Bocksberg (Harz)
| Bocksberg | ||
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 West side of the Bocksberg with the crane pond and |
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| height | 726 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Hahnenklee-Bockswiese ; District of Goslar , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | resin | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 51 '25 " N , 10 ° 21' 25" E | |
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| Development | Bocksberg cable car | |
| particularities | - Transmission systems - observation tower and mountain restaurant - Bocksberg cable car - summer toboggan run |
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The Bocksberg in the Upper Harz is about 727 m above sea level. NHN high local mountain of the Goslar district Hahnenklee-Bockswiese in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony .
geography
location
The Bocksberg rises in the Upper Harz within the Harz Nature Park . Its summit is 1.2 km east-southeast of Hahnenklee and 1.2 km northeast of Bockswiese, which together form the Goslar district of Hahnenklee-Bockswiese; the Goslar core city is 7.4 km to the northeast.
The rivers Gose , Grane , Grumbach and Kuttelbach have their source on the mountain or in the immediate vicinity . There are several Upper Harz ponds near the mountains on the two last-named rivers .
Parts of the Harz landscape protection area (district of Goslar) ( CDDA no. 321402; 2001 designated; 389.75 km²) are located on the mountain .
Natural allocation
The Bocksberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Middle Harz ( Upper Harz ; 380) and in the subunit Goslarer Bergland (380.2) to the natural area Gosebergland (380.21). The landscape falls to the south and west into the subunit Clausthaler plateau (380.4).
history
Former bobsleigh and luge track
In 1923, the Berlin architect Zensinsky built a 1350-meter-long bobsleigh and luge track on the western slope of the Bocksberg , which was prepared with natural ice every winter. A water pipe was also installed along the track, which could be used when preparing the route. The banked curves were laid out with blocks of ice that had been cut out of the ice in some of the Hahnenkleer ponds and connected to one another. After several fatal accidents with bobsleigh, only luge operations were permitted. The railway was well known at the time; in the 1950s and 1960s national and international championships were also held on it. However, since the preparation with natural ice was very time-consuming and had to be repeated after every thaw period and funding for an artificial ice rink could not be obtained, the operation of this rink was stopped in 1970 with the inauguration of the Bocksberg cable car , whose new ski slope crossed the route. Today you can still find isolated traces of the route in the middle of the forest, but also of your own water supply.
Transmitters
After the Second World War, the British occupying forces carried out the first radio link attempt between the Berlin radio tower and the Bocksberg in 1948 . Initially only three, later eight channels were available for voice transmission. Then, during the Cold War , the US Army (5th Signal Command (Mannheim headquarters), 102nd Signal Battalion and 4th Signal Group) operated a relay station called Bocksberg Relay Site (BBG) for their troposcatterers from 1950 to September 10, 1992 -Connection to West Berlin and a radio link to Köterberg near Holzminden. The associated 62 meter high red and white transmitter mast is used today for mobile communications.
Additional facilities include on a separate antenna mast on the Bockberg three amateur radio - relay stations with the call sign DB0XY. One in the 2 m band (145.725 MHz - 0.6 MHz), one in the 70 cm band (438.725 MHz - 7.6 MHz) and a relay station in the 23 cm band (1270.250 + 28 MHz) , as well as microwave beacons on the amateur radio bands 10 GHz 10368.910 MHz; 13 cm 2320.910 MHz (under construction) and 23 cm 1296.910 MHz, as well as a UHF beacon on 432.475 MHz.
Facilities
Lookout tower and mountain restaurant
On the Bocksberg there is a wooden observation tower , which was built in 1976 and offers a view of the North German Plain and the Harz, including the Brocken ; therefore it also bears the name Brockenblick . Attached to this is a mountain restaurant with 130 seats, which was extensively modernized in 2012.
Cable car and chair lift
The Bocksberg cable car is a 1,100 m long gondola lift built in 1970 by Pohlig-Heckel-Bleichert Vereinigte Maschinenfabriken AG (PHB) with small cabins for four people each. With a difference in altitude of 164 m, it leads from Hahnenklee ( 560 m ) to the Bocksberg and can currently transport 600 passengers per hour. It has 8 columns, the highest one being 22 meters high. On June 1, 2011, the cable car previously operated by the city of Goslar was privatized and taken over by Erlebnisbocksberg Hahnenklee GmbH & Co. KG , based in Goslar (investors Pamela Groll and Heiko Rataj). The cable car has been modernized and made more energy-efficient thanks to an AC motor with frequency converter.
On July 10, 2014, a chairlift went into operation parallel to the cable car with construction costs of 2.5 million euros. The route of 946 meters is operated with 95 armchairs (each with four seats) and can transport a total of 1900 people per hour.
In winter the cable car is used to transport skiers, in summer it can be used to transport mountain bikes to the summit in special cars or, more simply, to take the chair lift. In the Bocksberg ski area , several ski slopes with a maximum length of 1.5 kilometers and downhill trails lead down to Hahnenklee from the summit . In addition to the cable car and the chair lift, there are two drag lifts, a conveyor belt (“magic carpet”) and a children's lift. A toboggan run is also available for tobogganers . There are several hiking trails, including the Liebesbankweg in particular .
BocksBergBob summer toboggan run
From March 2012, a 1250 m long and 1.5 million euro expensive rail-guided summer toboggan run (type "Alpine Coaster" by Josef Wiegand GmbH & Co. KG) was built by the cable car operator ErlebnisBocksBerg Hahnenklee GmbH & Co. KG next to the route of the cable car, which opened on July 6, 2012 under the name Bocksbergbob . The start or ascent is in the immediate vicinity of the cable car mountain station, a lift system is used as an uphill conveyor. The Bocksbergbob was financed by a trio of investors with grants from the state of Lower Saxony and the EU .
Web links
- ErlebnisBocksBerg - Hahnenklee , on erlebnisbocksberg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ www.harzklub.de
- ↑ US telecommunication station Bocksberg (Harz) , on geschichtsspuren.de
- ↑ Bocksberg cable car ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Homepage), on bocksberg-seilbahn.de
- ↑ a b Bocksberg cable car and drag lifts , on lift-world.de
- ↑ Winter sports on the Bocksberg with a map of the Bocksberg ski area ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on erlebnisbocksberg.de
- ↑ Wanderparadies am Bocksberg with a map of the Bocksberg hiking area ( Memento of the original from July 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on erlebnisbocksberg.de
- ↑ Article Building on the Million Project: The toboggan run is growing on Bocksberg ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Goslarsche Zeitung, from April 11, 2012, from goslarsche.de
- ↑ Premiere for the Bocksbergbob ( memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), Goslarsche Zeitung, from June 6, 2012, from goslarsche.de
