Gamigübel

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Gamigübel

The area natural monument Gamighübel ( FND 79 ) is an elevation ( 187  m above sea  level ) on a field northwest of the Dresden district of Kauscha and southwest of the district of Torna .

description

The Gamighübel is a dome made of granodiorite , which protrudes through the rock layers of the chalk ( plan layers from the Cenomanian and the Turonian ). It is the remnant of a cliff of a Cretaceous sea. Schill limestone and limestone marl are deposited in the cavities and rock pockets created by the surf .

The Gamighübel is overgrown with blackthorn and other rose plants , surrounded by limestone grasslands and dry oat meadows . Breeding pairs of the nightingale , goldenhammer and cuckoo could be observed on the Gamigübel.

The area of ​​the Gamighübel was placed under protection as a natural monument due to the rich fossil deposits and the special geological features (surf cliff).

history

The name Gamighübel appears for the first time in 1592 in the court book of Kauscha and Gaustritz . The name comes from the Slavic word kamjen for stone . Up until the 19th century, a pagan sacrificial site was located on the Gamighübel . This idea was rejected, however, as there are no reliable findings for it. The farmers of the surrounding villages Kauscha, Leubnitz and Torna operated several stone quarries in the area of ​​the Gamighübel from the 19th century. The mined granite rock was primarily used for building paths and roads. In the course of the quarry work, numerous fossils were discovered, these were described by geologists and naturalists Hanns Bruno Geinitz , Louis Agassiz and August Emanuel von Reuss , among others .

The road connecting Torna's eastern neighbor, Prohlis, to the Torna clay pits, was named Gamigstrasse in 1926 .

Fossil finds

Exposed rock on the Gamighübel

In the quarries on Gamighübel different fossils of marine life were the Cretaceous period , mainly due to the level of Cenomaniums (before 100.5 to 93.9 million years ago) found. Among other things, fossils of the following creatures were discovered:

Many of the specimens found on the Gamighübel are part of the collection of the Museum of Mineralogy and Geology Dresden .

The dwarfs from Gamighübel

According to a legend, a people of dwarves lived in Gamighübel , who mined for gold and precious stones in its interior. The hammer blows of the dwarfs are said to have been heard in the nearby village of Leubnitz when the weather was good. Through the construction of a church and the associated regular ringing of bells (another tradition: through "the expansion of the empire which is not of this world ") the dwarves were driven from the Gamighübel. On a moonlit night they went to the Elbe with their gold and their precious stones and had a ferryman take them across the river, for whom they richly rewarded. The dwarfs are said to have buried their treasures in the Helfenberg area.

literature

  • Karl Wanderer: The most important animal fossils from the chalk of the Kingdom of Saxony. Publishing house Gustav Fischer, Jena 1909.

Web links

Commons : Naturdenkmal Gamighübel Kauscha  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Cenomane surf cliff Gamighübel, Leubnitz. kreidefossilien.de - The Saxon-Bohemian Chalk, June 10, 2008, accessed on June 4, 2021 .
  2. ↑ a b Protected areas according to the Nature Conservation Act. In: Environmental Atlas. State capital Dresden, June 2014, accessed on June 4, 2021 .
  3. ↑ a b Tommy Kästner: News on the occurrence of the small hawk fly Dioctria longicornis Meigen, 1820 in Saxony (Insecta: Asilidae). In: Sächsische Entomologische Zeitschrift 8 (2014/2015), p. 223 ff.
  4. ↑ a b c d Lars Herrmann: Torna. dresdner-stadtteile.de, accessed on June 4, 2021 .
  5. ↑ Lars Herrmann: Gamigstraße. Streets and squares in Prohlis. In: dresdner-stadtteile.de. Retrieved June 4, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Alfred Meiche : The dwarfs at Gamighübel near Leubnitz . In: Book of legends of the Kingdom of Saxony . G. Schönfelds Verlagbuchhandlung, Leipzig 1903, p. 321 f .

Coordinates: 51 ° 0 ′ 3.6 ″  N , 13 ° 46 ′ 8.7 ″  E