Hercules Mountain

Herkulesberg (center) between Colonius and KölnTurm at sunrise

The Herkulesberg ("Mont Klamott") is the largest of a total of eleven mountains of rubble in the Cologne city ​​area. The hill in the Neustadt-Nord district has an absolute height of 72.2 m above sea level. It rises approx. 25 m above its direct neighborhood. The Herkulesberg was laid out on an area of ​​around 130,000 square meters, on which most of the inner city rubble was heaped up.

location

The Herkulesberg is located east of the Herkulesstraße between Innere Kanalstraße and Mediapark .

Others

The “Mont Klamott” is quoted in the Bläck-Fööss hit Mer losse d'r Dom en Kölle (November 1973): “D'r Mont Klamott dä heiss op eimol Zuckerhot . Do köm dat panorama hard en Brass ”(The Herkulesberg is suddenly called Sugar Loaf, so the Cologne city panorama would get into trouble).

literature

• Ernst Brunotte et al .: The natural landscape and its transformation by man: Explanations for the university excursion map Cologne and the surrounding area . In: Cologne Geographical Works . Issue 63, 1994, ISSN  0454-1294 . Here: Location 11, pp. 43–44.

Web links

Commons : Herkulesberg  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Digital topographic map (DTK) via TIM-online , accessed on November 24, 2018
2. ↑ Lyrics of the Bläck-Fööss

Coordinates: 50 ° 57 '  N , 6 ° 56'  E