Bleßberg
| Bleßberg | ||
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 The Bleßberg of Schalkau seen from |
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| height | 866.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | between Sachsenbrunn and Steinheid ; Districts of Hildburghausen and Sonneberg ; Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Slate Mountains | |
| Dominance | 6.7 km → Kieferle | |
| Notch height | 129.7 m ↓ Limbach | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 26 '46 " N , 11 ° 0' 17" E | |
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| particularities | Transmitter Bleßberg , observation tower Bleßberg , tunnel Bleßberg | |
The Bleßberg is 866.9 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Thuringian Slate Mountains ( Thuringia , Germany ). It is located in the district of Hildburghausen and the district of Sonneberg between Sachsenbrunn and Steinheid , about seven kilometers northeast of Eisfeld .
The Bleßberg transmitter, completed in 1976, is located on the Bleßberg ; the top of the tower is 1062 m above sea level. NHN (floor height at the tower 866.9 m + 195.1 m tower height) the highest point in Thuringia. On 30 March 2008, the miners met with tunneling work in the tunnel Bleßberg the new railway line between Nuremberg and Erfurt on the Bleßberghöhle .
geography
location
Together with the northeast subsequent drought spruce ( 860.7 m ) and from there northwestern pitch Leite ( 838.7 m ), the northern flank the interface to the solid mass of the donkey Bergs ( 841.5 m is), which forms a solid mass of Bleßberg the shape of a horseshoe open to the west, in the interior of which the Werra source river Saar rises. This massif is bounded to the northwest by the Werra, to the northeast by the Schwarzatal , to the southeast by the Itz tributary Grümpen , while it gradually flattens out to the southwest.
The Rennsteig runs over this massif . Therefore, its elevations are partly counted to the Northern and partly to the Southern High Slate Mountains . The Höhenweg runs exactly over the Pechleite, which runs south into the Heuberg ( 791.8 m ) and the Steinberg ( 754.6 m ), the northern flank of the Schweinsberg ( 816 m ), over the Saarberg ( 801.8 m ) at Friedrichshöhe , which runs north into the Großer Langebachsberg ( 733.2 m ) at the Goldisthal reservoir, and the Hühnerberg ( 824 m ) near Siegmundsburg . At the Dreistromstein near Siegmundsburg, the Rattelsberg ( 823.6 m ) joins the main ridge to the south, and the Rüttelsberg ( 821.9 m ) a little southwest of it . The north-eastern flank of the massif is marked by the Upper ( 788.6 m ) and the Lower Alsbachberg ( 782.7 m ) above Scheibe-Alsbach . South of Alsbach, in the local situation Limbach , over separated by the Neumannsgrund Kieferle ( 867.2 m ), the Rennsteig and pass federal highway 281 , the interface to the Petersberg ( 819.2 m ) and thus to the solid mass of Eisenberg ( 852.6 m ). In the southwest the Schmiede ( 832 m ) forms the connection from the Dürren Fichte to the Bleßberg. The spruce drought runs south over the Neumannsgrund into the Blößberg ( 781.6 m ) and the Steger ( 783.7 m ).
Since the Itz flows into the Main - and thus into the Rhine - but the Saar and Werra flow into the Weser , the Bleßberg lies on the Rhine-Weser watershed . Since the Schwarza in the north now flows into the Saale - and thus into the Elbe - other peaks of the massif lie on the Elbe-Weser watershed .
The Kieferle ( 867.2 m ; east of the Dürren Fichte, behind the Grümpental ), the Große Farmdenkopf ( 868.7 m ) with the Goldisthal pumped storage plant (upper basin at 877 m ; in the northeast, behind ) protrude from the neighboring mountains outside the massif the Schwarzatal ) and the Eselsberg (in the northwest, behind the Werra valley).
River sources
- On the saddle between Bleßberg and Dürrer Fichte, not far from the B 281, the Werra source river Saar rises at an altitude of 800 m . The second, actual Werra source is seven kilometers further north on the southern slope of Eselsberg near Fehrenbach .
- The Itz also rises on the slopes of the Bleß .
- On the northern and eastern slopes of the Dürren Fichte , some source rivers of the Grümpen also arise . Another, more easterly source is directly opposite, on the western slope of the Kieferle .
Bleßberg transmitter
On the Bleßberg, the Deutsche Funkturm , a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom , operates the Bleßberg transmitter for ultra-short wave (VHF), mobile radio , directional radio and DVB-T , a variant of digital television, built in 1976 . Its free-standing reinforced concrete tower, which serves as an antenna carrier, is 195 m high; of which 107.5 m are shaft height. It has two directional radio platforms at a height of 35 and 45 m and a platform at 55 m to protect the directional radio antennas from falling chunks of ice. The tower has no areas open to the public. In the vicinity of this tower there is another transmission tower on the summit region .
Bleßberg tunnel
At 8,314 m, the Bleßberg tunnel is the longest of 22 railway tunnels on the high-speed line from Nuremberg to Erfurt . It crosses under the Bleßberg, with a maximum overburden of 330 m.
Two stalactite caves were discovered during the construction work , the first cave to be discovered was named Bleßberg cave .
Excursion destination and arrival
While the Bleßberg was a restricted military area at the time of the German Democratic Republic - the National People's Army used the high location to ensure radio communications along the nearby inner-German border - it is now a destination for excursions.
On the summit region, the Thuringian Forest Association Saargrund e. V. a hikers' home in a former barracks building. The first steel girder observation tower was built here as early as 1902 , but it was demolished in 1972 on the orders of the GDR government ; since 2002 a memorial stone commemorates this tower. In 1997 a 30 m high observation tower was built.
The summit region can be reached on Bleßstraße between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. otherwise the road is closed to public traffic. This cul-de-sac begins above Saargrund (Hildburghausen district) near Siegmundsburg (Sonneberg district) and near the Siegmundsburg Werra (/ Saar-) springs - a little southwest of the mountain pass ( 515.4 m ) between the Rattelsberg in the north-north-west and the Dürren Fichte in the south-south-east. the B 281.
The summit can also be reached from all other sides via well-marked hiking trails , with the one on stilts in the west being the most popular - although not the flattest.
Others
In the Duchy of Saxony-Meiningen there were two mountains called "Bleßberg", which often led to confusion. On the instructions of Duke Georg II , the “Lower Bleßberg” was renamed and is now called Pleß - the “Upper Upper” kept its name.
See also
List of mountains and elevations in Thuringia
Web links
- 360 ° panorama camera from Blessberg (updated every 10 minutes from shortly before sunrise to shortly after sunset with archive)
- Bleßberg transmission tower. In: Structurae
- The Bleßberg , picture documentation, on thueringer-landschaften.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ n-tv knowledge : Second stalactite cave on Bleßberg , from June 5, 2008, accessed on December 4, 2015, on n-tv.de
- ↑ Detlef Heß: Consecration of the memorial stone in memory of the first observation tower on the Bleßberg . In: Thuringian Forest Association (Hrsg.): Thuringian monthly sheets . No. 1. Wutha-Farnroda 2002, p. 7 .