What is "hirschsprung"

Hirschsprung or Hirschprung may refer to:

• Hirschsprung, Germany, a village in the eastern Ore Mountains in Saxony
• Hirschsprung (Black Forest), a crag above the Höllental gorge in the Black Forest

• Harald Hirschsprung (1830–1916), Danish physician
• Heinrich Hirschsprung (1836–1908), Danish tobacco manufacturer, arts patron and art collector
• Pinhas Hirschprung (1912–1998), rabbi

• The Hirschsprung Collection, an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Hirschsprung's disease, which involves an aganglionic section of bowel

The Black Forest Hirschsprung is a legend from the Höllental valley in the Black Forest in Germany. Over time the name has passed from the legend to a place in the valley.