Gerholdsberg
| Gerholdsberg | ||
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| height | 355 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Nieste ; District of Kassel , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | West Hessian mountainous region | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '35 " N , 9 ° 38' 39" E | |
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| rock | Red sandstone | |
| particularities | Place of the former Sensenstein Castle | |
The Gerholdsberg near Nieste is a mountain in the Kassel basin in the north Hessian district of Kassel , about 355 meters above sea level , directly south of the border with southern Lower Saxony .
geography
location
The Gerholdsberg is located in the east of the Kassel basin near the western foothills of the Kaufunger Forest in the northwest of the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land (Werra Valley.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) . It is located between Uschlag in the north-west and Dahlheim in the north-east (both to the Lower Saxony municipality of Staufenberg ) as well as Nieste in the east, Kaufungen in the south-south-west and the somewhat distant Niestetal district of Heiligenrode in the west (all three in the Kassel district). The mountain belongs to the North Hessian municipality of Nieste; its northwest flank and the north flank reaching down to the Nieste borders on the southern Lower Saxony community of Staufenberg. The Mühlenberg ( 351.8 m ) is about 1.25 km to the west .
To the northeast and north past the mountain flows through the villages of Nieste and Dahlheim, the Fulda tributary Nieste, which runs approximately in a southeast-northwest direction .
Northwest of Gerholdsbergs is in the transition area to Muhlenberg one corner of the protected landscape Weserbergland Kaufunger Forest ( CDDA -No 325317;. Reported in 1989; 285.018 square kilometers in size).
Natural allocation
The Gerholdsberg heard in the natural environment feature unit group West Hesse Highlands ( West Hessian mountain and lowering farm ; no. 34) and in the main unit West Hesse Depression (343) for subunit Kassel pool (343.3). In an easterly direction the landscape leads into the neighboring main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), into the main unit Fulda-Werra-Bergland (357) and into the subunit Kaufunger Wald and Söhre (357.7) with the natural area Kaufunger-Wald-Hochfläche (Vorderer Kaufunger Wald) (357.71) above.
Mountain height
The Gerholdsberg is about 355 m high. This is indicated on topographical maps by the last contour line below the summit . A trigonometric point is located at a height of 350.4 m to the south of the sports field near the summit (see section mountain description ) .
Mountain description
The northern flank of the Gerholdsberg and parts of its crest are forested. The other parts of the mountain are not forested and are used for agriculture. Sensenstein Castle has been located on the hilltop since 1372 , the remains of which were demolished in 1677. Nowadays the youth castle Sensenstein is located there (since 1962) and also the sports education facility of the district of Kassel , which jointly use education, conference and guest houses as well as sports facilities such as gymnasium, swimming pool and sports field.
On the east and north-east slopes, in the direction of the Nieste, there were iron mines in the Middle Ages - several pingen fields in which iron ore was mined. Also on the eastern slope are the Niester Giant ( Natural Monument ), including redwoods and coastal pines , coastal Douglas fir and Canadian hemlock . The acorn gardens , two planting ridges , were located on the north-west slope since 1750 , in which oaks , and some spruces , were used for forestry purposes. A little below or to the east of it is the Sensensteiner Mühle . Between the mill and the mountain top is the Rottenbreite (also called Rotte Breite ), where the Rotte Breite leisure center was located until the end of 2011 .
Transport links
District road 4 (Heiligenrode – Nieste) leads across the southern high elevations of Gerholdsberg in a west-east direction - with a parking lot for hikers a little south of the summit . This meets the Nieste in the northeast (in the valley of the Nieste) with Oberkaufungen in the south-southwest (in the valley of the Losse) , about 650 m south-southwest of the dome at a height of 312.8 m ; there is the Niester Riesen hiking car park and the bus stop of the same name. The Hessian state road 5, coming from the western Heiligenrode, runs through the northern Niestetal , which merges into the Lower Saxony L 563 leading through Uschlag and Dahlheim, and then through the Hessian village Nieste as L 3237.
hike
Field, forest and hiking trails that lead around and on the Gerholdsberg branch off from the aforementioned roads. The eco path Archeology Sensenstein runs over its summit and the north and east flanks, and meets the Herkulesweg and Märchenlandweg on the summit . The 11.5 km long premium path Niester Riesen , which has been running around and over the mountain since May 2014 , crosses some of the above-mentioned paths as a circular path and was originally only 5.5 km long.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f 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)
- ↑ Medieval iron mines on Gerholdsberg , on the website of the Eco path Archeology Sensenstein (eco-pfade.de)
- ↑ Acorn Gardens on the Gerholdsberg , on the website of the Eco Path Archeology Sensenstein (eco-pfade.de)
- ↑ Eco path Archeology Sensenstein , on eco-pfade.de
- ↑ EntdeckerTour Premiumweg P11 Niester Riesen , on naturparkfrauholle.land