Hänscheberg
| Hänscheberg | ||
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| height | 393.1 m above sea level NN | |
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Germany , Saxony ( Görlitz district ) |
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| Mountains | Upper Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 1 '46 " N , 14 ° 31' 16" E | |
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| rock | Lusatian granodiorite | |
The Hänscheberg , also called Hentscheberg, is located south of the Neusalza-Spremberg locality in the district of Görlitz , ( Saxony ).
Location and name
This mountain with a height of 393.1 m above sea level is one of the highest elevations on the corridors of Neusalza-Spremberg. Due to its central location, it occupies an exposed position in the middle of the city corridor south of the Spree and the district of Sonneberg . His name cannot be derived from the Slavic ancestors or the later German colonists in the Lusatian mountains , but is more recent and personified. The nameless mountain was named at the end of the 17th century after the large Spremberger farmer Mathes Hentsch [e] (Hänsche), who is attested as the owner of property no. 196 from 1672 to 1693. This Hentsche is said to have made an outstanding contribution to the forest maintenance of the mountain and the creation of hiking trails. With this Hentsche, the family name in Spremberg disappeared, only "his" mountain reminds of him.
Geography and geology
The Hänscheberg, the common form of the name, is a double mountain. It is divided into an east and a west half, which are connected in the middle by a ridge. It consists of Lusatian granodiorite and is part of the Lusatian mountainous region. Its ridge allows a good view in a northerly direction of the city corridors of Neusalza-Spremberg and the adjoining mountain range of the Great Forest , the Hahne - and the Fuchsberg. In a southerly direction, the district of Sonneberg, the border forests to the Czech Republic and even the Jüttelberg (Jitrovnik) in northern Bohemia are visible.
The eastern and western halves of the mountain are completely forested (mixed forest with undergrowth), the ridge is partially. Meadows dominate the north and south slopes. Relics of a quarry in the "Westberg" remind us that granodiorite was mined here until the beginning of the 20th century, which was further processed by local stone-cutting companies. From the western slope of the Hänscheberg you can see the “Buchberg” (401 m), also called “Wauers Berg”, in the district of Sonneberg, followed by meadows and fields that stretch towards Oppach and the now defunct Czech Fugau (Fukov).
Several erratic boulders of different sizes are grouped on the top of the "Ostberg", the highest of which is popularly known as the "camel" because of its hump shape. This has recently overturned for inexplicable reasons. From the eastern slope you can see the urban elevations of the Lindenberg and the Stadtberg, the district of Neuspremberg and the adventure and forest pool of Neusalza-Sprembergs. The foothills of the Hänscheberg are bordered in the north and west by Sonneberger Straße, in the east by a field path west of the football field and in the south by a field path between Lindenstraße and Sonneberger Straße. Due to its water veins (groundwater, springs), the Hänscheberg became one of the drinking water reservoirs of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg.
history
The morphology of the Hänscheberg suggests that it is a Slavic rampart from the early Middle Ages, which served the surrounding residents as a refuge in times of war. Unfortunately, there is no archaeological evidence for this so far. Centuries later, the mountain proved to be a valuable source of drinking water for the city of Neu-Salza and the parent community of Spremberg. Since May 1, 1700, the young city has made use of the so-called “Richter's sources” near the Hänscheberg. On April 14, 1862 the local "Wendlers Quell" was added and on October 19, 1866 the "Winklers Quell". During the First World War, the Friedersdorf builder Clemens built an elevated tank for drinking water on the northern slope of the mountain in 1916. In 1906 Wilhelm Freund built a roofing felt factory nearby, which the entrepreneur Reinhold Günther later took over. The small factory was still producing under the name “Boesner's roofing felt” during the GDR era up to the turn of 1989. In the 1920s and 1930s, a row of houses with seven buildings was built on the "Westberg". A single one stands in the middle of the forest and is popularly known as the "Hexenhäusl".
Others
After the founding of the GDR on October 7, 1949, a unit of the German Border Police (DGP) was stationed in Neusalza-Spremberg , which built and used a shelter on the southern slope of the "eastern half" of the Hänscheberg to observe the German-Czech border. In the 1950s, a tall wooden pyramid-shaped observation point for national surveying (trigonometric point) was built on the "Ostberg", which existed until the 1960s and was then dismantled. In the 1980s, on the initiative of the Neusalza-Spremberg teacher couple Hartmut and Renate Hofmann (1927–2014), (1923–2013), both honorary citizens of the city, a winter sports facility with a ski lift and hut was built on the north slope of the Hänscheberg. On September 13, 1997, in the presence of the then mayor of the city Günter Paulik and the chairman of the local culture and homeland friends Gunther Leupolt, the inauguration of the “Alfred Förster Bank” took place on the mountain in honor of the deserved elementary school teacher and dialect curator Alfred Förster (1893 –1978), who lived and worked in Neusalza-Spremberg for a long time.
literature
- Walter Heinich : Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Spremberg and Schirgiswalde 1918.
- Gunther Leupolt : Alfred Förster Bank. Address by Gunther Leupolt on the occasion of the naming on September 13, 1997 . In: History and Stories from Neusalza-Spremberg, Volume 2, Ed .: Kultur- und Heimatfreunde e. V., Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2004, pp. 115–117
- Lutz Mohr : Neusalza-Spremberg and its monuments. About bizarre natural structures and stone witnesses of local history . In: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg . Volume 4. Neusalza-Spremberg: Kultur- und Heimatfreunde eV 2011.
- Theodor Schütze (Ed.): Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
- August Adolph Tuchatsch (ed.): Historical news about the city of Neu-Salza ... Ceremony for the 200th anniversary of the city. Neusalza 1870. Photomechanical reprint: Neusalza-Spremberg: Michael Voigt 2000.