Heideberg (Zittau Mountains)
| Heideberg | ||
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| height | 549 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Free State of Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Zittau Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 50 '20 " N , 14 ° 47' 2" E | |
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| rock | Sandstone | |
The Heideberg ( 549 m ) is a mountain in the eastern part of the Zittau Mountains . Its wooded peak lies in the Eichgraben district in the city of Zittau .
location
The Heideberg is located northeast of Lückendorf on the other side of the municipal boundary with Eichgraben. To the west the mountain falls to the source of the Pfaffenbach and east to the valley of the Goldbach. To the east rises the Mühlsteinberg ( 482 m ), southeast the Straßberg ( 538 m ), south the Sommerberg ( 496 m ), southwest the Hochwald ( 749 m ), west the Brandhöhe ( 633 m ), the Scharfenstein ( 569 m ) and the Luisenhöhe ( 567 m ) and northwest of the Töpfer ( 582 m ) and the Zigeunerberg ( 510 m ). At the eastern foot, the state road S 132 leads from Eichgraben to Lückendorf ( Gabler Straße ) over the Stosssattel to the Mühlsteinberg, south of the Heideberg it crosses the Lückendorfer Pass at the Forsthaus Lückendorf.
The mountain is surrounded in the north by Eichgraben, in the northeast by Neuhartau and Görsdorf ( Loučná ), in the south by the forester's lodge Lückendorf, in the southwest by Lückendorf and in the west by Oybin .
description
The Heideberg is a little prominent, wooded mountain. On its summit, which does not offer a view, there is the "number stone" - a mighty sandstone rock. Numerous other smaller rocks protrude from its slopes. The mountain is located on a tectonic fault running westwards from the upper Weißbachtal over the Karlsfried , which turns sharply to the southwest on the Zigeunerberg and then continues below the Brandhöhe to the Fürstenhöhe. The “Schwarzes Börnel” spring is located on the northern slope of the Heideberg, and the König-Johann spring at the northeastern foot.
On the northern slope, the Haberkornweg leads from the Alte Gabler Straße via the Napoleonschmiede and Binis Hüttl in the Pfaffenbachtal to the Zigeunerberg. Coming from the hiking car park on the stoss, the Neue Heidebergweg runs around the summit to the forester's house Lückendorf. To the west, the city path leads through the Pfaffenbachtal.
history
A trade route led from Upper Lusatia over the Lückendorfer Pass to Bohemia since the early Middle Ages . This initially circumnavigated the Heideberg on various routes, both west through the Pfaffenbachtal and east over the shock. After Charles IV had the Karlsfried customs and escort castle built at the foot of the Straßberg in 1357 , in 1361 he ordered the use of the trade pass road over the butt under threat of penalties and made the remaining ravines impassable with ditches and ramparts.
Because of the very steep ascent and the poor condition of the Gabler Straße, which is partially paved with sandstone blocks, new ravines on the heather mountain slope repeatedly emerged over time. In 1581 the Zittau council decided to create a new path from Eichgraben up over the slope of the Heideberg to the hill next to the old path. The ascent, which was still too steep, led in the middle of the 19th century to a realignment of Gabler Straße east of the old road with a serpentine on the Mühlsteinberghang, which was completed in 1848.
Since the middle of the 19th century several millstone quarries have been operated on the western slopes of the Heideberg.
In the course of the "Heimatgeschichtliche Lehrpfad Lückendorf" created by the Lückendorf Association for the Promotion of Culture and Tourism in the Euroregion Neisse eV from 2003, the millstone quarry on the northwestern slope of the Heideberg was made accessible and information boards were set up. Are u. a. the loading ramp, the Napoleon smithy and several broken millstone blanks.
Napoleon forge
The Napoleon forge is a cave-like rock formation above the millstone quarry on the northwest slope. According to tradition, it is said to have served as a blacksmith's forge during the Napoleonic War when building the ski jumps at Lückendorfer Pass and Kalkberg. It is believed that the cave was used as a mountain forge for the millstone quarries on Heideberg and Zigeunerberg. There was an inscription on a rock wall inside.
Millstone table
The Mühlsteintisch, also called Steinerner Tisch, is a resting place at the eastern foot of the Heideberg. It is located on the joint at the upper exit of the hairpin bend at the junction with Alte Gabler Straße and consists of a millstone resting on a column and a semicircular stone bench. On the side of the millstone that serves as the tabletop, the year 1848 is carved.
The sandstone seat was built in 1848 after the completion of the new serpentine of Gabler Strasse on the northern slope of the Mühlsteinberg, with which the steep ascent from Brückborn to the saddle between Heideberg and Mühlsteinberg could be avoided.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1970, p. 223.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2016 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.
