Irrhain

[1] The ecological significance of the reserve is expressed in the fact that it is a piece of forest that has been preserved in its natural form, which is especially important due to the fact that most of the German forests are the result of artificial planting of coniferous trees, while originally they were formed by deciduous trees.

[2] Initially, the circle of poets around Georg Philipp Harsdörfer and Johann Clay, who founded the flower order in 1644, met in the so-called poetic grove near Weidenmühle, a peninsula formed by the old waters of the Pegnitz.

After the owner of the property made the place inaccessible with a fence, the participants gathered at the Half Moon house, which was owned by Andreas Ingolstetter.

The work was completed in 1678, and in 1681 the Forest Alms Authority on the Sebalder side of the city confirmed to the Order of the Flowers that it had received "Irraine" as a perpetual fief.

The main entrance to the reserve is decorated in the form of a stone arch in the architectural style of the Baroque, behind which begins an alley leading to a forested area, on which monuments associated with the names of members of the order are installed.