Galgenberg (Schorndorf)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gallows Mountain
View of the west side of the Galgenberg

View of the west side of the Galgenberg

height 354.1  m above sea level NHN
location Rems-Murr-Kreis , Baden-Wuerttemberg
Mountains Virgin forest
Coordinates 48 ° 47 '57 "  N , 9 ° 32' 46"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 47 '57 "  N , 9 ° 32' 46"  E
Galgenberg (Schorndorf) (Baden-Württemberg)
Galgenberg (Schorndorf)
Type Zeugenberg
rock Keuper ; Pebble sandstone

The Galgenberg is a 354.1  m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the southeastern urban area of Schorndorf . It was the location of the Schorndorf execution site and a chapel and is now a protected landscape area.

geography

The Galgenberg is located about 1.3 km southeast of the Schorndorf market square about 100 m above the Remspegel . The keuper - witnesses mountain whose tip is made of harder siliceous sand stone consists is a nearly 20 m deep saddle with one to Fraunberg withdrawing Sporn the Schurwaldstrasse plateau connected. In terms of natural space, it belongs to the Schurwald and Welzheimer Wald natural areas .

State road 1147, which connects Schorndorf with Adelberg , Wangen and Göppingen , runs through the north and east slopes of the Galgenberg . From this street branches off a residential street ( Frauenbergweg ), which runs west or south of the elevation and south-east again in the above-mentioned. Sattel meets the same state road.

history

In 1465 a chapel - vnder dem galgen kappellin - is mentioned for the first time, which perished after the introduction of the Reformation . A chapel in front of the Oberthor consecrated to Our Lady is probably identical to the Galgenberg chapel and would explain the alternative name of the mountain ( Frauenberg , also a field name on the northern slope). Today Frauenberg is the name of a significantly higher elevation, which is a good one kilometer southeast of the Galgenberg.

Landscape protection area

With the ordinance of November 4, 1968, the summit of the Galgenberg was designated as a landscape protection area (No. 1.19.017) on an area of ​​9.7 ha under the name Galgenberg - Frauenberg . A FFH area (No. 7222341 - Schurwald ) is immediately adjacent to the south , so that a larger area is protected. A smaller part of the summit is also recorded as a natural monument summit of the Frauenberg (Galgenberg) (No. 81190670055).

See also

swell

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Rudolph Friedrich von Moser: Description of the Oberamt Schorndorf . Ed .: Royal Statistical-Topographical Bureau. JB Müller's Verlagshandlung, Stuttgart 1851, p. 99 ( online at Wikisource ).
  3. ^ Geological map of Baden-Württemberg. (Geological State Office Baden-Württemberg). Sheet 7123. 1972
  4. ^ Adolf Schahl, Johannes Gromer: The art monuments in Baden-Württemberg: Rems-Murr-Kreis. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-422-00560-9 .

Web links