Hülser Berg
| Hülser Berg | ||
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 Johannesturm on the Hülser Berg |
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| height | 63 m | |
| location | Krefeld , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 23 '11 " N , 6 ° 32' 17" E | |
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| particularities | Highest natural mountain in Krefeld , Johannesturm ( AT ) | |
At 63 meters, the Hülser Berg is the highest natural elevation in the city of Krefeld and is located about two kilometers northeast of the village of Hüls, which was incorporated in 1975 in the Traar district . In publications and reports from the time before the incorporation one can also find the term "Hülser Berg im Kempener Land".
The Hülser Berg in Krefeld is dominated by two other elevations, which, however, are of unnatural origin: The Kapuzinerberg (77 m) emerged from a former household waste dump of the city of Krefeld and the Inrather Berg (87 m) is the result of a former rubble dump, which u. a. consists of the rubble from the buildings in Krefeld that were bombed during World War II .
Emergence
The Hülser Berg emerged as part of the Lower Rhine ridge during the Drenthe advance of the Saale Ice Age around 150,000 years ago. The piled up rubble, which the glaciers from Scandinavia pushed in front of and under them, remained behind after thawing in the form of a swaging moraine . The nearby Wolfsberg, which is part of the Schaephuysener ridge that continues to the north, was created in the same way. The Egelsberg, east of Hülser Berg, is a sander crossed by the glacier . This Ice Age treasure trove shapes the surface of the Lower Rhine Bay today .
Historical
The oldest human traces on Hülser Berg were found by Detlef Stender around 1979. These are Mesolithic sites from the end of the last Ice Age (approx. 8000 BC ) to the beginning of the Neolithic ( approx. 5500 BC ). Flint artifacts (arrowheads and flint cuts) were found. The highest concentration of artifacts was found on the eastern slope. Due to the high concentration of finds and the nature of the finds, it can be concluded that the people on Hülser Berg stayed for a long time. The finds are now in the Museum Burg Linn (Krefeld).
In 1909 the remains of a Celtic camp were excavated on the Hülser Berg . It consisted of a 400 meter long double wall. Burns and tools were found. These findings were documented in an article by Detlef Stender and Thomas Ruppel.
Everywhere on the Hülser Berg there are so-called clay pits : Round depressions of 10 to 20 meters in diameter bear witness to the former mining sites of the clay diggers, which the Hülser pot and pan bakers (potters and manufacturers of roof tiles) supplied with raw materials for their production. From the 17th to 19th centuries, Hüls was one of the most important pot-baker's villages on the left Lower Rhine.
In the period from 1600 to 1800 there was a place of execution on Hülser Berg, the "Galgenberg". It was located where the railway line known today as silt cuts the Hülser Berg on its northwestern foothills. Here were robbers and criminals on the gallows or decapitation executed. Also executions of alleged witches took place here.
Say
According to a local legend, the Hülser Berg came into being when a giant stumbled over a jungle in the darkness with a wheelbarrow full of sand and clay, which he brought from the Harz foothills . The wheelbarrow tipped over and the Hülser Berg was created.
In the vernacular of Hüls, stories are told of the "Erdmännekes vom Hölschenberg", who, similar to the Heinzelmännchen, do good deeds.
Another legend tells of a dwarf people who lived in the mountain. His king had a relationship with the daughter of the Count of Cracow near Krefeld. Once he was surprised by the count and killed by him with an arrow shot. The dwarf people in Hülser Berg buried their king at the count's castle pond and sang a strange funeral song. Each time they sang the song, one of them would jump into the water until they were all eventually drowned.
Another legend is about the meerkats or herdmen who originally lived in the nearby Wachtendonk . When the residents there annoyed them too much, they moved to Hülser Berg. They lived there where the observation tower now stands. The peasants in the area often heard noises as they passed the mountain, but could never find anything. It is said that as long as the meerkats lived in the mountain, the farmers had good days.
Attractions
- Children's playground
- Fitness-yourself-path
- Hiking trails (in the Hülser Bruch , to the Eremitenquelle and to the Krefeld hot spring )
- Forest educational trail along the hiking trails with numerous information boards about flora and fauna in general and typical for the area
- Johannesturm (30 m, 163 steps, built in 1973) with a view over the Lower Rhine and Ruhr areas .
- The aforementioned Junkers memorial is located near the observation tower.
- On the southern edge of the mountain Hülser one are fallow deer , a - wild - and a deer park created
- Krefeld environmental center, extracurricular learning center for environmental education in the city of Krefeld
- Gnome exhibition when you walk through the forest of the Hülser Berg, if you look more closely you can see that there are small hand-carved wooden figures in the trees
Silt
A special way of visiting the Hülser Berg is the " Schluff ", a museum train that runs according to the summer schedule from St. Tönis via Krefeld to the Hülser Berg.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Geology on the Lower Rhine. 4th, revised and expanded edition. GLA NRW, Krefeld 1988, ISBN 3-86029-909-3 .
- ↑ Lookout tower on the Hülser Berg - Safe steps to the top, retrieved from wz-newsline.de on December 11, 2008