Hessian cliffs
The Hessian cliffs near Bad Karlshafen in the Kassel district , in the far north of Hesse , with foothills in North Rhine-Westphalia , are a group of several rock cliffs made of Weser sandstone on the edge of the Upper Weser Valley .
geography
location
The Hessian cliffs lie in Weserbergland above the left bank of the Weser , directly west of Diemel -Mündung with the local core city of Bad Karl port ( North Hesse ), with their North West foothills to the district of Beverunger local part Herstelle ( Westphalia extend). The wooded cliffs lead from the woodless high plateau of the cliff-close Kaiserstein ( 205 m above sea level ), which slopes gently to the southwest, and steeply to the northeast into the Weser Valley.
About 1.4 km northwest of the Weser are the Hanoverian cliffs with the Weser Skywalk and the triangle between the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia , Lower Saxony and Hesse .
Natural allocation
The Hessian cliffs lie on the border of the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37) with the main unit Solling, Bramwald and Reinhardswald (370) and the subunit Weser breakthrough valley (370.3) approximately in the northeast to the main unit group West Hessian mountainous region beginning above the cliffs ( 34) with the main unit West Hessian Senke (343) and the subunit Hofgeismarer Rötsenke (343.4) approximately in the southwest.
Landscape protection
The Hessian part of the Hessian Cliffs lies in the landscape protection area landscape components and landscape parts in the district Hofgeismar ( CDDA -Nr. 378519; 1938; 28.42 km² ), to which the LSG Auenverbund Diemel (CDDA-Nr. 378399; 1994; 13, 29 km²). The Westphalian LSG Altkreis Höxter (CDDA no. 555549644; 406.27 km²) is located a little to the west of the cliffs, beyond Kaiserstein, which still belongs to Hesse .
description
The Hessian cliffs are made of Weser sandstone , a red sandstone . They have been heavily forested since the mid-1960s and can therefore no longer be seen as clearly as they were drawn by Robert Batty in 1825 on his romantic journey through northern Germany.
Landmarks and monuments
The sights and monuments at and near the Hessian cliffs include:
- Juliushöhe (former excursion destination and restaurant)
- Schiller Monument
- Huguenot tower on one of the cliffs (inaugurated in 1913)
- Ludwig stone
- Lookout point with pavilion
- Bad Karlshafen , Huguenot town with a historic town center
- Krukenburg near Helmarshausen
Historical views
Well-known historical views of the Hessian cliffs are:
- Steel engraving after Robert Batty (1825); engraved by Edward Goodall (1827)
- Spring lithograph of Karlshafen by L. Niebuhr around 1830
- View of the city of Karlshafen from Fink / Martens around 1850
- Depiction of expensive purchases around 1860
Traffic and walking
The Hessian cliffs , through which several narrow hiking trails lead, coming from Bad Karlshafen, crossing the Diemel bridge on federal road 80 ( Weserstrasse ), from federal road 83 ( Bremer Strasse ). Near the junction 102.5 m above sea level. NN , at which both roads meet, an ascent begins; another is located on Bremer Straße after the former brewery below the Huguenot tower. There is also a connection via the hiking trail from Herstelle , which leads past two quarries in North Rhine-Westphalia, or from Helmarshausen .
Individual evidence
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↑ Hiking and leisure in the Solling-Vogler Nature Park , Topographische Karte (1: 50,000; 1975),
publisher : Lower Saxony State Administration Office - State survey - ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
literature
- Robert Bohn : Karlshafen 1699-1999. Economic and social history of the Hessian planned city from the baroque period. Verlag des Antiquariats Bernhard Schäfer, Bad Karlshafen 2000 (historical views p. 77-79 and further p. 38,54,77,78,83,96,97,109,129,215).
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 31.5 " N , 9 ° 26 ′ 46" E