Dog Mountain
| Dog Mountain | ||
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 View to the hilltop of the dog mountain south of Bartolfelde |
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| height | 375.6 m | |
| location | District of Göttingen , South Lower Saxony | |
| Mountains | Silkeroder Hügelland , part of the Weser-Leine-Bergland | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 35 '12 " N , 10 ° 27' 25" E | |
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| rock | Red sandstone | |
The dog mountain is a 375.6 m high mountain in the district of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony in the immediate border area to the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld in the southern Harz region.
Geographical location
The dog mountain lies between the places Bartolfelde in the north, Osterhagen in the northeast, Weilrode in the south and Bockelnhagen in the southwest. The nearest town Bad Lauterberg is four kilometers to the north and Osterode about 20 kilometers to the northwest. The former inner-German border ran immediately south of the mountain . Today it is part of the Green Belt Germany .
In terms of nature, the Hundberg Mountain belongs to the Silkeroder Hügelland as a southeastern extension of the Rotenberg within the Eichsfeld Basin , in the southeastern part of the Weser-Leine Bergland . The Zechstein area of the south-western Harz foreland begins north of the mountain and the southern Harz Zechstein belt further east .
nature
The Hundberg Mountain is the highest mountain in the Silkeroder hill country and part of the Elbe-Weser watershed (the geological formation of the Eichsfeld threshold ). The foothills of the mountain are the Jakobsberg (363.9 m) in the east, the Tettenborner Köpfe (up to 340 m) in the southeast and the Brandkopf (approx. 335 m) in the southwest . The mountain is mainly used for agriculture, only immediately south in the border area to Thuringia begin larger forest areas, on Bartolfelder district the municipality hedge. The entire ridge is poorly developed for traffic, only west of the hilltop a state road connects Bartolfelde with Bockelnhagen. There is a sinkhole north of the mountain on the so-called Lower Dog Mountain .
From a hydrographic point of view, despite its relatively low altitude, the mountain is already part of the area of influence in the southwestern dam of the Harz with up to 1000 mm annual precipitation. The north slope lies in the catchment area of the Barbis brook (to the Oder ) and the Hellegrundbach (to the Ichte ), the south slope in the catchment area of the Weilroder Eller (with Bartolfelder Eller, Tettenborner Bach).
History
The Hundberg Mountain as part of a ridge running in an east-west direction was already the border area of different domains in the Middle Ages. The southern border of the county of Scharzfeld, which later belonged to the Duchy of Grubenhagen , ran here, while the Allerburg castle district was to the south . The remains of an old Landwehr can still be found here today , but it is not known when and by whom it was built. Furthermore, a historic street, the Hohe Straße , ran over this ridge . This connected the southwestern Harz foreland with the Nordhausen area.
After 1945 the border between the Soviet and British occupation zones ran here , from 1952 the border regime on the inner-German border was gradually introduced and the border security systems built. The course in the area is still recognizable today, parts of the column path are still there. A little west of the mountain on the Bockelnhagen-Bartolfelde road there is still a former command tower of the GDR border troops .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Map of the Eichsfeld district precipitation from the Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (2011)
- ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 31
