Jüberg
| Jüberg | ||
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 The sky ladder leads to the Jüberg |
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| height | 305.2 m above sea level NN | |
| location | at Hemer ; Märkischer Kreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Sauerland | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 23 '26 " N , 7 ° 47' 15" E | |
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| particularities | Sauerland Park Hemer z. B. with observation tower Jübergturm | |
The Jüberg is a 305.2 m above sea level. NN high elevation near Hemer in the Märkisches Kreis in North Rhine-Westphalia . The Sauerlandpark Hemer with the Jübergturm observation tower is located on and on the mountain . Many legends about giants play around the Jüberg, from which it got its name ("Joten": giant).
geography
location
The Jüberg rises as the western foothills of the Hoppenberg ( 341.7 m ) east of the core town of Hemer , through which the Hönne tributary Oese flows , south of Becke , west of Apricke and northwest of Deilinghofen , all of which belong to the Hemeraner urban area. It limits the area of the State Garden Show Hemer 2010 to the east. A part of the landscape protection area Märkischer Kreis ( CDDA -Nr. 378576), which was designated in 2006 and is 311.13 km² in size, spreads over the Jüberg . Until the closure of the Blücher barracks , the mountain separated the area in the west from the training area in the east.
Natural allocation
The Jüberg belongs to the natural area main unit group Süderbergland (number 33), in the main unit Bergisch-Sauerländisches Unterland (337) in the Iserlohner Kalksenken (337 2 9) to the natural area Iserlohner Senke (337 2 91).
Barracks and prisoner of war camp
In the 1930s, the Wehrmacht built a barracks at Jübergfuß, which was used as the Stalag VI A prisoner-of-war camp from 1939 and was last called the Blücher barracks . As the "Cross of Reconciliation over the graves", Catholic and Protestant youth organizations erected an approximately 7.5 meter high cross in 1947 , which stands approximately 35 meters south-southeast of the Jübergturm; a few meters south-southeast of the cross is a 299.7 m high point. The consecration of the cross took place in September 1947. In 2009 the symbol was renewed. The current cross is about 8 m high and 3 m wide, with a weight of 280 kilograms. The consecration of this cross took place in May 2009.
Aviation
Even before the barracks were built, the Jüberg was checked for its suitability for gliding by sports enthusiasts from Hemeran . According to reports from the Märkischer Landboten (October 1932), there should be test flights and then gliding flights on the western slope of the Jüberg. The Hemer Fliegergruppe was founded. The airfield itself was on the Deilinghofen field. With the start of construction work on the barracks, the activities of the Hemer Air Force were relocated to the Iserlohn-Sümmern airfield .
Sauerland Park Hemer
On the western edge of the Jübergs is composed of the grounds of the Landesgartenschau Hemer 2010 emerged Sauerland Hemer , an about 27 ha big amusement park in which the essential elements of the former Garden Show Park - like the Grohe forum , the theme gardens , the observation tower Jübergturm and the Park of the Senses - are preserved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
- ^ Karin von Gymnich: From Adjutantenkamp to Zepellinstrasse. Tell Hemer's street names. 1st edition, Hemer 1986.
- ↑ Hemer 1944-1949 . Memories, eyewitness reports and documents from a time of upheaval. Editor: Hans-Hermann Stopsack, Menden and Hemer 2004, p. 286
- ^ Westfalenpost, October 10, 2007 : A glider named "Hemer 1". Fliegergruppe founded 75 years ago: Best thermals at Jüberg Access: January 2, 2010