Gickelsberg (Kamenz)

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Gickelsberg
Summit of the Gickelsberg (right: Heidelberg)

Summit of the Gickelsberg (right: Heidelberg )

height 209.6  m above sea level NHN
location Germany , Saxony
Mountains Lusatian highlands
Coordinates 51 ° 15 '47 "  N , 14 ° 5' 58"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 15 '47 "  N , 14 ° 5' 58"  E
Gickelsberg (Kamenz) (Saxony)
Gickelsberg (Kamenz)
Type Ridges
rock Greywacke
Primary school on Gickelsberg and former Olympic settlement (top right)

The Gickelsberg is a 209.6 meter high hill in the southeast of the city of Kamenz . The mountain consists of contact metamorphic Riphaean greywacke from the Kamenz series . The west-facing steep slope on Langen Wasser is planted with deciduous forest and has been under protection as an area natural monument since February 15, 2012. A Kamenzer Straße, “Gickelsberg”, and the primary school “Am Gickelsberg” were named after him. The built-up area was built in 1936, the year of the Olympic Games in Berlin and Garmisch-Partenkirchen , and was called the “Olympic settlement”.

Origin of name

The name of the Gickelsberg is derived from the word "watch". The mountain is said to have served as a lookout, as a "peep mountain". The little lounges and defense towers described in the work of Johann Gottfried Bönisch , which are said to have been on the mountain, can no longer be proven today.

Area natural monument

Below the school Am Gickelsberg on the southern edge of Kamenz in the breakthrough valley of the Long Water is the Gickelsberg area natural monument . The "protected hillside forest on greywacke , Grauwackeschutt and clay soils" covers about 0.68  hectares . The remaining forest of an oak-hornbeam forest on a dry, warm location is a typical representative of the natural vegetation potential of the colline or hill country levels.

Like the owl rock and the rock at the Kuckucksburg , the rocks at the Gickelsberg document the geomorphogenesis of the landscape around Kamenz.

Literature and evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Topographic map in the geoportal of the Bautzen district. In: cardomap.idu.de. Bautzen district office, accessed on May 28, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Teufelsberg. In: Western Upper Lusatia between Kamenz and Königswartha (= values ​​of our homeland . Volume 51). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-05-000708-7 , p. 49.
  4. ↑ Dr. Wolfram Leunert: Announcement by the Bautzen District Office about the promulgation of ordinances on the establishment of natural monuments . Kamenz, February 6, 2012. In: Landratsamt Bautzen (Ed.): Official Journal of the Bautzen District . No. 3/2012 . Dresdner Verlagshaus Druck GmbH, Kamenz March 31, 2012, p. 5 ( online [PDF; accessed on May 20, 2016]).
  5. ↑ a b c Ordinance of the Bautzen District Office for the establishment of the “Gickelsberg” natural monument . In: Saxon Law and Ordinance Gazette . No. 1/2012 , December 1, 2011, p. 5-7 .
  6. ↑ a b Katrin Kunath: Curious names on the trail - Episode 3 . The Gickelsberg. In: WochenKurier . April 16, 2014 ( online [accessed May 20, 2016]).