Lahnberge
| Lahnberge | ||
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 The Ortenberg in the northern part of the Lahnberge, with the Spiegelslustturm |
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| Highest peak | Ortenberg ( 380 m above sea level ) | |
| location | near Marburg ; District of Marburg-Biedenkopf , Central Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Part of | West Hessian mountainous region | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 49 ′ N , 8 ° 48 ′ E | |
| Type | Low mountain range | |
| rock | Red sandstone | |
The Lahnberge are one to about 380 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the West Hessian mountainous region (also called West Hessian mountain and sink region ). They are located near Marburg in the Marburg-Biedenkopf district in central Hesse and form the natural area 348.01.
The Lahnberge are about 16 km long in north-south direction and 2 to 3 km wide in east-west direction.
geography
location
The wooded red sandstone ridge of the Lahnberge spreads immediately east of Marburg parallel to the Lahn flowing south and overlooks the valley of the river, which is around 180 to 190 m high, by a maximum of around 200 m. It extends from Cölbe in the north to Fronhausen in the south.
To the north, the valley of the Ohm separates the ridge from the immediately adjoining, geologically similar castle forest , to the south the Zwester Ohm forms the border to the basalt plateau of the Vorderen Vogelsberg .
While the flattening of the Lahnberge to the Amöneburg Basin runs comparatively gently to the east, the slopes to the west to the Lahntal are comparatively steep, which also applies to the eastern slopes of the Marburg Ridge , which adjoins the valley behind the valley , which together with the Lahnberge make up the Marburger Bergland (348.0) forms.
Natural allocation
The ridge forms the natural area of Lahnberge (348.01) in the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34), in the main unit Marburg-Gießener Lahntal (348) and in the subunit Marburger Bergland (348.0 ). To the north-north-east, north and west to south-west, the landscape falls into the natural area of Marburger Lahntal or Marburger Lahntalsenke (348.02). To the northeast it falls into the Ohmsenke (347.0) and to the east the Ebsdorfer Grund (347.2), two sub-units of the main unit of the Amöneburg Basin (347). To the south the landscape leads over into the subunit Lumda-Plateau (349.0), which belongs to the main unit Vorderer Vogelsberg (349).
mountains
The mountains and elevations of the Lahnberge include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (MSL; unless otherwise stated):
- Ortenberg (a good 380 m) north, to the south-west close to it stands the mirror pleasure tower
- Kornberg (approx. 375 m) - northwest foothills of the Ortenberg
- Klamberg (371.7 m) - western foothills of the Ortenberg with the Marburg transmitter
- Frauenberg (379.4 m) - south, with the Frauenberg castle ruins near Ebsdorfergrund - Beltershausen
- Lichter Küppel (368.3 m) - western center, with a refuge
- Stamp (365.4 m) - eastern center
- Köpfchen (297.7 m) - near the seam line to the south adjoining Lumda plateau
- Richtsberg (a good 295 m) - west of the light Küppel with satellite town Richtsberg
- Rothlauf (287.4 m) - in the south, near Argenstein
- Bernsdorfer Kuppe (approx. 282 m) - outermost northern summit near Cölbe and Bürgeln on the seam line to the Burgwald
Public facilities
On the Lahn Mountains, more precisely on the highest elevation of Ortenberg and its foothills, next to the Spiegelslustturm (after the nearby restaurant "Spiegelslust"; officially: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Turm ), the university clinic , the Sonnenblick clinic , the Max- Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology as well as most of the natural science departments of the University of Marburg and a thermal power station . Between 1961 and 1977, the New Botanical Garden was laid out in the immediate vicinity of the Biology Department . For the new university buildings on the Lahnberg mountains, the Marburg system was specially developed from 1961 to 1963 , the first precast concept in German university construction. The relocation of important parts of the university to the Ortenberg was preceded by some changes in the structure of the community. The summit region, which had previously belonged to Bauerbach , was initially incorporated into the city of Marburg. During the Hessian territorial reform in 1974, Bauerbach and all other villages on the immediate eastern slope of the Lahnberge (except Beltershausen in the south) were incorporated.
history
Over 200 barrows from the Middle Bronze Age and the older Iron Age ( Hallstatt culture ) have been discovered on the Lahn Mountains .
After larger parts of the Amöneburg basin, especially the villages on the eastern slope of the ridge, belonged to the ore monastery of Mainz until 1802, the Lahnberge mark the border ridge between the Landgraviate of Hesse or Hesse-Kassel and the Electoral Mainz exclave around Amöneburg . At the same time, they thus form a historical denominational boundary between Protestant Hesse and Catholic Kurmainz.
Although Marburg remained almost unscathed in the Second World War except for the main train station , which was the target of attacks by the Allies , there are still numerous bomb craters and suspected duds in the Lahn Mountains to this day .
About the nomenclature
The core zone of the Lahnberge consists of the long ridge of the Ortenberg in the north -south direction , the Lichten Küppel and the stamp in the middle and the volcanic Frauenberg in the south.
Talk Marburger however, by the "Lahnbergen", they usually mean only the commonly associated with on the Ortenberg, Lahnberge designated and marked parts of the Philipps University and the Medical Center are located.
By contrast, Marburgers mostly understand “Ortenberg” as the inner part of Marburg at the western foot of the mountain of the same name.
The middle part of the actual Lahnberge with the Lichten Küppel is often referred to as "Richtsberg", as the satellite town is called on its western pre-summit along with the western slope.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c Gerhard Sandner: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 125 Marburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. → Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
- ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
Web links
- Environmental Atlas Hessen: Nature and Landscape → The natural areas of Hesse and → Natural spatial structure - natural area main unit 348, on atlas.umwelt.hessen.de
- BfN landscape profile: Marburg-Gießener Lahntal (No. 34801), on bfn.de
- Map / aerial photo of the Lahnberge (with Marburg ridge) with borders and all important elevations / placemarks ( Google Earth required)