Burgberg (Baunatal)
| Castle Hill | ||
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.JPG) View from the direction of Großenritte to the castle hill |
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| height | 439.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Großenritte ; District of Kassel , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Langenberge , Habichtswald | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 14 '56 " N , 9 ° 21' 36" E | |
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| Type | extinct volcano | |
| rock | basalt | |
| particularities | Ring wall system on the hilltop | |
The castle hill , also called castle , is 439.6 m above sea level. NHN high, extinct volcano in the Langenberg mountains belonging to the Habichtswälder Bergland . It is located near Großenritte in the north Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).
geography
location
The almost continuously wooded Burgberg rises on the eastern roof of the Langenberge directly west of the village of Großenritte, a western part of the Baunatal in the Kassel district . To the east, the landscape turns into the northern tip of the Edermünder municipality in the Schwalm-Eder district , in which parts of the Schwengeberg lie, the highest mountain in the Langenberge at 556.7 m . To the north of the mountain peak there is a water treading area, on its southeast slope there is a rather large basalt quarry.
Natural allocation
The Burgberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34), in the main unit Habichtswälder Bergland (342) and in the subunit Habichtswald (with Langenberg) (342.0) to the natural area Langenberg (342.02). The landscape falls to the northeast into the natural area Hoofer Pforte (342.01) and to the east into the subunit Kassel Basin (343.3), which belongs to the main unit West Hessian Basin (343 ).
history
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In the upper area of the castle hill there is a ring wall system with around 2.5 hectares of interior space. The ring wall was settled twice, first around 6000 years ago and then again during the Hallstatt culture between 800 and 400 BC. Because of particularly steep rock faces, the system had to be reinforced on one side.
On the eastern slope of the mountain, Prince Heinrich von Hanau , a son of Elector Friedrich Wilhelm I of Hesse-Kassel from his morganatic marriage to Gertrude von Hanau , had a hunting lodge built shortly before the end of the Electorate of Hesse . When annexation Kurhessen by Prussia in 1866 only had shell completed, and the building remained after ten years unused. It was not until 1877 that the so-called “Schlösschen” was used. The Renitente Church of the unchanged Augsburg Confession in Hesse , one of the predecessors of today's Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK), acquired the building in order to set up a deaconess house for old and sick people. Gertrude von Hanau, widow of the last elector and meanwhile Princess Hanau von und zu Hořowitz, was won over as the founding donor and signed the deed of foundation for the Hessian deaconess house named after her "Gertrudenstift". The dilapidated "Schlösschen" was demolished in 1972.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)