Burgberg (Frankenhardt)

Castle Hill
	Castle hill seen from the south
height	534.8 m above sea level NHN
location	Baden-Württemberg District of Schwäbisch Hall Gde. Frankenhardt near Oberspeltach ; ; ;
Mountains	Swabian-Franconian forest mountains Burgberg Vorhöhen and Speltach Bay;
Coordinates	49 ° 7 '15 " N , 9 ° 58' 29" E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '15 " N , 9 ° 58' 29" E
particularities	Burgberg Tower

The castle hill is 534.8 m above sea level. NHN a striking elevation in the natural area of the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains . It is located near Oberspeltach in the Schwäbisch Hall district of Baden-Württemberg . The castle tower stands on the mountain .

geography

location

The castle hill rises in the area of the community Frankenhardt in the north of the Swabian-Franconian forest mountains; the municipality boundary runs at the north foot and the Kaiserlinde at the east foot to the city of Crailsheim . Its summit is 1.9 km north-northwest of the Frankenhardt village of Oberspeltach. The Herrenbach, a tributary of the Maulach , rises to the north , and the Lanzenbach , the left upper reaches of the Speltach , flows past it to the southwest .

Natural allocation

The Burgberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Swabian Keuper-Lias-Land (No. 10), in the main unit Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains (108) and in the subunit Ellwanger Mountains and Edge Heights (108.7) to the natural area Burgberg-Vorhöhen and Speltachbucht (108.71) ; he is joint name giver of the latter. The landscape leads to the north-west and north into the natural area of Haller Ebene (127.40), which belongs to the main unit group Neckar- and Tauber-Gäuplatten (12) and in the main unit Hohenloher and Haller Ebene (127) to the sub-unit Middle Hohenloher Ebene (127.4) . To the northeast it leads over to the Crailsheim Bay subunit (127.6).

Geology, landscape design

The elongated, flat and open leveling on the Burgberg is a reed sandstone plateau of the Stuttgart formation . The predominantly forest-free slopes of the hilltop rise in the middle of the extensive Burgberg forest, an approximately 9 km² forest area with a few small lakes.

Landscape protection area

In 1988 the 16.7 hectare protected landscape area Burgberg (1.27.060) was designated on the Burgberg , which is also classified as Schonwald. The purpose of protection is "the preservation of the typical character of the scenic and prehistoric castle hilltop and its surroundings, in particular the fruit tree meadows on the summit and on the slopes as well as the deciduous forest border around the open meadows and arable land and the prehistoric ring areas".

history

In the Celtic times a ring wall was built on the mountain ; the Burgstall Burgberg can be seen clearly in the terrain profile of the slope.
In the middle of the 15th century there was a pilgrimage to the Virgin Mary, carried out until 1521, after a shepherd had discovered a spring.
1465: The foundation stone was laid for the construction of a Marienkapelle (first documented in 1473), where a chaplain worked from 1499 to 1534 . A guest house and bath house was built for the pilgrims.
Around 1700: the dilapidated chapel was torn down
1629: Construction of a well on the castle hill
1748: Construction of a forester's house
1885: Construction of the first Burgberg tower
Pentecost 1932: Opening of a hiking home in the forester's house on the Burgberg It was partially occupied by the Crailsheim Air Base during World War II.
April 1945: The forester's house is hit by fire bombs and burns down completely.
1955: The Land Surveying Office of Baden-Württemberg erects a 16-meter-high, wooden survey signal on the mountain that serves as a provisional lookout point.

Burgberg Tower

1960/61: Construction of today's Burgberg tower
1976: Commissioning of the restaurant attached to the tower

Burgberg Tower

The first castle tower was built on the castle hill in 1885 . The current tower of the Swabian Alb Association dates from 1960/1961 and is 28 m high. A restaurant, which is only open on Sundays and public holidays, is attached, and there is a roofed but drafty rest area, the playground was removed in 2016 by the forestry department. From the viewing platform there is a panoramic view of the Limpurger Mountains , the Hohenlohe Plain , the Frankenhöhe and the Ellwanger Mountains ; in good visibility conditions the Odenwald , the Steigerwald and the Swabian Alb can be seen.

Traffic and walking

Four hiking trails converge on the castle hill. Among other things, it is passed by the Main-Danube-Bodensee-Weg , the main hiking route 4 (HW 4) of the Swabian Alb Association, and a Way of St. James . A cycle path surrounds it.

Others

The Burgberg-Tauber-Gau of the Swabian Alb Association is named after the castle hill .

A few hundred meters from the Burgberg summit, in the Crailsheim part of the Burgberg Forest, the commissioning of four wind turbines with a height of around 230 m is planned for the turn of the year 2019/2020. In February 2019, the tree felling and construction work began. A resident and the citizens' initiative Genie (= Against Sustainable Inefficient Energy) have submitted petitions to the state against the wind farm. They worry about noise pollution as well as nature and landscape protection.

literature

All around the castle hill - a font for hikers and friends of home . Stuttgart: Verlag des Schwäbischen Albverein , 1961. DNB 454232829
Jochen Weidner: Our castle hill - landmark and excursion destination in Hohenlohe-Franconia . Crailsheim: Baier Verlag, 2016, ISBN 9783942081443 .

Web links

Commons : Burgberg - collection of images

Burgberg observation tower , at frankenhardt.de
Burgberg , on albverein-burgberg-tauber.de
Map of Burgberg and the surrounding area on: State Agency for the Environment Baden-Württemberg (LUBW) ( information )
Map of Burgberg and the surrounding area with hiking trails on: Geoportal Baden-Württemberg ( information )

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

↑ Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)

↑ Geology according to the layers for Geological Map 1: 50,000 on: Map server of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )
↑ Ordinance of the Schwäbisch Hall district office on the "Burgberg" landscape protection area , on lubw.baden-wuerttemberg.de
↑ Jens Sitarek, "Green light" for tree felling in the Burgbergwald, in: SWP of February 8, 2019. URL: https://www.swp.de/suedwesten/landkreise/lk-schwaebisch-hall/_gruenes-licht_-fuers- tree-fall-29444830.html
^ Book presentation Burgberg (Südwest Presse), on swp.de

[DE_BFN-Karten-1] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[BfL-162-2] Wolf-Dieter Sick : Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 162 Rothenburg o. D. Deaf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)