Altenburg (Neuental)
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 View from Oberurff-Schiffelborn east-northeast to Altenburg |
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| height | 432.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Römersberg ; Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ostwaldecker peripheral depressions | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 2 '40 " N , 9 ° 12' 45" E | |
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| particularities | - Ringwall system Altenburg - Altenburgturm ( AT ) |
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The Altenburg is 432.7 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Hessenwald natural area in the Ostwaldecker peripheral depressions . The mountain is located in the Hessian Schwalm-Eder district ( Germany ) mostly in the municipal areas of Bad Zwesten and Borken , parts of the southern slope are part of the Neuental municipality.
Geologically, the Altenburg is an elevation of the middle red sandstone that towers over the floor of the Schwalmtal by almost 250 m . On the summit region are the remains of the Iron Age ring wall system Altenburg , and on the summit is the Altenburg tower observation tower .
geography
location
The Altenburg rises in the south of the Hessenwald natural area. Its summit, located on the border of Bad Zwesten and Borken, is 1.6 km north-northwest of Römersberg , the northernmost district of Neuental. In addition to Römersberg, the Bad Zwesten district of Niederurff in the southwest and Bad Zwestener Kernort in the west-northwest and the Borken districts of Kerstenhausen in the north, Arnsbach in the east-northeast and Trockenerfurth in the east are spread around the mountain .
To the west and north past the mountain, the Schwalm flows in an elongated arc , passing Niederurff and Bad Zwesten in the east and Kerstenhausen in the south. Directly southwest of the mountain, the Urff flows into the Schwalm in the Löwensteiner Grund . The latter flows about 2.5 km north-northeast of the mountain peak through the Schwalmpforte , which lies east of Kerstenhausen between the Kuhberg ( 342.9 m ) in the south and the Hundsburg mountain ( 334.9 m ) in the north on the other side of the river .
West to north past the forested mountain that runs in Schwalmtal conservation area Auenverbund Schwalm ( CDDA -No 378,405;. Reported in 1993; 45.1006 square kilometers in size).
Natural allocation
The Altenburg heard in the natural environment feature unit group West Hesse Highlands (no. 34) and in the main unit Ostwald Ecker edge sinks (341) for subunit Hesse forest (341.6) extending east a short natural spatial boundary portion to the main unit Kellerwald connects (344). The landscape falls to the west into the natural area Löwensteiner Grund (341.7) and to the east into the natural area Schmillinghäuser Grund (341.10), which belongs to the subunit Rhoder Senken (341.1) in the main unit Ostwaldecker Randsenken (341) .
history
The earliest traces of human presence on the Altenburg can be traced back to the Neolithic Michelsberg culture (5500 to 4900 BC). A permanent settlement already at this time seems unlikely.
In the Iron Age , the Altenburg ring wall was built on the summit region. It was not until the beginning of the Northern Alpine Iron Age, around 750 BC. BC (Hallstatt C) , the mountain was visited more often, settled for a long time and probably already fortified. Several cultural phases up to the middle La Tène period , around 150 BC, can be identified from the datable finds . Chr. (La Tène C).
The name of the mountain is likely to be derived from the Altenburg ring wall system, which is one of the best preserved ring wall settlements in northern Hesse and is often referred to in archaeological specialist literature as Altenburg near Römersberg . Evidence that it was an Iron Age complex was provided by the archivist and historian Georg Landau in the middle of the 19th century . The former settlement covered a total area of around 8.3 hectares and was surrounded by a total of three defensive rings, of which ramparts up to 4 m high are still preserved today.
Altenburg Tower
The wooden Altenburgturm observation tower, around 21 m high, has stood on the mountain top since 1963 . The all-round view from its covered viewing platform at a height of around 18 m is partially restricted by trees. The view is free in a westerly direction over the valley of the Schwalm to Bad Zwesten and over the confluence of the Urff in the Löwensteiner Grund to the Kellerwald, which reaches its highest height at 675.3 m , 9.5 km southwest of the Altenburg on the desert garden . To the east, between the trees, you can see the Borken town center, the Gombether See and the Singliser See and, if visibility is good, the Hohe Meißner ( 753.6 m ), 50 km to the northeast . To the south, partly covered by trees, you can see the Schwalmtal upwards over Neuental and Schwalmstadt to Vogelsberg ( 773 m ) 59 km away .
Transport links and hiking
To the west and north past the Altenburg past Oberurff and through Bad Zwesten and Kerstenhausen in the Schwalmtal, the federal highway 3 , and 1.8 km east of the mountain runs in a north-northeast-south-southwest direction - between the Borken and Neuental junctions - the federal highway 49 . There are no roads on the mountain.
The 3.5 km long Archaeological Hiking Trail Altenburg runs over the south, east and north slopes and then over the summit region of the mountain . It begins at a parking lot of a barbecue area , which is a little north-northwest of the village of Römersberg on the southern slope of the mountain, and leads past 13 stations with information boards. Alternatively, the mountain can be hiked from the Bad Zwestener campsite via the longer routes Z 25, Z 26 and Z 27.
literature
- Ulrike Söder, Andreas Thiedemann, Manuel Zeiler: The Altenburg near Römersberg. Guide booklet for the archaeological hiking trail around the ring wall system near Neuental-Römersberg in the Schwalm-Eder district. (Archaeological monuments in Hessen, 167). State Office for Monument Preservation Hessen, Wiesbaden 2006. ISBN 3-89822-167-9
- Rolf Gensen: The Altenburg near Neuental-Römersberg . In: Guide to archaeological monuments in Germany, 8. The Schwalm-Eder district. Pp. 193-202. Theiss, Stuttgart 1986. ISBN 3-8062-0369-5
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- ^ Georg Landau: Description of the Electorate of Hesse . Kassel 1842. Facsimile from Historische Edition Carl, Vellmar 2000. ISBN 3-9806580-3-1
- ↑ Height according to private measurements
- ↑ On Schuster's Rappen on the website of the Bad Zwesten community