Angelburg (mountain)
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 View from the northwest to the Angelburg |
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| height | 609.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Hirzenhain train station; Lahn-Dill-Kreis , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Gladenbacher Bergland | |
| Dominance | 12.2 km → Eichholzkopf ( Rothaargebirge ) | |
| Notch height | 190 m ↓ near the forester's house Streitwasser ( Simmersbach -N, Lage ) | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 47 '18 " N , 8 ° 25' 44" E | |
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| particularities | - highest mountain in the Gladenbacher Bergland - ring wall system / Angelburg - Wilhelmsteine - Angelburg TV tower |
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The Angelburg near Hirzenhain train station in the Lahn-Dill district in Central Hesse is 609.4 m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain in the Gladenbacher Bergland and part of the Bottenhorn plateau .
geography
location
The Angelburg rises in the northeast of the Lahn-Dill district not far from the interface with the Marburg-Biedenkopf district . The summit of the mountain in the Lahn-Dill-Bergland nature park is located in the eastern Eschenburg municipality 1.6 km east of Hirzenhain railway station (zu Eschenburg), 2.4 km south-southeast of Lixfeld (zu Angelburg ), 3.5 km west of Bottenhorn (to Bad Endbach ) and 1.5 km (as the crow flies ) northwest of Wallenfels (to Siegbach ). To the north of the mountain is the municipality of Angelburg and to the east and south of Siegbach. The Gansbach rises to the south of the Angelburg and the Siegbach to the east . In the lower area of the north-western flank of the mountain there is a large open- cast diabase .
Natural allocation
The Angelburg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Westerwald (No. 32), in the main unit Gladenbacher Bergland (320) and in the subunit Lahn-Dill-Bergland (320.0) to the natural area Bottenhorn plateau (320.01).
Flowing waters
Rivers swelling at the Angelburg and its foothills drain either, like the Gansbach , through the Perf north to the Lahn or through the Siegbach , the Aar and the Dill south into the Lahn.
Therefore, in terms of natural space, the mountain does not belong to the Schelder Forest , which is mainly defined by the catchment areas of the Dill tributaries Schelde and Nanzenbach . Nevertheless, it is listed in many sources as its highest elevation. Correctly, however, the mountain has to be assigned to the Bottenhorn plateau with less relief, but higher in absolute terms, the western center of which it forms.
Protected areas
On the high altitudes that adjoin the summit region of the wooded Angelburg from east to south, in the area of the Wilhelmsteine, there are north-eastern parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Schelder Wald (FFH No. 5216-305; 37.88 km² in size ). Within this FFH area, a little southwest of the mountain, extends the nature reserve (NSG) Tringensteiner Schelde ( CDDA No. 165950; designated 1994; 84.07 ha ). The FFH area Strickshute von Frechenhausen (FFH No. 5216-302; 33.32 ha) is located on its northern slope . There is also the NSG Strickshute von Frechenhausen (CDDA no. 165764; 1982; 34.89 km²). A little to the west of it is the NSG Beim Sauheckelchen near Lixfeld (CCDA no. 162363; 1989; 8.41 ha), and to the east is the FFH area Struth von Bottenhorn and expansion areas (FFH no. 5216-303; 1.0567 km²) and the NSG Die Struth von Bottenhorn (CCDA No. 162747; 1987; 71.02 ha).
history
A prehistoric settlement with a Celtic ring wall was found near the Angelburg . The Hirzenhainer Keltenstein was also found there , which is now in a museum in Darmstadt and was recently shown in an exhibition together with the famous Keltenstein from Glauberg . Not far from there is the Wilhelmsteine rock formation .
From the early to the high Middle Ages, the Angelburg was an important crossroads of old long-distance trade routes that ran along the longer watersheds , for example Herborner-Strasse , also known as "Hohe Strasse", which ran from north-east to south-west the east-west route of the Leipzig-Kölner-Messe-Straße which went as far as Brabant (Belgium) and was therefore also called Brabanter Straße . It was also called "Schelder-Wald-Straße" and in old documents "strata publica" (public road).
Even today almost unknown, of pouring out on to the Angel Castle led Dünsberg over, as the country road 3047 following, on the tariff book , Günterod and west of Hartenrod and Schlierbach running Westfalenweg into this system. Its route ran largely remote from settlements on the Lahn / Dill and Aar- Salzböde watershed. It was possible to get to Paderborn and Bremen via its northern continuation . Regional paths branched off from these old paths along the way, the routes of which can still be followed today in field and forest paths on the shorter watersheds.
The "Hohe Straße" running along the watershed of the Schelderwald was in use until the beginning of the 1870s. After the new country road was built and completed between 1871 and 1875 from Niederscheld via Lixfeld to Breidenbach , it lost its importance for centuries. Today it is used as a forest road.
Wilhelm stones
About 700 m south-southeast of the summit of the Angel Castle are in the high altitudes of the mountain which is often called "Stronghold" Wilhelm stones , originally carrying stones which are sold as Eisenkiesel - Härtlinge resisted removal. They testify to the fact that the Angelburg was formerly a much higher individual elevation (Angelburg massif), which was removed in the course of the earth's history to its present height. Your group of iron pebbles hardened, whose individual specimens tower up to 15 m high, are a well-known natural monument.
It is assumed that they were a supraregional pre-Christian natural sanctuary . Today a forest service is held there every year on Ascension Day, attended by residents of the surrounding villages.
Angelburg TV tower
The 171 m high Angelburg television tower (radio transmission point Eschenburg 1) has stood on the summit of the Angelburg since 1968 . It is one of the basic network transmitters of Deutsche Telekom.
Traffic and walking
West past the Angelburg runs in its portion between Hirzenhain -Bahnhof and Lixfeld the country road 3042. From this, the branches on the southeastern outskirts of Hirzenhain Station County Road 53 from the south-west by south on the mountain after Tringenstein leads. The K 54, coming from the south-south-west of the valley of the Siegbach , ends in Wallenfels to the south-east of the Angelburg as a spur road. For example, starting at these roads the mountain can be hiked on forest paths and paths. The lake cycle path leads over the Angelburg and past the Wilhelmsteinen .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Gerhard Sandner: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 125 Marburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. → Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)