Hohburg mountains
The Hohburger Berge , also known as Hohburger Schweiz , is a mountain range up to 240 meters high in northern Saxony. It is located northeast of Wurzen near the eponymous place Hohburg in the municipality of Lossatal .
Natural space
The Hohburg Mountains are part of the natural area of the "North Saxon plateau and hill country", which is characterized in the area around the mountains by large, largely flat to slightly undulating Ice Age deposits. As part of the Leipzig lowland bay , average altitudes of 140 to 160 meters are reached here. The Hohburg Mountains protrude from this flat environment by up to 120 meters above ground level. The highest point is the Löbenberg ( 240 m above sea level ). Other heights are the Gaudlitzberg ( 219 m above sea level ), the Burzelberg ( 217 m above sea level ) and the Galgenberg ( 213 m above sea level ). South of Hohburg is the "Small Mountain" with a height of 206 m above sea level. NN . In the valley between the Hohburger mountains, the Lossabach flows through Müglenz, Hohburg, Klein- and Großzschepa to the Mulde near Thallwitz .
Geologically, the Hohburg Mountains belong to the so-called Saxon volcanic complex. The very solid pyroxene quartz porphyry found here was created by volcanic activity around 280 million years ago during the Unterperm period . The quartz porphyry has been quarried as stone since the 19th century. Some 60 million years ago, the quartz porphyry was weathered to form kaolin , which was also extracted in the 20th century.
During the Quaternary Ice Age , the rocks of the Hohburg Mountains were enclosed by glaciers and formed into elongated hills by the ice masses. Glacier scrapes still bear witness to this today . The grinding marks discovered by the Saxon geologist Carl Friedrich Naumann on the Kleiner Berg in 1844 as a result of the icing were of particular importance, as they provided a crucial clue for the theory of inland icing as the basis of later glaciology . The glacier and wind sections in the Hohburg Mountains are among the 77 most important national geotopes in Germany that were rated by the Hanover Academy of Geosciences in 2006.
A 301 hectare area in the Hohburg Mountains is protected as an FFH area "Mountains around Hohburg and Dornreichenbach".
History and present
The Hohburg Mountains were shaped by decades of intensive stone construction; there were steep rock faces and a few lakes in the remaining holes. The up to forty meter high rock faces have been used for climbing since 1925. Mountaineers in the area, such as Felix Simon, used the landscape as a training area for the Alps. Many climbs from that time fell victim to the ongoing quarry operation. From 1965 the “Black Wall” was used for alpine training ( technical climbing ). This was also blown away in 2015 due to the ongoing quarry operation. Since the mid-1990s, many new, sometimes very difficult routes have emerged in a further wave of development. There are currently over 200 climbing routes in various quarries.
Since 1998 there has been an annual mountain film festival in the Gaudlitzberg quarry cinema. According to the company, it is the oldest open-air mountain film festival in Germany, previously organized by Peter-Hugo Scholz († 2019).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Geotope "Glacier and wind sections in the Hohburg Mountains" (accessed November 29, 2013)
- ↑ National Geopark: windscreens and glacier scrapes on the Kleiner Berg (accessed August 6, 2020)
- ↑ FFH area "Mountains around Hohburg and Dornreichenbach" (accessed November 29, 2013)
- ↑ Bert Endruszeit: More than 1000 visitors to the mountain film festival with bouldering competitions. Leipziger Volkszeitung , online portal, September 1, 2019. Accessed September 30, 2019 .
- ↑ Gaudlitzer Bergfilm Festival boss Peter-Hugo Scholz is dead - accessed on September 25, 2019
literature
- Municipal Office Hohburg (publisher): Guide through Hohburg Switzerland - with a route map . A5 format, 16 pages + cover pages, two-tone folding card in A3 format. Printing and publishing: Buchdruckerei Gustav Jacob, 2nd edition, Wurzen 1928
- Carl Friedrich Naumann: About the Hohburger Porphyry Mountains in Saxony . Swiss beard, Stuttgart 1874 ( digitized )
