Goldberg (Nördlinger Ries)

Goldberg
height	515.3  m above sea level NHN
location	Baden-Württemberg
Coordinates	48 ° 51 '37 "  N , 10 ° 25' 20"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '37 "  N , 10 ° 25' 20"  E
particularities	Prehistoric settlement

The Goldberg is 515.3  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the west of the Nördlinger Ries . Its position as a prehistoric settlement is proven by multiple excavations. It lies on the territory of the Württemberg municipality of Riesbürg . The Goldberg Museum in Goldburghausen provides information about the settlement history of Goldberg.

Surname

The name does not come from the term gold, but from the old German kulm for mountain, a synonym of the Latin collis (hill).

Emergence

The Goldberg was built on white Jura chunks that were thrown here during the Ries event . When the Ries crater filled with water leading to the Riessee, lime-rich spring water emerged from the bottom of the crater from the Weißjura floes. The lime was precipitated and deposited as a travertine structure on the Goldberg.

Earlier settlement

Extensive archaeological excavations, which Gerhard Bersu carried out between 1911 and 1929, revealed that the Goldberg was between about 4000 and 250 BC. It housed settlements five times in BC (Goldberg I to Goldberg V). Goldberg III, the last Neolithic settlement on Goldberg in the third millennium BC, probably consisted of more than 50 houses.

The Goldberg III settlement gave the Goldberg III group its name.

Even in the 4th and 7th centuries, the Goldberg plateau probably had a hillside settlement .

Nature reserve

The cordoned off southern slope of the Goldberg

The entire area of ​​the Goldberg including the Langenberg to the north and the Geisterberg mountains to the west was declared a nature reserve in 1972. The southern steep drop of the Goldberg is absolutely forbidden to enter, is specially fenced off and provided with information boards, as this is where the black mortar bee , which is very rare in Germany, has one of its last places of refuge.

See also

• List of nature reserves in the Ostalb district
• List of nature reserves in Baden-Württemberg

literature

• Hans Pfletschinger: The Goldberg in the past: 4000 years of settlement history, guide through the Goldberg Museum . Riesbürg 1985.
• Hans Frei, Günther Krahe (Ed.): Guide to archaeological monuments in Bavaria, Swabia 2: Archaeological walks in the Ries . 2nd edition, Konrad Theiss Verlag, Stuttgart and Aalen 1988, ISBN 3-8062-0568-X , pp. 153–158.
• Hermann Parzinger: The Goldberg. The metal age settlement. Roman-Germanic research 57. Zabern, Mainz 1998, ISBN 3-8053-2463-4 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ Bernhard Hampp: The fuzzy gold miners go around. In: Ipf and Jagst newspaper. 17th August 2011.
3. ^ State Institute for Environment, Measurements and Nature Conservation Baden-Württemberg
4. ↑ LUBW: Entry on the red list  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.