Elisabethenstein
The Elisabethenstein is a rock formation in the Taunus that has been designated a natural monument . It is located in the municipality of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .
Geographical location
The Elisabethenstein is located in the Vortaunus and in the Taunus Nature Park . It is 2.7 km west-southwest of the Bad Homburg district Dornholzhausen , 2.1 km northwest of the Oberursel neighborhood Oberstedten and 1.3 km southeast of the summit of live head ( 480.1 m above sea level. NHN ) to about bis 310 315 m height at the Elisabethenschneise forest path . To the west next door is the Leopoldsbrücke leading over the Heuchelbach .
History and origin of name
The rock from which the Elisabethenstein is made, a quartz-cemented sandstone , comes from the Lower Devonian , i. H. from about 400 million years ago. The lithostratigraphic unit in question is called Taunus quartzite . This unity appears in many places on the southern edge of the Rhenish Slate Mountains , also in the form of other rock groups around the Elisabethenstein, e.g. B. the marble stone and the gold mine rock group . Due to the relatively high resistance to erosion of the sandstone, all of these rocks were naturally carved out of the subsoil during the Quaternary .
When the Elisabethenschneise was expanded, the Elisabethenstein had to be partially blown up in 1822.
The stone is named after Landgrave Elisabeth , wife of Friedrich VI. Before that it was called Eschbachstein.
Individual evidence
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- 55 (h11) Elisabethenstein. Archived from the original on March 1, 2016 ; Retrieved April 27, 2016 .
- Hermin Herr: Lexicon from the High Taunus . 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , pp. 25-26.
Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 8 ° 33 ′ 1.9 ″ E