Hollow stone
| Hollow stone | ||
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 Autumn mood on the Hohlestein (front right) |
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| height | 476.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Weimar ; District of Kassel , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Dörnberg and Schreckenberge , Habichtswälder Bergland | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 21 '5 " N , 9 ° 21' 48" E | |
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| rock | basalt | |
| particularities | prehistoric, artificially embedded basalt stone pit in the summit area of the Hohlesteins | |
The hollow stone is 476.6 m above sea level. NHN high mountain top in the district of Ahnatal in the Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).
As a natural monument basalt cone with basalt rubble "Der Hohlestein" , parts of the mountain top (peaks and slopes) are under nature protection.
geography
location
The Hohlestein rises in the northeast part of the Habichtswald Nature Park about 9 km (as the crow flies ) west-northwest of Kassel between Ahnatal- Weimar and Habichtswald - Dörnberg . While the Hohe Dörnberg ( 578.7 m ) rises around 1 km to the west , the hollow stone slopes down to the east into the valley of the ancestors .
There is a geodetic survey point on the small summit plateau of the beech- wooded hollow stone and a refuge at the southern foot of the mountain . In front of the Hohlestein is the Katzenstein (approx. 430 m ), a knoll that is only wooded like an island at the summit, 600 m to the south .
Natural allocation
→ for details, see the section on natural allocation and structure of the article "Dörnberg und Schreckenberge"
The hollow stone belongs to the natural spatial main unit group West Hessian mountain and sink country (No. 34) and in the main unit Habichtswälder Bergland (342) to the natural area Dörnberg and Schreckenberge (342.3) and its subunit Dörnbergpass (342.30).
Streams and watershed
Like the Hohe Dörnberg, the Hohlestein lies on the watershed between Fulda and Diemel , part of the Diemel-Eder / Fulda / Weser watershed . The Dorfbach (also called Servitutgraben ; 4.8 km long), which rises on the eastern slope of the Hohen Dörnberg or a little northwest of the Hohlestein, drains to the Ahne and then into the Fulda, while the stream Kressenborn (2.7 km) , which flows from the Hohen Habichtswald, finally west of the Lubach coming from the same area of origin ( called Laubach in the upper reaches ; 4.9 km), towards the Warm and then the Diemel (water lengths according to). Finally, Fulda and Diemel flow into the Weser .
geology
The rock formation of the hollow stone consists of basalt , a limburgite of the basatoid trachydolerite , and has almost vertical walls. The summit is an almost flat, small plateau . On the north side the basalt walls are 13 m and on the south side 25 m steeply sloping. The horizontally layered columnar basalt of the hollow stone geologically proves that the rock is the remainder of a basalt duct of the Hohen Dörnberg running in a north-west-south-east direction .
history
An archaeological peculiarity of the hollow stone is a 2 m wide, 2 m long and 1 m deep, artificially embedded, square basalt stone pit on the summit plateau. Depending on the season or the amount of precipitation, more or less rainwater collects in this depression.
This complex was perhaps a burial , cult and sacrificial site of the Celts from the 3rd century BC. BC or the La Tène period . Presumably, the artificial hollow initially served as a place of cremation. This assumption is supported by the discovery of a bronze ring in 1905, which is interpreted as a grave enclosure. Later, the well was a village-like, with a as a substructure for a military base ring wall walled settlement of Oppida civilization of the late 2nd to 1st century v. Used. In 1905 prehistoric sherds from the 3rd millennium BC were found on the Hohlestein. Found in 1951 on the eastern slope of the basalt dome near the basalt rock a large number of vessel shards from the La Tène culture and fragments of clay from a Celtic base from the late 2nd to 1st century BC. Chr. A Chattic use of the cult site cannot be proven.
Today the steep basalt stone walls of the hollow stone are used as a climbing area. The basalt dome can only be climbed in the north without aids.
Directions
From Kassel you can get to the Hohlestein via the B 251 (Wolfhager Strasse), which leads west from the Harleshausen district to the Habichtswald community; the road leads in a curve at a gravel works on the Dörnberg Pass to a maximum height of 393.8 m . You leave the car at the Ahnetal restaurant and follow the hiking trail signs F or M ( Märchenlandweg ) uphill through the forest , or you can park it just before the pass at the Triffelsbühl car park and walk on dirt roads to the mountain. There is a refuge at the edge of the forest below the summit or on the hiking trails mentioned .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ 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 Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )
literature
- Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971, p. 56
