Galgenberg (Schwarzenberg)
| Gallows Mountain | ||
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| height | 556.6 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 '22 " N , 12 ° 46' 32" E | |
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| rock | Quartz , orthoclase , plagioclase , biotite , muscovite | |
The Galgenberg is an elevation in the west of the old town of Schwarzenberg in the Saxon Ore Mountains .
description
The Galgenberg north of the Rockelmann consists of medium-grain two-mica granite . This is made up of quartz , orthoclase , plagioclase , biotite and muscovite and is swarmed by numerous iron stone entrances. From 1757 to 1790, a total of 2069 Fuder Eisenstein was mined in the precautionary tunnel , which was used until 1900 and was later used to supply the city with water, and the Roter Löwe mine . Brown earth and partially existing pseudo-gleyed soil types that had formed on the weathered gravel of the granite rock were used as arable land until the 20th century. Since the middle of the 20th century, the flat top and the upper slopes of the Galgenberg have been covered with spruce , more rarely mixed with larch and pine . Sycamore maple , aspen , mountain ash , hazel and bird cherry grow mainly on the terraces at the forest edges .
One of the five places of jurisdiction of the Schwarzenberg rulership or office with ding chair , gallows and wheel , which was located on the hilltop, gave the hill its name. In 1964 a television converter was built on it .
literature
- About Aue, Schwarzenberg and Johanngeorgenstadt (= values of our homeland . Volume 20). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1972, p. 78.