Big falling stone
| Big falling stone | |
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 The Great Fallstone viewed from the northwest |
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| location | District of Harz , Saxony-Anhalt ( Germany ) |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 0 '25 " N , 10 ° 43' 36" E |
| Type | Broad saddle |
| rock | Shell limestone |
The Große Fallstein is a wooded ridge in Saxony-Anhalt in the Harz district in the area of the town of Osterwieck north of the Harz Mountains . The highest point is at 288 m above sea level.
geology
In terms of soil geography, the Großer Fallstein ridge belongs to the shell-and-limestone arches of the "Harlyberg-Fallstein-Huyberg-Hakel-Blankenburger Elevations". It is a broad saddle . On the western edge of the saddle, relatively weather-resistant chalk limestones come to the surface, which were carved out as a narrow ridge, the small fall stone . The name Fallstein can be traced back to numerous sinkholes that occur in the entire forest area of the Großer Fallstein, but especially in its northern part.
The larger individual elevations next to the 288 m high dome are the Hohe Fallstein with 286.7 m and the width stone with 278.6 m.
Wooded area
The Große Fallstein is a mixed forest characterized by beech , birch , oak and spruce . Lynx (2004) have been observed in the forest . The forest has an east-west extension of around four kilometers and a north-south extension of over five kilometers. It is located south of the Großer Bruch lowland area , through which the inner-German border used to run. The "Fallstein forest area" is a landscape conservation area ; an area of around 71 hectares is also designated as the “Großer Fallstein” nature reserve.
Name, history of use and settlement
The Fallstein is mentioned in 997 as a Felestein in an Otton deed.
At the northern edge of the Großer Fallstein (location Steinmühle ), travertine was mined until 1930 . From 1832 to 1849 the Große Fallstein was the location of station no. 20 of the Prussian optical telegraph line , a communication system between Berlin and the Rhine province .
There are many places near the forest, including Osterwieck , Hessen , Rhoden , Deersheim and Veltheim .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Landscape profiles Internet presence BfN (March 3, 2014) ( Memento of the original from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Gerald Patzelt: Collection of geological guides. Volume 96: Northern Harz foreland (Subherzyn), eastern part. Bornträger Brothers, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-443-15079-9 .
- ^ Robert Slawski: Ostfalen. Verlag Jörg Mitzkat, Holzminden 2007, ISBN 978-3-931656-90-4 , p. 11.
- ↑ Fritz J. Krüger (Ed.): Walks in the Earth History, Volume 19, Braunschweiger Land. Publishing house Dr. Friedrich Pfeil, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-89937-066-X , pp. 177-182.
- ↑ Information on the landscape protection area LSG0027 Fallstein at the State Office for Environmental Protection Saxony-Anhalt (PDF).
- ^ Benno Riechelmann: From Ackerhof to Großgut: Two centuries of economic development of the Veltheim manor in the Halberstadt district. Leipzig 1926.
