Heidelberg station
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The Heidelbergwarte is the remainder of a historical rock observatory in the western part of the Teufelsmauer in the northern Harz foreland near Blankenburg in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
It is located directly on the ridge of the Teufelsmauer, about two kilometers southeast of Blankenburg am Heidelberg at an altitude of 258 meters above sea level . Immediately on the north side of the Heidelbergwarte the ridge path of the Teufelsmauer leads past. The control room is accessible from here.
Plant and history
The Heidelbergwarte was created in the 13th century. The remains that have been preserved today appear as a room knocked out of the devil's wall. The original beam bearings as well as steps and recesses can still be seen . On the north side, a half-timbered wall closed off the small lounge. At a height of about 80 centimeters was the entrance door, which was accessible via a small ladder. In the eastern and western side walls, carved into the rock, there are rectangular depressions that are rounded off at the top. They are likely to have been used to hold light sources or personal items. To the south there is a window opening carved into the rock.
Imprints of a ladder can be seen on the floor. It is therefore assumed that the room that was preserved was only the lower floor of the control room. Presumably the roof of the control room and the rocks of the devil's wall adjoining to the east and west could be reached from here through a hatch. At the time the control room was in operation, the Teufelsmauer was largely unwooded.
The original task of the Heidelbergwarte is disputed today. Some believe that it was used to monitor the trade route running along the south side of the Teufelsmauer in the Sautrog valley .
Other authors, however, see the protection of a settlement located on a plateau south of the control room as the actual task. The monitoring function would then have extended more to the northern Harz foreland. The window opening that is still preserved today would then have had less of an observation function, but simply served as a light opening. In fact, on the south side there is an area 100 meters long and 20 meters wide that can only be reached through narrow entrances. On this area there are signs that there were originally buildings, especially pit houses, and thus a small village. For this function, i.e. the observation to the north, it is also stated that attacks from the impassable south and the mountainous Harz mountains there were not to be expected.
literature
- Axel and Volker Mothes: Harzer Klippen- & Stiegenwelt, Volume I , Stiegenbuchverlag Halle (Saale) 2011, page 158 f.
- Jörg Reimann, Falzes, Castles and Palaces in and around Blankenburg , Ed .: HISTORY 4 YOU, Blankenburg 2015, page 89 ff.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jörg Reimann, Pfalzen, Burgen und Schlösser in and around Blankenburg , Ed .: HISTORY 4 YOU, Blankenburg 2015, page 92 f.
- ↑ Jörg Reimann, Pfalzen, Burgen und Schlösser in and around Blankenburg , Ed .: HISTORY 4 YOU, Blankenburg 2015, page 94
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 50.9 ″ N , 10 ° 59 ′ 10.4 ″ E