Dorm
| Dorm | |
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 The dorm at the top right, northeast of Königslutter am Elm |
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| Highest peak | Fuchsberg ( 181 m above sea level ) |
| location | at Groß Steinum ; District of Helmstedt ; Lower Saxony ( Germany ) |
| part of | East Brunswick hill country |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 17 ′ N , 10 ° 53 ′ E |
| Type | Narrow saddle |
| rock | Sandstone, marl, limestone, partly also gypsum, salt |
| Age of the rock | Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous-Neogene |
The dorm is 181 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the East Brunswick hill country . It is located near Groß Steinum in the Lower Saxony district of Helmstedt and near the district town of Helmstedt .
geography
location
The dorm is located in the Elm-Lappwald nature park and in the Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen Geopark . It rises 11 km northwest of the core city of Helmstedt and 5 km northeast of the core city of Königslutter am Elm . Around the ridge are the core town of Süpplingenburg in the south-southeast, with Barmke a district of Helmstedt, the core town of Rennau with the Rennau district of Trendel as well as Uhry and Beienrode in the northwest and with Groß Steinum in the southwest three districts of Königslutter am Elm. The ridge running in a south-east-north-west direction is about 7 km long and 3 km wide. Neighbors are the mountain ranges of Elm in the southwest, Elz in the southeast and Lappwald in the east and the Hasenwinkel region (also natural area) in the north. The Schunter flows along the south to west flank of the Dorm and its tributary Uhrau past it to the north .
Natural allocation
The Dorm belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Northern Harz foreland (No. 51), in the main unit East Brunswick Hügelland (512) and in the subunit Helmstedt-Oschersleben Mulde (512.2) to the natural area Dormhügelland (512.20). To the south, the landscape passes into the natural environment Helmstedter depression (512.21) above and to West southwest to something lying by the ridge and subunit Asse Elm Hill Country (512.1) counting natural space Elm (512.15).
To the northeast to the north, the landscape falls into the natural area Hasenwinkel (624.21), which belongs to the subunit Wolfsburg Hills and Plateau (624.2), and to the northwest into the natural area Schuntertal (624.10), which belongs to the subunit Schunterwinkel (624.1); Both subunits are part of the main unit group Weser-Aller-Flachland (62) and part of the main unit of the East Brunswick Plain (624).
Surveys
Elevations of the dorm are sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN):
- Fuchsberg (181 m), southeast of Beienrode and north of Groß Steinum ; with transmission mast / tower
- Schottorfer Berg (161 m), between Groß Steinum and Rennau
- Heineberg (160 m), northeast of Groß Steinum
Geology and archeology
The dorm is a narrow saddle that was created by halokinesis of Zechstein salts underground. The salt of the salt dome was extracted earlier. Relics of this former mining can still be found today in the form of the Glauber salt dumps not far from Beienrodes. On the surface are younger Triassic layers of red sandstone and shell limestone . The plasters of the Röt (upper red sandstone) are partly subroded and form a sinkhole zone . The rocks of the dorm resemble those of the Elms and Asse . For geology and archeology enthusiasts is Geology / nature trail Dorm of the open-air and experience the museum Ostfalen established that begins in the United Steinum. On its south-western edge lies the stone chamber of Groß Steinum , a large stone grave of the funnel cup culture , and two other graves that the path includes in addition to pits in shell limestone and red sandstone.
Protected areas and biology
Parts of the Mittlere Schunter landscape protection area are located on the Dorm (CDDA no. 322992; designated 1977; 39.77 km² ).
Since 2000, large parts of the ridge have been designated as the Dorm fauna-flora-habitat area (FFH no. 3731-331; 6.772 km²). In the area there are diverse forest complexes on limestone and sandstone with occurrences of near-natural beech and oak-hornbeam forests in different locations. There is also oak-hornbeam forest and small-scale sinkholes (of great importance for amphibians ), alder-ash forest and salt vegetation on Glauber's salt dumps. There are also tufa springs of a mesotrophic pond with chandelier algae, alder-ash forest and salt vegetation. In many areas, conifers from other sites are mixed in or in pure stands (especially spruce and larch). In some cases there is a lack of waste wood due to previous clear cuts.
Traffic and walking
The federal motorway 2 leads northeast past the Dorm with the high ridge junctions Rennau in the east and Königslutter in the northwest. Starting at these connections, you can bypass the ridge on state and district roads. Forest paths and paths, including the 4-Forests Loop (94 km; Dorm - Elm - Elz - Lappwald ), the Dorm geology / nature adventure trail , lead over and around the ridge.
Web links
- Open-air and adventure museum Ostfalen (FEMO), on femo-online.de
- Large stone grave at the dorm (English), on megalithic.co.uk
supporting documents
- ↑ Topographic map : Dorm ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (TK 100; heights according to the top contour lines in AK 5 / 2.5), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
- ^ Theodor Müller : Geographische Landesaufnahme: The natural space units on sheet 87 Braunschweig. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1962. → Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
- ^ Frank Schmidt-Döhl : Between Harz and Heide - mountains, ridges and landscape . Wartberg Verlag, Gudensberg-Gleichen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8313-2319-7
- ↑ a b Dorm Geology / Nature Experience Trail ( Memento of the original from March 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (6.64 km long), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de (PDF; 782 kB)
