Long grass
| Long grass | ||
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 Mountain restaurant and observation tower on the high grass |
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| height | 614.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | circular free Kassel and Kassel district , Northern Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | High Habichtswald in the Habichtswälder Bergland | |
| Dominance | 28.6 km → Hirschberg ( Kaufunger Wald ) | |
| Notch height | 297 m ↓ valley watershed north of Ippinghausen | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '22 " N , 9 ° 21' 17" E | |
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| Development | Road to the hilltop | |
| particularities | highest mountain of:
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The high grass is 614.8 m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain of the Habichtswälder mountains and the highest of its part High Habichtswald . It rises in the area of the independent city of Kassel and in the district of Kassel in northern Hesse .
On the mountain there is an observation tower with a transmitter and a mountain restaurant , the Kassel climbing forest and a winter sports area on the south-eastern mountainside .
geography
location
The Hohe Gras is located in the Habichtswald Nature Park in the Kassel district of Bad Wilhelmshöhe and in the area of the municipality of Schauenburg, which is directly south of its summit in the Kassel district . As well hidden in the forest and only gently rising knoll find it in the heights of the Habichtswald hardly.
Neighboring mountains or mountain foothills are: Large cairn in the north, Ziegenkopf in the northeast, Kleiner Herbsthaus in the southeast, Kaulenberg in the south-southwest, Ahrensberg with nearby hill Uhlenstein in the west and Essigberg in the northwest.
The Rehgraben rises to the south-south-west of the summit of the Hohen Gras and flows eastwards past the Kaulenberg to the north of Schauenburg - Hoof to flow into the Bauna -Quellbach Kleine Bauna .
Natural allocation
The high grass belongs to the natural spatial main unit group West Hessian mountain and sink country (No. 34), in the main unit Habichtswälder Bergland (342) and in the subunit High Habichtswald and Langenberg (342.0) to the natural area Hoher Habichtswald (342.00). To the south the landscape drops into the natural area Hoofer Pforte (342.01).
Lookout tower with transmitter and mountain restaurant
Description and history
In the summit area of the mountain there is the Hohes Gras observation tower with a transmitter and the Hohes Gras mountain restaurant adjacent to the tower . Both stone buildings are in the Kassel city area; The border with the municipality of Schauenburg runs along the forest path that goes directly south in a west-east direction.
The tower is 30.7 m high measured to the roof; The antennas of the transmitter are located above this. The area at the base of the tower is 614.7 m high. Its viewing platform is at a height of 27.7 m (24.7 m original tower height plus 3 m elevation from 1969), which is 642.4 m above sea level. Corresponds to NHN .
The foundation stone of the tower was laid on May 24, 1888, and the tower was inaugurated on May 18, 1890. The barracks required for the construction work were initially retained and allowed regular serving to the ever-increasing number of visitors. Therefore an application was made for a mountain restaurant with a beer garden , the completion of which followed on November 15, 1904.
In 1925, weather-related damage led to the tower being closed to visitors immediately and the first “complete renovation”. The Hessisch-Waldeckische Gebirgs- und Heimatverein acquired the property in 1929. During the Second World War (1939-1945) the tower was damaged by aerial bombs in December 1944 and confiscated in April 1945 by the American military administration.
In 1947, the Kassel post office took over a transmitter installed above the tower's observation deck - later also used by the Hessischer Rundfunk (hr). The building has been accessible to hikers again since 1953. For the transmitter and to increase the viewing height, PreussenElektra (PREAG) provided the tower with a modern structure that was not architecturally adapted to the tower substructure from 1969 to 1970 .
The second “complete renovation” of the tower took place from 1985 to 1987.
Possibility of viewing
For decades, the viewing platform has mostly been dominated by the crowns of numerous trees, which severely restrict and interrupt the all-round view. However, when the visibility is good, you can see the Rothaargebirge in the west, parts of the Eggegebirge in the northwest, the Köterberg and Solling in the north, Reinhardswald and Harz in the northeast, Kaufunger Wald and Hoher Meißner in the east as well as partly the Rhön in the southeast between branches . In the immediate vicinity you can see the peaks of Wattenberg , Isthaberg and Großem Bärenberg (with Bärenberg tower ) as well as the nearby Habichtswald telecommunications tower on the Essigberg .
Uhlenstein
Between the Hohen Gras and the Ahrensberg lies the Uhlenstein ( ⊙ ) in the district of Kassel in the municipality of Habichtswald , a gentle hill of at least 607.5 m , the wooded landscape of which slopes down towards the south into the municipality of Schauenburg. A water tank stands on the Uhlenstein , to the north of which the former training site Ehlen extends .
Hercules Railway
A coming from New Holland upcoming stretch of from 1902 to 1966 operated Herkulesbahn led from 1918 past the goat head with the colliery Red cleats for High Grass . It carried goods there and, from 1925 until the section was finally closed in 1940, also people. Other routes also ran to Brasselsberg and Hercules, which gave it its name .
Hiking and sports
Numerous forest paths invite you to go for walks and hikes on the Hohe Gras ; Among other things, the Herkulesweg and the extra tour H3 of the Habichtswaldsteig runs over the Hohe Gras and past the Uhlenstein . In winter, the east-south-east slope of the mountain attracts visitors as a winter sports area : on the south-east slope there is a ski lift (t-bar lift) with a 510 m long ski slope . A toboggan run of roughly the same length runs parallel to the slope . Both have a difference in altitude of around 80 m. Since May 16, 2009 there has been the Kassel climbing forest near the summit .
Directions
The Hohe Gras can be reached by car via the wide Kassel - Ehlen road (from east to west called Druseltalstraße , Im Druseltal and Ehlener Straße ; Landesstraße 3296). Coming from the east or west, at around the highest point of the road - following the signs to Hohen Gras - turn south onto a former Panzerstraße and then onto a road to the parking lot on the hilltop. You can also take the KVG buses , which stop about 350 m north-west of the hilltop.
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ a b c Topographic map Stadtatlas Kassel ( M. = 1: 10,000), Ed .: Stadt Kassel, Vermessung und Geoinformation, 2009
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ dominance and prominence according to TK 25; Scharte along the Eder - Diemel watershed.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k Sign on the entrance gate of the observation tower
- ↑ NN: 100 years of the Hohes-Gras-Turm in the Habichtswald . In: Hessisch-Waldeckische Gebirgs- und Wanderverein eV (Hrsg.): Hessischer Gebirgsbote . 91st JG. Issue 3. Melsungen 1990, p. 101 .
- ↑ Tall trees instead of tall grass , panoramic view from the observation tower, accessed on July 3, 2012, on panorama-photo.net
- ↑ Uhlenstein: the 607.5 m height refers to the uppermost (dashed) contour line in the Kassel City Atlas (2009)