Breitenberg (Bregenz Forest Mountains)
| Breitenberg | ||
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 The Breitenberg as seen from Dornbirn ( Forach ) |
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| height | 1105 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Vorarlberg , Austria | |
| Mountains | Schuttannenberge , Bregenz Forest Mountains | |
| Dominance | 0.9 km → Schwarzenberg | |
| Notch height | 60 m ↓ saddle to Schwarzenberg | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 22 '45 " N , 9 ° 43' 55" E | |
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| rock | Schrattenkalk | |
| Normal way | Hiking trail from the Schuttannen-Alpe or the mountain station of the Karrenseilbahn cable car | |
| particularities | Also known as the "broad mountain" in the vernacular ( Dornbirnerisch : "Broata Bärg") | |
The Breitenberg is up to 1105 m above sea level. A. high mountain massif in the far west of the Bregenz Forest Mountains , which rise from the Vorarlberg Rhine Valley .
location
The Breitenberg is located at the northernmost end of the Hohenems municipality and, together with the First massif, dominates the municipality of Dornbirn . The highest point is about 2900 m as the crow flies from the center of the city of Dornbirn and about 1700 m, separated by the furrow of the Fallbach, from the mountain station of the Karren cable car .
Behind the Breitenberg (seen from Dornbirn) directly afterwards, between Staufen , Bocksberg and Schönem Mann , lies the Alpe Schuttannen ( 1148 m above sea level ) on a plateau , on which a very rare natural monument, an old hawthorn bush, lies can be found, which has grown together into a tree.
geology
The Breitenberg consists mainly of limestone and has a total of over 600 m steep precipices. The rock is unstable and major rockfalls have occurred in the past. A fully automatic warning and information system was therefore installed in some areas ( geophones , anchor load cells, extensometers , fissurometers ) and there is also a catch basin and special protection and construction prohibited zones below the Breitenberg, as the so-called "yellow wall" in particular is considered to be at risk of demolition.
The rockfalls have given rise to legends in the past . Because of the unstable rock, the rock faces are generally not suitable for climbing .
The Breitenberg was mainly used in the area of the mountain foot over the centuries for the extraction of gravel, block stones , millstones , whetstones and other things. There were up to seven mining sites between Dornbirn and Hohenems. A part of the north-western massif was opened up many decades ago for industrial and construction mining purposes and is still used today for the extraction of gravel . The large explosions, which were common until the 1980s, have now been discontinued.
natural reserve
The north-western flank of the Breitenberg in the municipality of Dornbirn, together with the Haslach plot in front of it, is designated as a protected area of Breitenberg-Haslach .
National Socialism
1933 brought some of the then illegal Nazi -members in Vorarlberg a swastika -extremely at the free-standing rock face of the mountain width, which up until the period after the Second World War was visible. In the lower area of the rock massif in the pareline "In Stüona" ( hdt .: "In Steinen"), stone was already mined by hand in the municipality of Dornbirn. In the last years of the Second World War, an armaments factory belonging to the Friedrichshafen gear factory was driven into the mountain. Access is still visible today.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ ID No. 12.
- ↑ 1654, 1760, 1943, 1971. See also The Breitenberg is under observation , Vorarlberger Nachrichten of October 24, 2013.
- ↑ See: Geological Warning System - Steil Abbruch Breitenberg ( Memento from June 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The rock fall on the Breitenberg .
- ↑ Chronicle of the Hohenems-Unterklien quarry. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Rhomberg Steinbruch Gesellschaft mbH & Co OG, pp. 14, 18 , archived from the original on September 27, 2015 ; accessed on April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Ordinance of the state government on the protection of the Haslach-Breitenberg area in Dornbirn ( memento of June 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) in the legal information system of the Republic of Austria
- ↑ Werner Bundschuh : Inventory: Heimat Dornbirn 1850 - 1950. (PDF) Retrieved on April 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Chronicle of the Hohenems-Unterklien quarry. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Rhomberg Steinbruch Gesellschaft mbH & Co OG, p. 12 , archived from the original on September 27, 2015 ; accessed on April 12, 2020 .