Dachsberg (Westerwald)

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Dachsberg
height 362.2  m above sea level NHN
location North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
Mountains Westerwald
Coordinates 50 ° 39 '6 "  N , 7 ° 20' 37"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 39 '6 "  N , 7 ° 20' 37"  E
Dachsberg (Westerwald) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Dachsberg (Westerwald)
Dachsberger See (2011)

The Dachsberg is 362.2  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Niederwesterwald . It is located on the Asbach plateau in the Bad Honnef district of Aegidienberg south of Wülscheid and east of the federal highway 3 .

In the middle of the 19th century, the mining of columnar basalt began on the Dachsberg . Initially operated by tenants from the area, mining was intensified from 1877 onwards by Louis Weinstock from Linz . Weinstock and Wilhelm Sonnenschein from Werden / Ruhr founded the "Basaltgewerkschaft Honnef" in 1895 and leased the northern part of the Dachsberg called the Großer Dachsberg and the southern part called the Kleiner Dachsberg . Since 1879, the extracted basalt has been transported by a narrow-gauge railway to Rottbitze and from there by horse-drawn cart to Bad Honnef. In 1895 the railway line was extended from Rottbitze to Servatiushof and from there it was continued as a horse-drawn tram through the Schmelztal valley to just before Bad Honnef. From 1905 the transport took place on the connecting line newly built by the Honnef trade union from the Bröltalbahn station in Rostingen via Gratzfeld , Wülscheid, Orscheid and Rottbitze. In 1912, a track was finally added to the Kleiner Dachsberg. It was about half a kilometer long and led north past the existing track a little lower down. In 1914 the Basalt-Actien-Gesellschaft in Linz took over the entire operation of the Honnef basalt trade union. The railway line from Rostingen to Rottbitze was taken over by Bröltaler Eisenbahn AG in 1921.

Basalt mining on the Dachsberg ended for the time being in 1929/1930. In 1937 the dismantling work began again, with the transport now being carried out by truck. After the Second World War , the business was resumed with changing tenants before it was finally closed in 1968. He left a basalt lake , the Dachsberger See ( water level : 329  m above sea level ). It is open to the public and is also used as a swimming lake. At the foot of the Dachstein mountain is named after him and was built in 1955 Dachberg chapel whose predecessors date back to the year 1809th

Web links

Commons : Dachsberg  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Information according to the digital terrain model and digital topographic map 1: 25,000, 1: 50,000 and 1: 100,000 (available in the TIM-online map service )
  2. Carsten Gussmann, Wolfgang Clössner: The Heisterbacher Valley Railway and industrial railways in the Siebengebirge area. Freiburg im Breisgau 2006, ISBN 978-3-88255-456-4 , p. 40 ff.