High Stone (Coswig)
| High stone | ||
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 View of the Hohe Stein from the parish grounds |
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| height | 200 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Germany , Saxony | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 8 '6 " N , 13 ° 36' 26" E | |
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| Type | rock | |
| rock | Monzonite, reading stones from eye gneiss | |
The Hohe Stein is a 200 meter high mountain that belongs to the large district town of Coswig . It is protected as a rock biotope.
Location and surroundings
The Hohe Stein, directly adjacent to the Kleiner Stein , is about four kilometers from the center of the city of Coswig in the Saxon district of Meißen . Not far from the mountain is the district boundary to the Radebeul district of Zitzschewig .
geology
The area borders on the so-called gneiss reef zone . This is a formation formed by the metamorphic rock gneiss , which begins on the Großer Laubenberg near Weinböhla and accompanies the Lusatian thrust , a geological fault zone between the Elbe Valley and the Giant Mountains. Everywhere you come across reading stones from eye gneiss in this area . At the edge of the forest after Weidenbornstraße to be on slopes this rock minded . The high stone itself is made of monzonite .
nature
The Coswig Pfarrlehnwald extends across from the Hohe Stein . In between flows the Pfarrbach, which seeps away near the Zimmerhof on the Heidesand terrace. Near a way star, the stream flows through a section of the valley in which plenty of lawn iron ore is deposited and in which one of the typical alder bogs , which is rare in the Friedewald , has developed. There is a syenite quarry between the moor and the fork path . The sweet angel fern ( Polypodium vulgare ) grows on the rock walls . Numerous native and exotic pond roses have been planted in the lake that fills the quarry , including waterweed ( Elodea canadensis ) and water crowfoot ( Ranunculus aquatilis ) . Crippling beeches stand between the rocks . The pines are rich in mistletoe .
View and paths to the summit
The distant view from the almost 200 meter high elevation includes, among other things, the Elbleiten near Scharfenberg, the Spaar Mountains and the Meißner Dom . The summit can be reached via a forest path that branches off from the fork path, which is very steep at first and then meanders over a mountain ridge.
literature
- Lössnitz and Moritzburg pond landscape (= values of our homeland . Volume 22). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1973.
