Huthberg

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Huthberg
height 604.8  m above sea level NHN
location at Romkerhalle ; District of Goslar , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Harz ( Upper Harz )
Coordinates 51 ° 52 '6 "  N , 10 ° 29' 2"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '6 "  N , 10 ° 29' 2"  E
Huthberg (Lower Saxony)
Huthberg
particularities Rock cliffs and formations :
- Fig tree cliff / pulpit
- Great Elector
- Witches' Kitchen
- Kästeklippen
- Mausefalle
- Mönch
- Staircase Mountain
restaurant: Kästehaus
Source : Jägerborn
On the Kästeklippen near the summit of the Huthberg
Kästehaus mountain restaurant on the summit region of the Huthberg

The Huthberg near Romkerhalle in the non-parish Harz region of the Lower Saxony district of Goslar is 604.8  m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the Upper Harz in the Harz low mountain range . There are numerous rocky cliffs and formations on the mountain, and the Kästehaus mountain restaurant is on the summit region .

geography

location

The Huthberg rises in the Harz Nature Park in the north of the Upper Harz. Its summit lies downwards along the Oker between the villages of Schulenberg in the southwest and Oker in the north about 1.3 km (as the crow flies ) northeast of the Romkerhalle hotel and restaurant, which is located on the river at an altitude of about 355  m .

To the west past the Huthberg, the Aller tributary Oker flows in a south-north direction in a deeply cut valley . The Eichenberg ( 670  m ) rises across the river in the west-southwest . To the south, the landscape of the Huthberg slopes down to the Kleine Romke , from which part of the water at the southwestern foothills of the Kleiner Romke ( 441.7  m ) is led through a moat to the artificially created Romkerhaller waterfall . To the north it falls into the Tränketal, through which the small (stream from) Jägerborn flows westwards to the Oker. To the east, the landscape leads over to the 622.6  m high elevation on the Röhrtanz parcel. In the southwest, 2.6 km (as the crow flies) from the Huthberg summit, the Okertalsperre is a dam of the Okerstausees.

Mountain height

The southwest tip of Huth mountain is 604.8  m and its northeastern tip of contour lines estimated to be 595  m high; both peaks are about 250 m apart (as the crow flies).

Natural allocation

The Huth mountain is in the natural environment feature unit group resin (no. 38) in the main unit upper resin (380) and in the sub unit Old Auerbergland (380.3) on the boundary of the downstream considered located at the Oker natural areas Okerbergland (380.30) in the southwest and Okerhochfläche ( 380.31) in the northeast.

Protected areas

On the Huthberg there are parts of the Harz landscape protection area (district of Goslar) ( CDDA no. 321402; designated 2001; 390.18  km² in size). Until well up on its northwest slope with the stairs stone rich parts of the bird reserve and cliffs in Okertal (VSG No. 4128-431;. 88  ha ).

Rock cliffs and formations

There are many rocky cliffs on the Huthberg: the Kästeklippen , the highest point of which is the mountain peak, and - viewed approximately clockwise - the witch's kitchen on the southern high elevations , on the south-south-west slope the mousetrap with the fig tree cliff (also known as the fig tree pulpit) to the west the western high elevations of the Mönch , on the western flank the Great Elector and on the north-western slope the staircase stone . A little north of the Huthberg are the student cliffs, easily visible from the mountain beyond the Tränketal .

Cattle house

In 1928 the Kästehaus was built on the summit region near the Kästeklippen , which belonged to the Harz region until 1929 , then incorporated into Bündheim and finally assigned as an exclave to the Oker district. The mountain restaurant has belonged to the city of Bad Harzburg since 1973 . The Kästehaus is included as No. 118 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.

Traffic and walking

West past the Huthberg in the Oker valley in its section from the Okerstausee (near Schulenberg ) in the south, the federal road 498 runs downstream along the Oker and directly past the Romkerhalle hotel and restaurant in the valley to Oker in the north . For example, starting on this street at Romkerhalle, the mountain can be hiked on forest paths and paths.

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Albert Saft: Oker. A chronicle from 1882 to 2007 . Events in the city and in the Goslar district of Oker. Goslarsche Zeitung , Goslar 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809704-6-4 , p. 249 f .
  3. Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 118 / Kästehaus , on harzer-wandernadel.de