Hohe Warte (Rothaar Mountains)
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 Hohe Warte from the direction of Alertshausen (west) |
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| height | 644.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | District Dodenaus ( Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ), close Alertshausen ( Siegen-Wittgenstein , North Rhine-Westphalia ); Germany | |
| Mountains | Rothaar Mountains | |
| Dominance | 1.92 km → Oberecke (649.3 m) | |
| Notch height | 60 m ↓ immediately north | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 3 '16 " N , 8 ° 31' 49" E | |
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| particularities | formerly the site of a mounting system | |
The Hohe Warte is a 644.8 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Rothaar Mountains . It is located immediately to the east of Alertshausen ( Siegen-Wittgenstein district , North Rhine-Westphalia ), but on the Dodenau district in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in Hesse .
geography
location
The Hohe Warte rises as part of the eastern roofing of the Rothaargebirge in the Elbrighaus forest belonging to the Ederbergland hinterland . It largely belongs to the urban area of the Hessian Battenberg , whose core city is about 9 km southeast; the Battenberg district of Dodenau is 5.5 km south-east. The western flank extends into Hesse and also in the Wittgensteiner Land with Alertshausen, which belongs to Westphalia . In Hesse, the Elbrighäuser Bach rises in the eastern transition area to the Heidenköpf (approx. 610 m ) and the Riedgraben at the neighboring Hintersten Kopf ( 604.5 m ) to the southwest , and in North Rhine-Westphalia the mountain is passed in the west by the Elsoff , which flows through Alertshausen ; they are all Eder tributaries.
Natural allocation
The Hohe Warte lies in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) on the border of the main unit Ostsauerland Gebirgsrand (332) with the subunit Hinterland Ederbergland (332.1) and the natural area Elbrighäuser Wald (332.11) approximately in the southeast to the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) with the subunit Winterberger Hochland (333.5) and the natural area Wilde Struth (333.50) approximately in the north-west.
Mountain height
The Hohe Warte is 644.8 m high. However, its height is sometimes only given as around 642 m , which refers to a location almost 100 m south-southeast of its summit at a height of 641.5 m .
Protected areas
To the northeast, the landscape of the Hohe Warte falls into the Elbrighäuser Bach nature reserve ( CDDA no. 162917; designated 1995; 1.44 km² in size) and to the south into the NSG Riedgraben (CDDA no. 165175; 1995; 76 ha ); both are part of the Fauna-Flora-Habitat- Area Obere Eder (FFH no. 4917-350; 23.35 km²). The Hessian parts of the mountain, and thus by far the largest part, are located in the Hessisches Rothaargebirge bird sanctuary (VSG No. 4917-401; 272.73 km²).
history
Fortification
After the Wittgenstein Counts became independent in 1238, a castle-like fortification was built on the Hohe Warte in 1250 . This represented a clear boundary marking between Battenberg and Wittgenstein.
Origin of name
As early as the early Middle Ages, waiting areas were set up as observation points. The word Wart is derived from the Old High German warta , which means something like to warn .
Traffic and walking
To the west past the Hohen Warte , on the Westphalian side, the state road 877 ( Diedenshausen –Alertshausen– Elsoff ) leads in a north-north-east-south-south-west direction . The wooded mountain can be reached, for example, starting on this road, on forest and farm roads that lead past the outlying farms of Karlsburg and Burghelle , which are on a plateau above the village of Alertshausen . The Fallgrube farm is located about 450 m southeast of the summit .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d 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
- Günther Wrede , Territorial history of the County of Wittgenstein , 1927
- Wittgensteiner Heimatverein eV, sheets of the Wittgensteiner Heimatverein
- Lars Womelsdorf, contributions to the history of Alertshausen