Big giant mountain

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Summit of the Großer Riesenberg
View to the southeast along the high-voltage line, on the left the SKL Westerhüsen landfill , in the middle on the horizon Schönebeck (Elbe) , on the right foothills of the Frohser Berg

The Große Riesenberg is an elevation in the south of the city of Magdeburg .

The hill belongs to the district of Salbke and reaches a height of 89 meters. Beyendorf-Sohlen is to the west and Westerhüsen to the east . To the north of the Großer Riesenberg stretch the Sohlener Berge , from which it is separated by a valley cut, but to which it is usually counted as belonging. In the area of the valley an old extends Hohlweg from which it is assumed that he salt transport from the region of the aspic for at the same at Pötritz is located hub in context.

Immediately to the southeast of the hill is the parcel of Die Semmel , to the south the building of a former brickworks with an old clay pit.

A high-voltage power line runs directly over the summit. This keeps the top of the Great Giant Mountain free from vegetation. There is therefore a good view in southern directions.

Contrary to what the name suggests, the Großer Riesenberg is not the highest elevation in the vicinity either. The Sohlener Berge reach a height of 97.8 meters, the Frohser Berg 115.5 meters further south . The Kleine Riesenberg is located a little south of the Großer Riesenberg .

During the Second World War , the Heavy Reserve Battery Flaka Division 629 was located on the Großer Riesenberg from at least 1941 to 1945 . The unit, which was run as the s3 / 205 / III heavy flak battery from 1943 , was armed with four 8.8 cm guns and had a headlight unit and a locking or tethered balloon at its western end . A Würzburg radar was also used. The battery was probably used for the first time on the night of March 27-28, 1943. In the area of ​​the battery, which, however, overlapped with the areas of other batteries, three Allied aircraft were shot down. On January 21, 1944, a British Halifax crashed near Frohse , on March 24, 1944 a British Lancaster north of Welsleben and on August 12, 1944, according to other information on September 12, 1944, an American B-17 crashed near Ottersleben . Shortly before the end of the war, the flak was withdrawn.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 126 f.
  2. ↑ Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 196 f.
  3. ↑ Friedrich Kowalke in Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 470
  4. ^ Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 533
  5. ^ Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 532
  6. ^ E. Uhlemann in Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 499

Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '  N , 11 ° 39'  E