Doerenberg
| Doerenberg | ||
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 View from Borgberg eastwards over Hagen - Mentrup |
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| height | 331.2 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Oesede ; District of Osnabrück , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Teutoburg Forest | |
| Dominance | 50 km → Tönsberg | |
| Notch height | 210 m ↓ Bielefelder Pass | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 10 '33 " N , 8 ° 3' 12" E | |
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| rock | Osning sandstone | |
| particularities | - Hermannsturm ( AT ) - radio tower of the Bundeswehr |
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The Dörenberg is 331.2 m above sea level. NHN high mountain near the Georgsmarienhütter district of Oesede in the district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony . It is the highest point in the central part of the Teutoburg Forest . The Hermannsturm and a radio tower of the Bundeswehr stand on it .
Origin of name
The term Dören could be derived from Dör , the Low German word for mountain pass , especially in the Ostwestfalen-Lippe area .
geography
location
The Dörenberg rises in the Iburg Forest , which is part of the Teutoburg Forest, within the TERRA.vita nature and geopark . Its summit is located 2.1 km south-south-west of the Georgsmarienhütte district of Oesede , to which it belongs, and 2.2 km north-north-east of the center of Bad Iburg's core town; the border between the two districts runs close to the summit over the southern flank of the mountain. The federal highway 51 runs over the eastern flank between Oesede and Bad Iburg in a north-north-east-south-south-west direction , from which you can get to the mountain top on forest paths. Parts of the Teutoburg Forest conservation area ( CDDA no. 329212; 2004 designated; 113.699 km² ) are located on the mountain .
Natural allocation
The Dörenberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Lower Weserbergland (No. 53), in the main unit Osnabrücker Osning (534) and in the subunit Ohrbecker Heights (534.0) to the natural area Dörenberg (534.01). Its landscape falls to the southeast into the natural area Vessendorfer Heights (534.11) and to the south-west into the natural area Gellenbecker Hügel- und Bergland (534.10), both of which belong to the subunit Tecklenburg-Ibürger Bergland (534.1). To the north it leads in the main unit Osnabrücker Hügelland (535) and in the subunit southern Osnabrücker Hügelland (535.4) to the natural area Öseder Mulde (534.41).
Flowing waters
The Schlochterbach rises to the east of the Dörenberg as a tributary of the Düte , into which the Oeseder Bach ( called Sunderbach in the upper reaches ) flows on its northwest flank and flows through Oesede ; the latter is fed by the Windchenbrinkbach swelling on the north flank. On its southwest flank is the source of the Kolbach, fed by another Sunderbach and running through Bad Iburg, the right source brook of the Glaner Bach .
Towers
Hermannsturm
On the Dörenberg stands the Hermannsturm , from which you can see from 352 m above sea level. NHN can enjoy the view to the southeast over the Teutoburg Forest, to the south to the Münsterland and to the north to the Wiehengebirge . The tower has been closed since October 4, 2016 due to construction defects. On the 2.8 km north-westerly Lammersbrink standing Varus tower . Both observation towers are connected by a hiking trail, the Kammweg .
Radio tower
There is also a military area of the Bundeswehr with a radio tower on the Dörenberg . After World War II it was owned by the British occupation . In the meantime, the area has also been used by the Royal Air Force and a youth hostel in parallel . The Grafensundern telecommunications tower is located on the neighboring Grafensundern .
Striking stones
Surveying stone of the Kingdom of Hanover
Next to the Hermannsturm there is a trigonometric measuring stone of the Kingdom of Hanover . He formed a corner of the main network of triangulation of the kingdom between 1821 and 1844. It was carried out by Carl Friedrich Gauß (1777-1855); his son Joseph Gauß (1806–1873) made it on the Dörenberg .
Schnatgangstein
A memorial stone for the Schnatgang that runs there was set up on Karlsplatz, west-northwest of Dörenberg, a crossroads of several hiking trails . It bears the inscription Schnautgang 2002 Bad Iburg , whereby Schnautgang is the name of the Schnatgang in Bad Iburger Low German .
Bennosteinbruch
At the level of the lower end of the zigzag path was the Bennosteinbruch, named after Bishop Benno II of Osnabrück , the founder of the Benedictine monastery in the double complex of Iburg palace and Benedictine abbey . The sandstone quarry was developed under his management and served to procure building material for the monastery and for other buildings in Bad Iburg and the surrounding area. The quarry is overgrown, but still recognizable in its complex. A sign tells the story of the Osning sandstone quarry , which was formed around 120 million years ago.
Holy House
On the southeast slope of the Dörenberg there is a little holy house ( ⊙ ) , 140 m west of federal highway 51 . It is located at almost 215 m above sea level on Sachsenweg - above the Gasthaus zum Dörenberg , a traditional hotel-inn with a café-restaurant. The small chapel was donated by the Hermann Bäumker family. It was restored in 1998. In the building there is a figure of Mary carved from wood.
Air crash in 1962
On January 18, 1962, a Focke-Wulf Piaggio P.149D of the Luftwaffe with three occupants crashed on the Dörenberg ; two were killed, the third survived seriously injured. A memorial plaque on the zigzag path, which leads from Karlsplatz to the west of the mountain peak, commemorates the accident in the direction of Bennosteinbruch. It bears the inscription: “ On January 18, 1962, an airplane crashed at this point. Two young aviators aged 24 and 26 were killed. “The memorial plaque is below the first turn of the zigzag path.
panorama
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Sofie Meisel: Geographical Land Survey: The natural space units on sheet 83/84 Osnabrück / Bentheim. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. → Online map (PDF; 6.4 MB)
- ↑ Telecommunication station on the Dörenberg
- ^ Danica Pieper: Lecture on Carl Friedrich Gauß: How the surveying stone came to the GMHütter Dörenberg. In: noz.de. March 9, 2015, accessed December 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Geology and mining of natural resources in Bad Iburg - Geology Dörenberg. In: geo-iburg.de. June 22, 1903. Retrieved January 3, 2017 .
- ↑ [1] Eckhard Speetzen: Osning sandstone and Gault sandstone (Lower Cretaceous) from the Teutoburg Forest and the Egge Mountains and their use as natural building blocks (PDF file)
- ^ Siegfried Wache: F-40 Piaggio P-149D, Aircraft of the Bundeswehr , Arbeitsgemeinschaft Luftwaffe (AGL) eV, page 39
- ↑ ASN Wikibase Occurrence # 76299. In: aviation-safety.net. Retrieved August 31, 2016 .
