Homburg Forest

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View from Rötteln Castle to the Homburg Forest (center) and the motorway that crosses it

The Homburg Forest is 441.8  m above sea level. NN high wooded ridges northeast of the city of Lörrach .

Geography and location

The ridge in the urban district extends from the B 316 to the Brombach district and rises around 150 meters above the Wiesental . To the west, the Homburg Forest is cut through by the A 98 and drops steeply to the Wiesental. The east side is much flatter and is separated from the adjacent heights by a brook valley. The Homburg Forest extends around 1.4 kilometers in north-south direction and has over 200 hills, with three main domes being formed. The ridge, which is around 800 meters wide in an east-west direction, geologically consists mainly of shell limestone . The highest elevation is 441.8  m above sea level. NN height on the southern part of the ridge. The ridge forms the southwestern edge of the Dinkelberg .

In the north of the Homburg Forest is the district Hellberg, in the east it is bounded by the districts Buchhalde, Grundäcker, Wannen and Roßwang. To the west borders the core town of Lörrach with the Homburg settlement named after the Homburg Forest .

history

The name was mentioned early in 1350 as a fiefdom on Honberg , which means something like "on the high mountain". After further mentions, mostly with the ending -berg, today's name Homburg appeared for the first time in 1898. This change of toponym can often be seen.

Excavations by the State Monuments Office in 1972 on the occasion of the construction of the motorway confirmed earlier assumptions that the mounds were burial mound necropolis .

literature

  • Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz (ed.): Guide to prehistoric and early historical monuments. Volume 47: Lörrach and the foreland on the right bank of the Rhine from Basel , Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 1981, ISBN 3-8053-0530-3 , pp. 169–173.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zettler, Zotz (ed.): The castles in medieval Breisgau. Southern part half volume AK , Thorbecke Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-7995-7366-5 , pp. 117f.
  2. ↑ Guide to prehistoric and protohistoric monuments. Volume 47: Lörrach and the foreland on the right bank of the Rhine from Basel , p. 171

Coordinates: 47 ° 37 '  N , 7 ° 41'  E