on the Lechfeld on August 10, 955, which put an end to the Hungarian invasions, the Archangel Michael was declared the patron saint of Eastern France. Since then, St. Michael has been regarded as the patron saint of the Germans, the patron saint of soldiers and the highest general of the Lord’s armed forces.
The Michaeler Mountain is the foothills of a ridge of the Bohemian Massif, which begins at the Kuhberg and extends over the Buschandlwand and Atzberg to the Michaelerberg and to the south drops steeply over 300 meters into the Danube .
In this video you can see the rocky landscape on the west side of the Michaeler Mountain. The Michaeler Mountain geologically consists of paragneiss, amphobilite and leucocratic migmatite gneiss. The trees that grow naturally on Michaeler Mountain are oaks. The oak, latin quercus, is known as the king of trees. Oak trees are extremely frugal in terms of their location. They like mineral-rich soils. Their roots reach deep into the ground.
The oak trees on Michaeler Mountain seem to grow straight out of jagged rocks. They are probably so-called grape oaks, quercus petraea. The preffered location of grape oaks is in the low mountain regions. The scientific name quercus (oak) petraea (rock), rock oak, indicates the rocky subsoil.