Burgberg (Bad Laasphe)

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Castle Hill
(Castle)
View to the Burgberg summit

View to the Burgberg summit

height 563.2  m above sea level NHN
location near Bad Laasphe ; District of Siegen-Wittgenstein , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany )
Mountains Rothaar Mountains
Coordinates 50 ° 53 '7 "  N , 8 ° 20' 19"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 53 '7 "  N , 8 ° 20' 19"  E
Burgberg (Bad Laasphe) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Burgberg (Bad Laasphe)
particularities Hesselbacher Wallburg

The castle hill , also called castle , in the urban area of Bad Laasphe in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Siegen-Wittgenstein is 563.2  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Rothaar Mountains .

geography

location

The Burgberg rises in the southern part of the Rothaargebirge and in the southeast of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature reserve . Its summit is 1.6 km northwest of Fischelbach , 2.1 km west of Hesselbach and 1.9 km southeast of Bernshausen , all of which belong to Bad Laasphe. A nameless stream flows past to the north and the Gonderbach to the south , both of which flow into the Banfe near the mountains .

Natural allocation

The Burgberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) and in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland) (333) to the subunit Südwittgensteiner Bergland ( Wittgensteiner Lahnbergland ; 333.2). The landscape leads to the west into the natural area Ederkopf-Lahnkopf-ridge (333.01).

Mountain height

The castle hill is 563.2  m high. In the vicinity of the summit, the height indication "558.3" can be found on topographic maps and a trigonometric point at 555.3  m height about 60 m east-southeast of this point .

Landscape protection

Parts of the Bad Laasphe landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 555558490; designated 1987; 122.9381  km² ) are located on the Burgberg .

Hesselbacher Wallburg

On the summit region of the castle hill was the Hesselbacher Wallburg , which was built by the Celts or Teutons . The construction and use of the complex, which is surrounded by a ring wall, is dated to the La Tène period or the third century BC . Its egg-shaped interior is 250 m long and 120 m wide.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Gerhard Sandner: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 125 Marburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1960. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  3. Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )

Web links

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