German Olymp
| German Olymp | ||
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.jpg) View from the north-west towards Neuhaus over the |
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| height | 62 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at watermill ; District of Cuxhaven , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Wingst | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 44 '32 " N , 9 ° 4' 34" E | |
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| Type | moraine | |
| particularities | - Wingst geomagnetic observatory - German Olympus observation tower |
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The German Olympus , formerly called Fahlenberg , near the Wassermühle district of Wingst in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven is about 62 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the Wingst ridge . The Deutscher Olymp observation tower is located on its summit .
Geographical location
The German Olympus is located in the northeast of the Wingst ridge between the Land Hadeln in the west and the Kehdinger Land in the east . It rises gently over the north-east and east of Wingster district Wassermühle. Its crests, north-east ( 62 m ) and south-west ( 55 m ), are about 100 m apart. Between the observatory and the observation tower (see below) there is a trigonometric point at a height of 53 m and the zoo in the Wingst on the eastern flank of the elevation .
history
The German Olympus emerged as an Ice Age moraine of the Wingst ridge. It got its name in 1852 from an innkeeper who renamed the hill previously called Fahlenberg .
Wingst Earth Magnetic Observatory
The Wingst Earth Magnetic Observatory has stood on the south-west summit of the German Olympus since 1938 and was operated by the German Research Center for Geosciences in Potsdam from 2004 to 2019 as an outstation of the Adolf Schmidt Observatory in Niemegk . This recorded the amount and direction of the earth's magnetic field and, since 1944, determined indicators of the degree of magnetic interference.
German Olympus observation tower
The 29 m high Deutscher Olymp observation tower made of reinforced concrete stands on the north-east summit of the German Olympus , which has replaced a timber lattice tower in the same place since 1973. It was closed from autumn 2005 to February 2006 because the affiliated restaurant Deutscher Olymp was to be sold, but no buyer could be found for a long time. From summer 2006 the observation tower was opened temporarily in cooperation with the then Samtgemeinde Am Dobrock . In 2012 the tower was bought by the community of Wingst in order to reopen it as a destination after the completion of renovation measures. The observation tower has been open again since August 2014 and now has a lounge, a terrace, barrier-free access and appropriate toilets and a small kiosk.
A staircase leads to the viewing platform behind glass panes at about 90 m above sea level. NHN . From there the view falls into the Hadelner and Kehdinger Land , as far as the Elbe and the North Sea : With appropriate visibility conditions, you can see the Elbe with the ships on the way to Hamburg. A line of sight in the northwest is Cuxhaven with the telecommunications tower Friedrich-Clemens-Gerke-Turm and the twin towers of the St. Nicolai Church in Altenbruch . In the north you can see the North Sea, the Elbe, the estuary of the Oste and the coast of Schleswig-Holstein with the nuclear power plants at Brunsbüttel and Brokdorf and the large wind farms. In the northeast to the east the course of the Oste to Hemmoor can be perceived, in the southeast to the south the Geesthügel Westerberg and the Balksee can be seen. The Hadelner Marsch and its villages can be seen in the southwest to the west .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographic map: German Olympus. (No longer available online.) In: Website experiencing nature in Lower Saxony. Archived from the original on December 19, 2016 ; accessed on October 19, 2018 .
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Wingst Earth Magnetic Observatory. (No longer available online.) In: Internet site German Research Center for Geosciences - Helmholtz Center Potsdam. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014 ; accessed on October 19, 2018 .
- ↑ German Olympus observation tower. In: Website of the community Wingst. Retrieved October 19, 2018 .