Butterberg (Bischofswerda)
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.JPG) View of the Butterberg from the direction of Rammenau |
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| height | 384.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Bautzen district , Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 9 '21 " N , 14 ° 11' 3" E | |
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| particularities | Mountain restaurant with a lookout tower | |
The Butterberg is 384.1 m above sea level. NHN high local mountain of Bischofswerda in Upper Lusatia in the Saxon district of Bautzen .
location
It is located about three kilometers north of the center of the city. In the east lies its district of Schönbrunn , in the north Burkau flanks the Butterberg, in the west it borders on Rammenau and the Burkauer Berg. The neighboring 369.7 m above sea level is five hundred meters to the south-east . NHN high Scherflingsberg ( Schärfling ). After Geißmannsdorf the mountain gradually flattens out, while it drops off steeply after Burkau.
On the summit of the Butterberg there is a mountain inn, which was opened in 1860 with a twenty-one meter high observation tower.
Two hiking trails meet on the Butterberg. The Lausitzer Landweg was laid out in 1912. It runs from the Kamenzer Hutberg to the high forest in the Zittau Mountains . The Northern Ridge Trail has existed since 1911, starting at Keulenberg near Oberlichtenau and leading to the Landeskrone near Görlitz . The Kammweg is also called “Diebssteig” here and is crossed by the Feme or Lynchgerichtsweg , which comes from Burkau. Not far from this intersection is a stone cross with an incised dagger. According to legend, a Hans Ziegenbalg from Burkau is said to have killed his godfather here. According to other traditions, the stone marks the Bischofswerda execution site or the border between the former Meißner and Oberlausitz area.
Two rock groups protrude about three hundred meters northwest of the mountain restaurant at 350 to 370 meters above sea level. NN from the slope. The rocks called Katzensteine are made of two- mica granodiorite and are three and a half meters high and twenty meters long. Boundary stones have been preserved in the vicinity, one of which dates from 1773 and shows two episcopal crooks crossed as in the city's coat of arms .
On the eastern flank of the mountain is another mountain inn , the hunting lodge .
history
In 1544 the town of Bischofswerda acquired the Butterberg from the manor owners on Pickau , the Bolberitz brothers .
Origin of name
The origin of the name is shown in the following two reports:
According to a legend, the mountain is said to have got the name "Butterberg" during a great plague epidemic. The worst of the plague raged in Bischofswerda and the surrounding area between 1577 and 1586, when six hundred of the town's thousand inhabitants died. The residents of the surrounding villages did not dare to enter the city. Therefore, grain, flour, eggs, milk and butter were brought up to the mountain, where the inhabitants of Bischofswerda picked them up. So that dealers and buyers did not come into close contact, water vessels were set up into which the money for the butter had to be thrown. To protect themselves from the contagious plague, the traders washed the money with brooms. The goods were pushed with crutches from afar to buyers from the city.
The chronicler Karl Wilhelm Mittag attributes the name to a Sorbian origin. The name is said to be derived from the sun god "Jutrow". The Sorbs would later have made “Butrow-” and the Germans “Butterberg” from the “Jutrowberg”.
Hydrology
The Butterberg forms part of the watershed between the right-hand Elbe tributaries, Wesenitz and Schwarze Elster . To the west it drains over the Kreuzwasser (and the Gruna ) and to the south over the Hustegraben to Wesenitz. The cloister water flows to the north and the silver water to the east (over the black water ) to the Black Elster.
literature
- Karl Wilhelm Mittag : The Butterberg . In: Chronicle of the royal Saxon city of Bischofswerda . Friedrich May, Bischofswerda 1861, p. 611–616 ( digitized in the Google book search; full text in Wikisource ).
- Friedrich Bernhard Störzner : The Butterberg near Bischofswerda . In: What the Heimat tells . Arwed Strauch, Leipzig 1904, p. 474-476 .
- Hans Naumann: The Butterberg near Bischofswerda: for the 75th anniversary of its tower and its mountain inn. Friedrich May, Bischofswerda 1935.
- Butterberg. In: Lausitzer Bergland around Pulsnitz and Bischofswerda (= values of our homeland . Volume 40). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1983, pp. 108-109.
- Festschrift - Our butter mountain has a long tradition ; 150 years 1860-2010; Butterberg GmbH; Butterberg 1; 01877 Bischofswerda
Web links
- Information about the Butterberg on a private website about Schönbrunn / Lausitz
- Berg-Gasthof Butterberg Website of the mountain inn