Ilbes mountain
| Ilbes mountain
Magnetberg
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 Magnetic stones on the so-called Magnetberg |
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| height | 419.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Nieder-Beerbach ; Darmstadt-Dieburg district , South Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 47 '18 " N , 8 ° 40' 3" E | |
| Topo map | LAGIS Hessen | |
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| particularities | magnetic | |
The Ilbes mountain , also called Magnetberg , is 419.7 m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the western Odenwald . It is located near Nieder-Beerbach in the Darmstadt-Dieburg district in southern Hesse and is part of the Frankenstein complex in the Vorderen Odenwald .
geography
location
The Ilbes-Berg rises in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park . Its summit is about 9 km (as the crow flies ) south of Darmstadt - between Nieder-Beerbach in the east and Malchen in the west. To the north is the Schlossberg (approx. 370 m ) with Frankenstein Castle .
Natural allocation
The Ilbes-Berg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (No. 14), in the main unit Vorderer Odenwald ( crystalline Odenwald ; 145) and in the subunit Melibokus-Odenwald (145.0) to the natural area Frankenstein massif (145.01).
Traffic and walking
West past the Ilbes Hill leading mountain road . The 1.1 km long Magnetberg-Weg, which starts at the parking lot at Burg Frankenstein, leads around it. The mountain is located on the Herrenweg , a high trail from Darmstadt to Seeheim .
Others
There is said to have been a witch cult on the Ilbes mountain in ancient times . Some rocks, made of gabbro , are relatively strong magnetic , which is attributed to lightning strikes. They are protected as a geological natural monument " Magnetsteine ".
literature
- Stephanie Aurelia Runge: Magnetism on the Ilbes Mountain. In: Travel Guide Odenwald with Bergstrasse, Darmstadt, Heidelberg. Michael Müller Verlag, Erlangen 2013, p. 58.
Web links
- Natural monuments worth seeing in the Odenwald ( Magnetberg section )
- Magnetberg at Frankenstein Castle , on legendhafter-odenwald.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Quotation: "South of Frankenstein Castle, on the Magnetberg, the gabbro is anomalously magnetized by lightning, which can easily be made clear with the compass at the outcrop." From: Wolfhard Wimmenauer: Petrographie der Magmatic and Metamorphic Rocks . Enke, Stuttgart 1985. p. 106. ISBN 3-432-94671-6 ( full text ).