Heidenberg (Roth)
| Heidenberg | ||
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 Heidenberg from the west |
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| height | 463 m above sea level NN | |
| location | District of Roth , Bavaria | |
| Mountains | Franconian Alb | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 17 '28 " N , 10 ° 59' 16" E | |
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| Type | Zeugenberg | |
| rock | Sandstone | |
| Age of the rock | 215 - 218 million years | |
| particularities | VHF, mobile radio and radio transmission mast from Deutsche Telekom | |
The Heidenberg is a 12 km² wooded ridge in the Central Franconian district of Roth in Bavaria .
location
It is located about five kilometers south of Schwabach in the municipality-free area of the same name Heidenberg . It is located in an east-west direction between the communities of Kammerstein and Büchenbach . To the north it borders on the urban area of Schwabach, where it is bounded and drained by the Mainbach . Countless temporary or year-round pouring springs surround the Heidenberg at an altitude of 365 - 405 m above sea level. NN . The southern flank drains towards the Aurach . Both waters always flow eastwards and flow into the Rednitz as a receiving water .
The mountain range protrudes up to 100 meters above the surrounding valleys; in four places the peaks exceed heights of over 450 m above sea level. NN . In clear weather, the view extends to the Nuremberg Castle to the north, to the east to the Dillberg and south to the Wülzburg near Weißenburg .
geology
Profile and geological stratification of the Heidenberg (left is south, right is north)
The Heidenberg is part of the Middle Franconian step country. It consists of the layers of the upper and middle Burg sandstone , a formation of the mean keuper from the geological ages of the triad . The carbonate-bearing clays of the Feuerletten form the end of the hanging walls . There the mountain carries an autochthonous occurrence of the silver fir , Abies alba.
Historical
The area was already settled in the Neolithic . Several archaeological monuments are identified. In the immediate vicinity there are settlement and burial sites from the Urnfield Period and the Hallstatt Period . At the turn of the times, the area was the southernmost branch of the Narisker settlement area .
The settlement was abandoned in Roman times; the Limes was only a day's march away and times were getting too restless. There are no findings from the time of the Great Migration and only reappeared sporadically in the Carolingian period.
The area experienced an economic revival in the 9th century. For example, the Eichelberg fortifications and the Osterwiese Burgstall are located on the Heidenberg . These are originally refuges from the Hungarians who wandered around until 955 . Other settlement and burial sites from prehistoric times are also qualified as monuments.
The forest area was crossed by strategically important imperial roads in the Middle Ages (9th to the end of the 16th century), the Burgundy and Italerstrasse . Kings, nobles, warriors, merchants' trade trains, but also pilgrims and beggars were on these roads. The deeply washed ravines, on which the carts and horse-drawn carts once traveled on their way to the imperial city of Nuremberg , are still preserved today. The cross stone still reminds of the fatal accident of a carter there . (Legend station 14)
The legendary Herzog-Ernst-Stein stands in the municipality of Büchenbach . It is an inconspicuous sandstone with a height of 60 cm and a base area of 40 × 40 cm on a square foundation stone. It is the remainder of an atonement cross that was erected around 1400 on the Haag - Ungerthal road . The stone was first mentioned in a document in 1417 on the occasion of a forest sale. According to a legend , the stone reminds of the place where Duke Ernst died during the time of the Hungarian invasions (from 899 to 955). He was fatally hit by a Hungarian with a crossbow through his helmet visor. (Legend station 18)
At the time of Charlemagne , the forest belonged to the imperial forest of the Schwabach royal court. Later, the area was developed into a scene for noble hunts and a deer enclosure - a plague for the farmers of the time. After the Prussians took control of Ansbach (1791), all deer were killed.
The Bavarian original cadastre from 1808 shows an old quarry 500 meters west of Götzenreuth , on the southern foothills of the Heidenberg, the Steinbuck . The area is now designated as geotope number 576A005. Another geotope exists under no. 576A002 Bergholz Hierlach 500 meters northeast of Kühedorf , also a former quarry that was only operated in the 19th century.
Legend trail
The legend hiking trail with text and picture boards with more than 22 stations is located on Heidenberg . The starting points of the 14-kilometer route are in both Kühedorf and Kammerstein.
According to a legend, Attila , the king of the Huns, is said to be buried on Heidenberg . (Legend station 19)
The legend festival is celebrated annually on the first weekend in May in a clearing in the forest, the Ofenplatte .
Others
There are two transmission towers on the mountain , the mast of the Heidenberg transmitter is 200 meters high.
The entire area of the Heidenberg is a landscape protection area .
The Schwabach-Heidenberg airfield is located south of the Heidenberg .
At the beginning of 2010, a youth football community was founded under the name JFG Heidenberg; this consists of the TV 21 Büchenbach, the SV Pfaffenhofen and the TSV Rothaurach.
Web links
- The legend hiking trail on the Kammerstein municipality website
- Photos from the former quarry on Heidenberg
Individual evidence
- ^ Heidenberg , location on Bavaria Atlas
- ↑ site operation for the Nuremberg Reichswald with adjacent areas; Herbert Kolb, Oberforstdirektion Ansbach 1995
- ↑ List of monuments BayLfD, pages 5 and 6
- ^ Burgstall Osterwiese at the Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation
- ^ Geotope map of the district of Roth and the city of Schwabach
- ↑ Heidenberg hiking map
- ↑ Landscape protection area