Juhöhe
| Juhöhe | |||
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| Compass direction | northwest | Southeast | |
| Pass height | 371 m above sea level NHN | ||
| Communities |
Heppenheim , ( Bergstrasse district , Hesse ) |
Mörlenbach , (Bergstrasse district, Hesse) |
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| Watershed | Stadtbach ( Weschnitz ) | Ederbach (Weschnitz) | |
| Valley locations | Heppenheim (Bergstrasse) |
Bonsweiher (Bergstrasse) |
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| expansion | State road 3120 | ||
| Mountains | Odenwald | ||
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| Coordinates | 49 ° 37 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 41 ′ 30" E | ||
The Juhöhe near the Juhöhe settlement in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse is about 371 m above sea level. NHN high and Odenwald situated mountain pass of the main road 3120 between Heppenheim and Mörlenbach .
While the pass belongs to Heppenheim, the nearby Juhöhe settlement is part of the Mörlenbach district of Bonsweiher .
geography
location
The Juhöhe is located in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald nature park about 100 m north of the border between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg , 300 m northwest of the Mörlenbach settlement Juhöhe and 1.7 km (as the crow flies ) northeast of the village church of the Heppenheim district of Ober-Laudenbach , which is known as the Hessian The exclave is surrounded by Baden-Württemberg territory. It is located between the Kohlplatte (approx. 345 m ) in the north, the Zigeunerkopf ( 359.5 m ) in the east-northeast, the Großer Köpfchen ( 376.2 m ) in the south-southeast and the Steinkopf ( 402.1 m ) in the west.
Natural allocation
The Juhöhe belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (No. 14) in the main unit Vorderer Odenwald (145) to the subunit Juchhöh-Odenwald (145.2).
Flowing waters
The Stadtbach flows from near the pass to the northwest, the Ederbach to the southeast and tributaries of the Laudenbach to the southwest ; they all feed the Weschnitz , whereby the water of the Laudenbach reaches this via the artificially created swallow number ditch. In addition, the Stadtbach tributary Erbach runs roughly to the west from near the pass .
Pass height
The Juhöhe located on 371 m pass . About 700 m as the crow flies east of the mountain pass is a 359.9 m high point on the road Auf der Juhöhe , to which the often mentioned height of around 360 m should refer. More rarely, heights of 366 m and 362 m are mentioned, but this refers to places in the Mörlenbach settlement Juhöhe.
geology
The Juhöhe is located in the Bergstrasse Odenwald, which extends as the western part of the Crystalline Odenwald from Darmstadt to Heidelberg . The ridge between Heppenheim and Weinheim consists essentially of the granodiorite of the → Weschnitzpluton , which was formed in the Lower Carboniferous about 333 to 329 million years ago with the Variscan mountain formation . During these tectonic processes, crevices tore open again and again in the rock masses, into which melts penetrated and crystallized into gangue rocks , for example the kersantite dikes on the Juhöhe ( stone wall northwest of the Steinkopf ).
Millions of years later, the granite rock castles were built on the Juhöhe in the Tertiary : the warm, humid climate promoted weathering and the streams of the Weschnitz side valleys near Mörlenbach, such as the Ederbach, cut deep into the terrain and "sawed" the mountain massifs. Its upper parts on the ridge of the Juhöhe were torn into blocks, which were then rounded off by chemical weathering ( wool sack weathering ).
history
The oldest human traces in the Juhöhe area probably go back to the Neolithic Age . In the years 1892, 1903 and 1928 archaeologists opened four burial mounds surrounded by stone wreaths near the stone head and discovered spherical storage vessels, mugs made of clay with string decorations, stone axes and knives made of flint. They assigned the finds to the band and cord ceramists who lived from around 2500 to 1800 BC. Lived. However, it is controversial whether their settlement was on the mountain or in a valley facing the mountain road. The dating of slag from a copper smelter found near the graves is also uncertain.
Natural and cultural monuments
- The accumulations of large granodiorite blocks and rock castles near the Holzerne Hand car park in the direction of the Kohlplatte on the Juhöhe were created by the weathering of wool sacks and the removal of the weathered debris (see above). Some characteristic formations connected the people with legends that should explain their origin:
- From the Frauenhecke car park (circular route 5) you can reach the dog heads , the fossilized remains of the Rodensteiner's dogs that accompanied the ghost rider on his wild hunt through the air.
- The sacrificial stones on the way to the Kreiswald (approx. 1 km from the Frauenhecke car park ) are granite rocks with eroded bowl-shaped cavities that inspire imaginative stories: The grooves are the devil's scratch marks, and people have placed offerings in the bowls.
- From the An der Lee parking lot you can get to Neolithic barrows (see above) on the Steinkopf (educational trail with information boards)
- Granite blocks with carved crosses on the high path to the district forest were previously used as storage stones to mark the border. They can be found near the younger hewn stones (e.g. approx. 1 km from the Frauenhecke car park on the edge of the forest and on the northern part of circular path no. 8 around the district forest ).
- The half-timbered house, which replaced the "Juchhe-Häuschen" (see above), in which the Hölzerlipsbande were entertained before the robbery at Laudenbach, is on Heppenheimer Straße (L 3120) as the second house behind the intersection in the direction of Heppenheim.
- The restored draw well on the way towards Kreiswald is the historic 14 m deep community well, which, in addition to five private wells before the construction of the aqueduct in 1908, ensured the supply of the population.
Hiking trails
Marked hiking trails lead from the An der Lee , Hölzerne Hand , Frauenhecke parking lots (hiking and cycling map No. 8 of the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park ): Bergstrasse-Weschnitz Valley to the natural and cultural monuments (see above).
Forest and high-altitude trails connect the Juhöhe with the excursion destinations Bonsweiher (pond in Unerts), Waldsee near Klein-Breitenbach (partly Mörlenbach art trail ), Kreiswald and Albersbach (partly fruit meadow nature trail ). On the mountain ridge to the south with views of the Weschnitz valley or the Rhine plain and past the natural and cultural monuments on the Kreuzberg you reach the Waldner tower or Balzenbach.
literature
- Otto Wagner (editor): Heimatbuch Mörlenbach. Self-published by the municipality of Mörlenbach, 1983
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographic map Lindenfels 6318 , M = 1: 25,000 (TK 25), published by the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Odenwald , official map of the Odenwaldklubs , Ravenstein hiking map, p. 910, 37th edition, M = 1: 100,000, published by Ravenstein Geographische Verlagsanstalt und Druckerei GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 1964
- ↑ Odenwald Nature Park, Bergstrasse and Neckar Valley , hiking map with hiking trails of the Odenwald Club, sheet RV 14, M = 1: 100,000, published by Reise- und Verkehrsverlag Stuttgart (RV; geographical-cartographic institute and map publisher)
- ↑ Fascinated by the first settlement information ( memento of the original from May 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from July 29, 2010, on echo-online.de
- ↑ s. Wagner, 1983, picture p. 59
- ↑ s. Wagner, 1983, picture p. 559
- ↑ s. Wagner, 1983, picture p. 222
- ↑ s. Wagner, 1983, picture p. 223
- ^ Krausnick, Michael : Profession: Robber. About the terrible Mannefriedrich and the misdeeds of the Hölzerlips gang. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 1978 and Beltz Gelberg Verlag, Weinheim 1990.
- ↑ Preuss, Dieter and Peter Dietrich: Hölzerlips (report on the poetic life of the vagabonds and highwaymen on the Winter Breath, but especially of the rise of the box grocer Hölzerlips to the Odenwald robber captain). Ravensburg 1986.
- ↑ s. Wagner, 1983, picture p. 336
