Binselberg (Odenwald)

Binselberg
Summit area of ​​the Binselberg with wind farm
height	359  m above sea level NHN
location	near Groß-Umstadt ; Darmstadt-Dieburg district , Hesse ( Germany )
Mountains	Odenwald
Coordinates	49 ° 52 '18 "  N , 8 ° 59' 3"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 52 '18 "  N , 8 ° 59' 3"  E

The Binselberg is now an almost completely wooded mountain on the northern edge of the Odenwald at 359  m above sea level. NHN in the eastern part of the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse .

location

Aerial photo: To the left of the center of the picture, the Binselberg is framed by the four wind turbines, above is south

View from the L3095 between Altheim and Richen past the natural monument Gypsy Oak to the Binselberg.

The Binselberg is a good five kilometers east of Groß-Umstadt in the Klein-Umstadt district . His Ostabfall on Radheimer district. On the ridge of the plateau-like mountain is the Binselberg wind farm with several wind turbines to the north (newer systems) and west (older systems) . The sandstone Odenwald ( Odenwälder Buntsandstein ) running out here goes from the Binselberg to the north into the Hanau-Seligenstädter Senke ( Hanau Basin or Eastern Lower Main Plain ). The upper height , often mistakenly regarded as Binselberg, is an approximately 338 m high spur at the north-north-western end ( 49 ° 52 ′ 57 ″ N, 8 ° 58 ′ 23 ″ E), a few meters north of where the district road K101 meets the district road K105 with a small one Barbecue and leisure area.

Waters

Clockwise the Kleestädter Bach rises to the north in the direction of Kleestadt and the Länderbach in the direction of Schlierbach (both later unifying and draining over the Ohlebach into the Gersprenz ), to the east in several source streams the Welzbach , called here Pflaumbach , which flows directly into the Main . Behind the Umstadt elevation of the Alte Höhe rises the Heubach into the Heubacher Tal (Gersprenz), which after a short time joins the Ohlebach, which also swells here , to the southwest the waters of the Wächtersbach es and to the west the Raibach , which after a short time joins the one from the northwest Ohlbach unites, flows into the Raibacher valley and flows into the Ohlebach in the city center. The Amorbach rises to the northwest and flows off via Klein-Umstadt and also flows into the Ohlebach near Harpertshausen . This flows into the Gersprenz near Babenhausen , so that all the streams flowing down flow into the Main at the end.

The Binselberg is regarded as the eastern end of the western Odenwald watershed , which stretches northeast from Heiligenberg via Weißer Stein , Waldskopf , Tromm , Morsberg and Böllsteiner Odenwald . and cuts the Neckar from the Rhein-Main area .

particularities

To the north of the very flat crest lie several burial mounds from the Bronze Age that are barely visible today . At the end of the 19th century, when the road to Radheim was being built, Roman cremation graves were uncovered that have not been preserved. Over the Binselberg to the south, the old path of the Hohen Straße continues over a ridge into the Odenwald to Breuberg Castle . The abandoned remains of the old Klein-Umstädter sandstone quarry are on the south-eastern edge . North and northwest of expiring in the Dieburger Bay Binselberges was in the 18th and 19th centuries barite mined in Schwerspatgruben that two thirds of the funding in the space Odenwald accounted for (see: Schwerspatbergbau in Klein-Umstadt ). Two former, now closed, mouth holes are still visible in the mountain area (compare the list of mines in the northern Odenwald ).

The state road L3413 from the direction of Raibach crosses south via Dorndiel into Mömlingen in Bavaria . The county road from Klein-Umstadt to Radheim (K 105), which runs past to the north, is connected to the state road via a connecting road (K 101) that separates the wind turbines. To the north-east over a ridge leading into the Main foreland towards Schaafheim is a second small ridge that had the same name on older maps and on which the guard tower of the Bachgauer Landwehr is located.

Panorama of the Lower Main Plain from the northern foothills of the Binselberg with a view over Kleestadt into the eastern Dieburger Bay ( Gersprenz lowlands ) to Frankfurt and Hanau , bounded on the horizon by the Taunus

Individual evidence

1. ^ Binselberg
2. ↑ Environmental Atlas Hessen - Rhein-Main-Tiefland structure
3. ↑ Not to be confused with the short Ohlbach of the same name, which flows off just a few kilometers to the northwest .
4. ↑ Adolf Zienert: The major forms of the Odenwald , Department of Geography, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg 1957, p 56 and 109 f.