Hirtenberg (Harz)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hirtenberg
The Hirtenberg on the right in the panorama of Lonau

The Hirtenberg on the right in the panorama of Lonau

height 582  m above sea level NHN
location near Lonau ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Resin ( middle resin )
Coordinates 51 ° 41 '12 "  N , 10 ° 22' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 41 '12 "  N , 10 ° 22' 24"  E
Hirtenberg (Harz) (Lower Saxony)
Hirtenberg (Harz)

The Hirtenberg is about 582  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Harz . It is located near Lonau in the non-parish Harz region of the Göttingen district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

The Hirtenberg rises in the Middle Harz and in the Harz National Park . Its summit is about 1 km east-southeast of the center of Lonau, a district of Herzberg am Harz . It forms the south-westerly continuation of the Langfast ( 606.1  m ), and the landscape leads to the south-west with a low notch height to the Großer Teichtalskopf ( 492  m ). The mountain separates the valleys of the Great Lonau in the north and west and the Sieber roughly in the southeast.

Natural allocation

The Hirtenberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Upper Harz (380) and in the subunit Southern Upper Harz (380.8) to the natural area Sieberbergland (380.82).

Protected areas and forest cover

Parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Harz National Park (Lower Saxony) (FFH no. 4129-302; 157.7  km² ) and the Harz National Park bird sanctuary (VSG no. 4229-402; 155.59 ) are located on the Hirtenberg km²). At the foot of the mountains located in Siebertal the nature reserve rich Siebertal ( CDDA -No 64701;. 1992 expelled; 6,947 square kilometers) and the FFH area Sieber, Or, Rhume (FFH No. 4228-331;. 24.5051 square kilometers). Most of the mountain is forested with beeches, but also partly with spruce.

literature

  • Klaus Gehmlich: Field names in the district of Osterode am Harz , Volume 1, Verlag Papierflieger, Clausthal-Zellerfeld 2008, ISBN 978-3-89720-971-8 , p. 115

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
  2. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )