On the stone (mountain)
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View from the Dieteröder cliffs to the stone |
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height | 496.1 m | |
location | Eichsfeld district , northwest Thuringia | |
Mountains | Gobert , Thuringian Basin (with edge plates) | |
Coordinates | 51 ° 17 '24 " N , 10 ° 2' 7" E | |
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Type | Zeugenberg | |
rock | Shell limestone |
On the stone , also just called stone , is a 496.1 m high mountain in the west of the Eichsfeld district in Thuringia ( Germany ).
geography
location
The mountain is located in the western part of the Eichsfeld district near the state border with Hesse . Viewed clockwise, it lies between the small towns of Asbach-Sickenberg in the south and south-west, Dietzenrode-Vatterode in the west and north-west, Mackenrode and Henningerode in the north-east. The closest cities are Bad Sooden-Allendorf (Hesse) (4 kilometers to the southwest) and Heilbad Heiligenstadt ( Thuringia ) (about 12 km to the northeast).
The Wanfried Agreement in 1945 resulted in a shift in the American-Soviet zone border and thus the later Thuringian-Hessian state border. So the places Asbach-Sickenberg , Vatterode , Weidenbach and the associated mountain came to Thuringia . The mountain does not belong to the historical Eichsfeld . The inner German border ran south of the mountain and can still be viewed at the Schifflersgrund border museum near Asbach-Sickenberg.
Natural allocation
According to the natural structure in the Kassel sheet, the mountain is one of the northern foothills of the Gobert (No. 483.10), part of the north-western edge of the Thuringian Basin (No. 483). According to the structure within Thuringia ( The Natural Spaces of Thuringia ), it is assigned to the Werrabergland-Hörselberge unit.
nature
The most south-westerly and highest elevation of the small mountain plateau Auf dem Stein is the Dietzenröder Stein . Immediately on its western edge there is a rock wall made of shell limestone , the so-called Dietzenröder cliffs . A narrow mountain spur runs to the south-east, Die Nase (approx. 450 m ) and to the north-west is the Vatteröder Stein (approx. 465 m ), both also with a small rock face. From all three points you have a wonderful view of the Werra valley and the adjoining mountainous region in western Eichsfeld and northeastern Hesse .
The mountain is mostly covered with deciduous forest and belongs to the Allendorfer Stadtwald . The most common tree species is the beech , but there are also some stands of yew . At the foot of the mountain at the transition to the Buntsandstein there are further foothills and mountain peaks such as the Lindenberg ( 393.5 m ), Scharfenberg ( 375.6 m ) and Heiligenberg ( 310.9 m ). To the northeast it borders directly on the Eichenberg – Gotha – Saalfeld fault zone . Numerous hiking trails lead from the surrounding villages into the mountain area.
Individual evidence
- ^ Measurement table sheet Kurfürstenthum Hessen, sheet 26: Asbach, 1857
- ↑ In most recent maps neither the name of the mountain nor the mountain height is recorded. Only a few maps, such as the BfN map service (1: 10000), provide name and altitude information.
- ↑ Franz Neureuter: Das Eichsfeld, Volume 1: The landscapes of the Eichsfeld Aloys Mecke Duderstadt, 1933, page 106
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969 → online map