Junkerkuppe
| Junkerkuppe | ||
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 View from the north (location near the main road in 1002; Hohengandern - Gerbershausen ) for Junker summit |
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| height | 510.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Bornhagen - Rimbach ; Eichsfeld district , Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Höheberg , Lower Werrabergland | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 ′ 56 " N , 9 ° 57 ′ 10" E | |
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| rock | Red sandstone | |
| particularities | - Teufelskanzel (sandstone rock) - Werra loop near Lindewerra - Old Castle (Burgstall) |
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The Junkerkuppe near Rimbach in the Thuringian district of Eichsfeld is 510.7 m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain of the Höheberg ridge in the Obereichsfeld . On site are the Teufelskanzel (sandstone rock), with a view of the Werra loop near Lindewerra, and the old castle (Burgstall).
geography
location
The Junkerkuppe rises in the northwest of the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal nature park and the wooded Höheberg ridge. Its summit is located in the municipality of Bornhagen on the main ridge of the Höheberg, 500 m east of the border with the Werra-Meißner district in northern Hesse , 1 km southeast of Rimbach (zu Bornhagen), 1.2 km west-southwest of Rothenbach (Gerbershausen) and 2 km north from Lindewerra ( Stockmacherdorf ; local parish ). The municipal boundary of Bornhagen and Lindewerra runs across the high altitudes south of the summit. The nearest town is Bad Sooden-Allendorf (Hesse), which is just under 7 km south-southeast , and the district town of Heilbad Heiligenstadt (Thuringia) is just under 14 km (as the crow flies ) east-northeast.
After the landscape of south-southwest Junker summit falls to at Lindewerra located Werra from loop. A short stream rises on its southern flank, which runs through the Kelle valley and flows into the Werraschleife, and on its northwest flank the small Friesenbach as an eastern tributary of the Siesterbach , which flows into the Werra immediately after flowing through the nearby Werleshausen .
Natural allocation
The Junkerkuppe belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) and in the main unit Unteres Werrabergland (358) to the subunit Höheberg (358.6).
Mountain height
The height of the 510.7 m high Junkerkuppe is usually given as about 511 m . Some topographic maps show a 508.9 m high point near the summit , which is why the mountain height is sometimes given as only around 510 m .
Protected areas
South of the Junkerkuppe in Thuringia is the nature reserve (NSG) Kelle-Teufelskanzel ( CDDA -Nr. 164048; designated 1996; 2 km² ), to which the NSG Harthberg (CDDA-Nr. 163534; 1993; 39 ha ) is located in the west of Hesse . connects. Parts are the on the mountain landscape protection area Obereichsfeld (CDDA No. 390325;. 2009; 384.96 km²). The first-mentioned NSG is also designated as the Fauna-Flora-Habitat- Area Kelle-Teufelskanzel (FFH-Nr. 4625-303; 2 km²), and to the west of it the last-mentioned NSG is part of the FFH-area Werra- und Wehreland ( FFH no. 4825-302; 244.81 km²). On the Junkerkuppe there is also a part of the Werrabergland bird sanctuary to the southwest of Uder (VSG no. 4626-420; 84.33 km²).
Devil's pulpit
About 1.1 km south-southeast of the Junkerkuppen summit, in the direction of the Lindewerra on the Werra , lies in the forest at about 452 m altitude the legendary sandstone rock Teufelskanzel . From there, the view falls in particular down to the Werra loop with the villages of Lindewerra (in Thuringia) and Oberrieden , to the Hohe Meißner and the Kaufunger Wald (all in Hesse). The Teufelskanzel forest inn, which belongs to Bornhagen, is close to the rock .
Lindewerrablick
About 600 m south-southwest of the Junkerkuppen summit, in the area of the Innder-German border, which used to run west of the mountain, lies the Lindewerrablick viewpoint at about 420 m height , which, like the Teufelskanzel, is located above the Werra loop near Lindewerra - however, following the river downhill a little further towards Oberrieden. In contrast to the Teufelskanzel, from where Lindewerra is not completely visible due to the leafy treetops in the foreground, the view from there is of the entire village.
history
Old castle
About 400 meters of the summit dome Junker north-northwest, in the direction of at Rimbach situated castle ruins Hanstein , is "The Old Castle". The Burgstall (abandoned castle) is located in the forest at an altitude of about 440 m . There could have been a fortification there in the early Middle Ages, as the name of the nearby village of Bornhagen suggests. It is not clear whether the castle was a predecessor of the Hanstein mentioned in 1070 or a siege castle after border disputes with the neighboring Hessian landgraves. In the middle of the 14th century, disputes between the brothers Lippold and Werner von Hanstein over the Höheberg are known, who placed the mountain in Hege. You can still find a right-angled wall and moat on three sides, another moat in the direction of Rimbach and several larger stone blocks on the castle site, but no evidence of the foundation walls of solid buildings.
Inner German border
The inner German border between the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in the east and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) in the west ran past the Junkerkuppe around 500 m west of its summit during the Cold War period (1945–1990) . Its course in the area west of the Junkerkuppe became after the end of the Cold War part of the border between the German states of Thuringia with the Eichsfeld district in the east and Hesse with the Werra-Meißner district in the west. A radio station of the Ministry for State Security (Stasi) was still located on the hilltop, independent of the neighboring border installations .
hike
The Junkerkuppe can only be reached on forest paths and paths, for example during a walk starting at the nearby Hanstein castle ruins , at Lindewerra or Rothenbach . Just northeast past the peak of, among other things runs Teufelskanzel and the castle ruins Hanstein passing Herkulesweg . You can also hike in the German Green Belt on the former Kolonnenweg, which was used to secure the Innder German border that used to run on the mountain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Eichsfeldkreis LK Nordhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 1. Erfurt 1999.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Lindewerrablick (sign with altitude information 420 m ... ), accessed on April 6, 2014, from panoramio.com
- ↑ a b Old Castle in the article Burg Hanstein near Bornhagen , on burgen.ausflugsziel-harz.de
- ↑ Hans-Dieter von Hanstein (ed.): Hanstein Castle. On the 700-year history of a border fortress in Eichsfeld. Mecke Druck und Verlag, Duderstadt (Eichsfeld) 2008, ISBN 978-3-936617-48-1 , pages 81-85
- ^ Andreas Schmidt: Main Department III, radio reconnaissance and radio defense. BStU Berlin 2010 (see base system)
Web links
- The border strip then and now ( Memento from April 16, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (one photo each of the border at the Junkerkuppe from 1984 and 2014), from mdr.de