Black cock (mountain)

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Black grouse
height 604.5  m above sea level NN
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Mountains Rothaar Mountains , Siegerland
Coordinates 50 ° 59 ′ 35 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 35 "  N , 8 ° 0 ′ 40"  E
Black Cock (Berg) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Black cock (mountain)

The black grouse is 604.5  m above sea level. NN high mountain in Kreuztal ( Siegen-Wittgenstein district ). The mountain is the highest elevation of the district remote village , which until 1969 the center of the 13 municipalities manage remote village office was. The summit is between Kindelsberg and Martinshardt, on it is the trigonometric point no.5014 .

Trivia

According to a legend, the black grouse is said to have originally had a height of 702 meters. Allegedly, the mine located in it and with it the mountain was blown up by jealous Müseners and the residents of Littfeld, who had to live in the shadow of the black grouse.

Individual evidence

  1. Separate map for the chapter Ferndorfer field names in Ferndorfer Dorfchronik Volume 2, Kreuztal 2004, p. 151ff.
  2. Map: "Tranchot 1801-1828" at www.tim-online.nrw.de
  3. Dietmar Stahlschmidt: 100 years of the observation tower on the Kindelsberg (PDF file; 820 kB), p. 58. accessed on May 1, 2017
  4. Description of a hiking route via Martinshardt, Birkhahn and Kindelsberg ( memento from September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  5. List of trigonometric points in the monument list of the city of Kreuztal , accessed on May 1, 2017
  6. ^ Siegener Zeitung of October 16, 2010, p. 39