Great castle hill
| Great castle hill | ||
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 Burgberg with the Burgberg cable car |
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| height | 483 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Bad Harzburg ; District of Goslar , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | resin | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 52 ′ 18 ″ N , 10 ° 34 ′ 2 ″ E | |
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| particularities | - Harzburg ruin - Canossa column - resin Say Hall - Castle Mountain cable car - Tree monorail |
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The Great Castle Hill is about 483 m above sea level. NHN high mountain on the northern slope of the Harz near the core town of Bad Harzburg in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony .
geography
location
The Große Burgberg is located on the northern edge of the Harz National Park . It rises east over the valley of the Radau and south of the Krodotal in Bad Harzburg. To the north is the Kleine Burgberg ( 436.5 m above sea level ), on which the ruins of the Kleine Harzburg are located. To the east- southeast lies the Sachsenberg (approx. 546 m ), on which there are traces of a rampart, and to the south, beyond the Cold Valley , the Ettersberg ( 500.1 m ).
Parts of the Harz landscape protection area (district of Goslar) ( CDDA no. 321402; 2001 designated; 38.975 km² ) are located on the forested Großer Burgberg .
Natural allocation
The Große Burgberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Upper Harz (380) and in the subunit Northern and Eastern Brocken foreland (380.6) to the natural area of Northern Brocken foreland (380.60). The landscape drops to the south-west to west into the natural area Radautal (380.5), and to the north-east it leads over to the natural area Ilsenburg Harzrand (380.70), which is part of the subunit Ilsenburg-Werniger or Harzrand (380.70). To the north, the landscape falls into the natural area Harzburg-Goslarer Vorberge (510 1 .40), which in the main unit group Northern Harz foreland (51) and in the main unit Harzburg Harz foreland (510 1 ) to the subunit foothills of the northern Upper Harz (510 1 .4 ) counts.
Buildings
On the plateau of the Großer Burgberg are the ruins of the Harzburg (also called Great Harzburg ), built between 1065 and 1068 , the Canossa column ( 482.8 m above sea level ), which was erected there in 1877 in honor of Bismarck . Next door standing resin Say hall with the 1928-1932 created resin say shrine , the filigree basis of an ensemble of 125 designed marble sculptures and images, a selection of known Harz legends presented. There is also the Plumbohms Aussichtsreich inn on the mountain , which is included as no. 121 in the system of stamping points for the Harz hiking nobility.
Harzburg ruins
( Great Harzburg )
Canossa column with a view to the northwest
Harzsagenhalle
Traffic and walking
West past the Great Castle Hill which runs Radautal federal highway 4 that the car park at the valley since 1929 moving up the mountain Castle Mountain cable car passes. The European long-distance hiking trail E11 leads north past the Großer Burgberg and the Kleine Burgberg in front of it and through Bad Harzburg . The Herzogsweg runs over the western and southern slopes . From the mountain the view falls, past the Kleiner Burgberg, onto Bad Harzburg and into the northern Harz foreland , and you also look to the east, south and west over the wooded Harz.
Tree suspension railway
The BaumSchwebeBahn HARZ was opened on August 1st, 2020 . With the new attraction, passengers can float from the 483 meter high Großer Burgberg over a distance of around 1,000 meters into the valley and view the forests of the Harz from the air. Hanging on a strap, it goes at a maximum of 15 kilometers per hour through the Cold Valley to the end of the treetop path near Bad Harzburg.
Web links
- The Great Castle Hill , at: bad-harzburg.de
- Burgberg cable car , at: bad-harzburg.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Mountain height according to the topographic map ( memento from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
- ↑ a b Harzsagenhalle , on harzsagenhalle.de
- ↑ a b Location height Canossa column and mountain height Kleiner Burgberg according to the German basic map (M = 1: 5,000, topographical map), Lower Saxony State Surveying Office, Ed. Georg Westermann Verlag, Braunschweig, 1976; at that time was still sea level (MSL)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 121 / Burgberg prospect , on harzer-wandernadel.de
- ↑ Large crowds for the opening of the tree suspension railway NDR August 1, 2020, accessed on August 24, 2020.