Burberg

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Burberg
View from the south-east / protection to the Burberg

View from the south-east / protection to the Burberg

height 528.5  m above sea level NHN
location at protection ; Vulkaneifel district , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany )
Mountains Eifel
Coordinates 50 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 6 ″  O Coordinates: 50 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  N , 6 ° 45 ′ 6 ″  E
Burberg (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Burberg
Type volcano
particularities Summit region with Roman fortifications
Typical rocks on the Burbergkuppe

The Burberg , also called Buerberg and Bürberg , is 528.5  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Eifel . It lies with Schutz in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Vulkaneifel .

geography

location

The Burberg rises in the Vulkaneifel Nature Park and in the back bushes . The local parish of Schutz , to whose territory the mountain belongs, lies at its southeastern foot . 3.1 km west-southwest of the mountain summit is the core of the local community Weidenbach . The Walmerbach (Wallmerbach) flows past to the west and flows in Schutz into the Kleine Kyll , which runs east of the mountain in a north-south direction .

Natural allocation

The Burberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Eastern Eifel (No. 27), in the main unit Kyllburger Waldeifel (277) to the subunit Salmer Hügelland (277.3).

Others

The Burberg emerged as a volcano about 11,000 years ago . On the summit region there are remains of a Roman fortification from the 4th century AD.

On the mountain are part of the protected landscape area between Ueß and Kyll ( CDDA -No 326012;. 1982 expelled; 396.2312  square kilometers in size).

Individual evidence

  1. a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

literature

Karl-Josef Gilles: The Burberg near Schutz , Heimatjahrbucharchiv Landkreis Vulkaneifel, project of the district administration Vulkaneifel and Weiss-Verlag, Büro Daun, year 1984, p. 211, on the Internet: https://www.heimatjahrbuch-vulkaneifel.de/VT /hjb1984/hjb1984.94.htm