Hermannsberg (Hesse)
| Hermannsberg | ||
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| height | 705.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Rattlar , Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Rothaar Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '12 " N , 8 ° 39' 5" E | |
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| particularities | Location of the Hermannstein | |
The Hermannsberg near Rattlar in the municipality of Willingen in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg is 705.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge . The Hermannstein stands on the mountain .
geography
location
The Hermannsberg is located in the Upland , the northeast part of the Rothaargebirge, in the Diemelsee Nature Park . Its summit rises about 800 m south-south-east of Rattlar and 2.5 km (depending on the beeline ) north-north-west of Usseln , two districts of Willingen. To the east its landscape falls into the valley of the Diemel and to the west into that of the Wiedbach , a small Dommelbach tributary; District road 65 runs along the Wiedbach between Rattlar and Usseln .
The neighboring mountains and elevations of the Hermannsberg include Schetenkopf (approx. 650 m ) and Hegekopf (approx. 641 m ) in the north, Dommel ( 738 m ) in the north-northeast, Ellenberg ( 655.5 m ) in the northeast, Sähre ( 726 m ) in the south-east, Osterkopf ( 708.5 m ) in the south-south-east, Heimberg (approx. 690 m ) in the south, Schneeberg ( 726.3 m ) in the south-south-west, Lüerberg ( 713 m ) in the south-west and Höhekopf ( 621.7 m ) in the north-north-west .
Natural allocation
The Hermannsberg belongs to the natural area main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Upland (333.9) to the natural area Inneres Upland (333.90).
Hermannstein
On its summit is the Hermannstein , built at Pentecost 1912 (and preserved to this day) , a large square fire altar with a sun wheel and a (not preserved) wooden rune gate. This altar complex was built as a place of celebration for the right-wing conservative Association of German People's Educators and the Germanic-German religious community . In addition to the publicist and chairman of the People's Education Association, Wilhelm Schwaner , Karl Engelhard , Ludwig Fahrenkrog , Gustav Simons , Philipp Stauff and Carl Weißleder were also present at the inauguration .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
literature
- Wilhelm Schwaner / Walther Rathenau : A friendship in contradiction. The exchange of letters 1913-1922 (Eds. Gregor Hufenreuter / Christoph Knüppel), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86650-271-0 .