Gahrenberg
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 View from the Plattenweg in the Kaufunger Wald near Hann. Münden to the northwest to Gahrenberg in Reinhardswald, 9 km away |
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| height | 472.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Gutsbezirk Reinhardswald , district Kassel , Northern Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Reinhardswald | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 26 '36 " N , 9 ° 34' 17" E | |
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The Gahrenberg is 472.1 m above sea level. NHN after the Staufenberg ( 472.2 m ) the second highest mountain of the Reinhardswald in the north Hessian district of Kassel .
geography
location
The Gahrenberg is located in northern Hesse , 6 km north-west of Hann. Münden or southwest of Veckerhagen and 3.5 km (distances as the crow flies ) northeast of Holzhausen (eastern district of Immenhausen ). Its outermost eastern branch is the Steinkopf in the southeast part of the Reinhardswald estate , its south-southwestern is the Fuldataler Steinkopf . The Junkernkopf is to the northwest .
Natural allocation
The Gahrenberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37) and in the main unit Solling, Bramwald and Reinhardswald (370) to the sub-unit Reinhardswald (370.4). The landscape leads to the northeast and east into the subunit Weser breakthrough valley ( 370.3) and to the south into the subunit Mündener Fulda-Werra-Talung (370.6).
Flowing waters
Numerous short flowing waters arise on the Gahrenberg , including Elster , Mühl, Oster and Rattbach, which face the Fulda , as well as Hemelbach and Nasse and Trockenene Ahle, three brooks that flow into the Weser .
Mining
Mining was documented from 1575 on the high elevations of the mountain and lignite was mined underground from 1842 to 1970 . The lubricating charcoal , the so-called Kasseler Braun , which was incidentally required for color production , was also mined and, among other things, alum earth was extracted, which was needed by pharmacists as well as for dyeing and tanning . The fact that alum was mined can still be recognized today by the name of the alum pond located south-southeast of the mountain peak . In the last few years of operation of the local colliery (the Gahrenberg colliery ; also called Gahrenberg mine ), a seam about 1,800 m long, up to 500 m wide and 4 to 10 m thick , which from 1842 had a 250 m tunnel opened up, between 15,000 and 20,000 tonnes of workforce were reduced annually by a workforce of 30 to 40 people. About two thirds of the seam are still present.
The Gahrenberg colliery was operated by Habich's Sons in Veckerhagen . The paint factory (which still exists today) covered its energy needs with the extracted brown coal and the workers there used the aforementioned lubricating coal to produce paint. The collapse of the colliery and the displacement of coal led, among other things, to the increasing growth of oil , although a small part of the coal mining in the surrounding villages was still used extensively as domestic coal in the post-war period of World War II .
With the last shift on October 30, 1970, the last coal was extracted from the Gahrenberg. Then the conveyor systems were almost completely demolished and the tunnel entrance, the so-called tunnel mouth, closed. On December 14th of the same year the chimney was blown up and around this time the last open tunnel collapsed.
In mid-December 2007, the boiler house with shed-like extensions, which was last used by the Gahrenberg forestry depot (Hessenforst), was demolished because the last owner no longer had any use for the building and monument conservationists had no objections to its demolition.
Nowadays even the former Steigerhaus, which was seriously threatened with decay, no longer stands. It was demolished in 2008 because renovation was too expensive for the forest. In the region, this was heavily criticized, especially by people who are connected to mining on the Gahrenberg.
Transport links
The Gahrenberg can be easily reached via the 3232 state road that runs from Holzhausen through the Reinhardswald to Veckerhagen , from which a road branches off to Sababurg and Gottsbüren . From the Roter Stock car park, located in the forest just under 3 km north of Holzhausen at an altitude of 380 m , it is a 25-minute walk along the Alte Kohlenstraße forest path .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ Steigerhaus has been torn down (newspaper article from August 30, 2008; PDF; 445 kB)