Hörschelberg
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 View from the southwest of the "Thuringian Gate". The motorway bridge, inaugurated in 1984, leads over the Werra breakthrough valley with the Hörschelberg (right) and the Kielforst (left). |
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| height | 324.6 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 ′ 40 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 25" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone | |
| particularities | “Thuringian Gate”, motorway bridge, Boyneburgk monument, basalt passage at Hörschel station | |
The Hörschelberg is a mountain on the border of Eisenach and the Wartburg district in Thuringia . It is located in the Eisenach district of Hörschel and topographically marks the (western) “Thuringian Gate” with the neighboring Berg Kielforst with the Werra gorge between Hörschel and Pferdsdorf .
The Hörschelberg has a summit height of 324.6 m above sea level. NN and is part of the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park .
The mountain, which is completely wooded and used for forestry on the steeply sloping west and south sides, was needed in 1981/84 for the construction of the Hörschel bridge, which followed the former Wartha border crossing point in an easterly direction.Today there is a complex of motorway rest stops, commercial operations and other structures there . The agriculturally used northern slope extends to the state road L 1017 (formerly federal road 7a ).
On the summit with a former lookout point there is a rebuilt memorial stone for the former owner of the Deubachshof, Hans Ernst von Boyneburgk. In the 1990s, the Hörschelberg was cut through with the Hörschel road tunnel . The first solar power plant in the municipality of Krauthausen was built on the high plateau of the mountain in 2013, it extends parallel to the motorway to the Deubachshof industrial park.
Basalt passage at Hörschel station
On the southern slope is a geological outcrop that was created in the course of the construction of the Thuringian Railway in 1849 , the basalt passage at Hörschel station , which has been designated as a natural monument since 1966 . At this point about 25 million years ago in the period of the Young Tertiary, thin- bodied basalt magma rose in a fissure in the shell limestone . Today it can be seen as a black, almost vertical corridor in the middle of the almost horizontally stored limestone layers of the Lower Muschelkalk. The basalt is limburgite : augite, magnetite and larger olivine crystals in glass mass. The basalt dike is associated with the Stopfelskuppe near Förtha , the northernmost volcanic dome of the Rhön volcano. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is said to have already known him and commissioned his colleague CW Voigt to investigate it in 1797. When the railway line was expanded in the early 1990s, the basalt corridor was left open as a geological window in the newly built retaining wall.
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Boyneburgkdenkmal
Basalt passage at Hörschel station
West portal of the Hörschelberg tunnel
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
- ^ Geyer, Jahne, Storch: Geological sights of the Wartburg district and the independent city of Eisenach . In: District Office Wartburgkreis, Lower Nature Conservation Authority (Hrsg.): Nature conservation in the Wartburgkreis . Booklet 8. Druck- und Verlagshaus Frisch, Eisenach and Bad Salzungen 1999, ISBN 3-9806811-1-4 , The Werra breakthrough at Hörschel and the basalt passage at Hörschel station, p. 56-57 .
- ↑ Environment Office of the District Administrator Eisenach (ed.): Natural beauty in the district of Eisenach, Part 1: Geological natural monuments, pp. 26-27