Fuchsberg (shifting dune)
The Fuchsberg is a shifting dune in Saxony-Anhalt . The dune is located in the area of the city of Gommern .
It is the last large shifting dune of the former dune range between Gerwisch , Heyrothsberge , Menz and Gommern. Its original height is given as 70.3 m above sea level. It rises up to 20 m above the Kulk Lake, which lies at its feet .
Emergence
The dune was created from the Vistula Ice Age through the expulsion of sand from melt water deposits and the Magdeburg glacial valley and thus in the period from 150,000 to 10,000 years ago. Up until historical times, the sand was moved by westerly winds. The result is the steep north-east and the gently sloping south-west slope.
The original extent of the dune was much larger. It stretched north of Lake Kulk to the Gommerner Salzstrasse. Although the dune had been under protection as a natural monument since 1936 , large parts of the dune were demolished after 1945 in order to obtain building material for the reconstruction of the neighboring city of Magdeburg , which was badly destroyed in the Second World War . In this way most of the other dunes in the area disappeared.
Todays situation
After 1990 the dune was developed as a tourist destination. Nearby there are restaurants, a lookout tower built in 1992, the Gommern rock garden and a children's playground. The paths around the Kulk were paved.
Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 0 ″ N , 11 ° 49 ′ 24.5 ″ E