Heiligenberg (Alfhausen)

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Heiligenberg
View of the top of the Heiligenberg

View of the top of the Heiligenberg

height 104.3  m above sea level NN
location Lower Saxony , Germany
Mountains Ankumer height
Coordinates 52 ° 30 '9 "  N , 7 ° 54' 25"  E Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '9 "  N , 7 ° 54' 25"  E
Heiligenberg (Alfhausen) (Lower Saxony)
Heiligenberg (Alfhausen)
Type Terminal moraine
particularities Highest point in the community of Alfhausen

The Heiligenberg is a 104.3 meter high mountain in Alfhausen ( Osnabrück district ) and at the same time the highest point in the community. It is part of the Ankumer Heights , a glacier lobe from the Saale Ice Age . Naturally, it belongs to the unit 585.01 Ankumer Flottsand -gebiet .

There is a small educational tree path with 20 different tree species on the Heiligenberg . For a short time, the Heiligenberg or the adjoining Goldhügel was discussed as an alternative location for a new observation tower due to its exposed location, but this was implemented as a viewing platform at its originally planned location in Ankum-Tütingen.

Once upon a time, a procession of believers from the parishes of Alfhausen , Merzen and Ueffeln came here to worship together on St. John's Day . After the Reformation was introduced in Ueffeln, they stayed away from the procession. From this a regional proverb developed: He blift ut as Ueffeln! (Low German for: He stays out like Ueffeln!). In 1864, the writer Johann Georg Kohl assumed that the procession originated from a pagan custom that was reinterpreted. The procession was finally stopped in the second half of the 19th century.

Web links

Commons : Heiligenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.alfseeregion.de/app/download/20590081/DE_Alfseeregion_Text_160928.pdf
  2. ↑ A sequoia tree on the Heiligenberg. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , July 19, 2007, accessed on May 22, 2020 .
  3. ^ Martin Schmitz: Dispute in the Ankum municipal council over the viewing platform. In: noz.de. Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , August 2, 2014, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Matthias Rickling: Churches, wars, golden treasures: More fabulous things from the Osnabrück region . 1st edition. Sutton Verlag, Erfurt 2014, ISBN 978-3-95400-359-4 , p. 102 .
  5. ↑ Otto zu Hoene, Robert Meyer: 1000 years Alfhausen 977–1977 . 2nd Edition. Self-published by the community of Alfhausen, Alfhausen 2002, p. 28 .