Penitentiary
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| height | 253 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | West Hessian mountainous region | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '14 " N , 9 ° 23' 31" E | |
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| rock | basalt | |
The Bußbalg , historically also Busbalch and Pusbag , is a small, 253 m high basalt knoll near the core town of Gudensberg in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district . It is part of the Gudensberg threshold in the West Hessian Depression
The small hill, only slightly overgrown with some bushes, is located in a field and meadow landscape between the Gudensberg town center and the Dissen district , around 750 m south of the Scharfenstein and around 200 m west of the Sonneborn spring, which is set in natural stone and feeds a Kneipp water treading facility . The deserted village of Unseligendissen is around 150 m to the southwest . The federal motorway 49 and the parallel K 6 district road pass around 150 and 200 m north of the Bußbalg.
It was and is still used today as a sheep pasture and is therefore partially fenced. Around the middle of the 9th century, basalt stones were also broken at the top. In the lower area on the slope side, the Bußbalg has a wide, semicircular, apparently artificial terracing, which is probably due to the former stone crushing.
Footnotes
- ↑ Werner Guth: “Dissen, Deute, Haldorf, Ritte, Baune, Besse. . . “- Onomastic considerations on an old North Essian place name saying. In: Journal of the Association for Hessian History , Volume 116, 2011, pp. 1-20 (here: 6)