Kühberg (Salzburg)

Kühberg
	Kühberg with Neuhaus Castle
height	711 m above sea level A.
location	Salzburg , Austria
Mountains	Osterhorn Group
Dominance	0.42 km → Gersberg
Notch height	30 m ↓ Scharte to Gersberg
Coordinates	47 ° 48 '34 " N , 13 ° 5' 9" E Coordinates: 47 ° 48 '34 " N , 13 ° 5' 9" E
particularities	Neuhaus Castle

The Kühberg is a 711 m high foothills of the Gaisberg in the east of the Austrian city of Salzburg . The medieval Neuhaus Castle is located on a small foothill of the Kühberg .

Naming

The name of the Kühberg is derived, as in many other cases of identical names, from the cows or cow pastures.

Flora and fauna

On the Kühberg there is a small stand of pine trees that are around 200 years old ; a heather pine forest grows on very barren limestone and dolomite soils (very shallow limestone, brown soils and Rendsina soils). Such stocks have become very rare in the state today. The habitat is one of the most endangered biotope types across the country.

The large, slow-growing orchid beech forest that surrounds the pines is characterized by a large number of orchids : In addition to the three species of forest birds, fly ragweed , nestwort , brown-red stendellus , forest hyacinth and large two- leaved flourish on the barren and dry soils . The beech forest is one of the oldest forests in the city of Salzburg.

Eagle owls breed in inaccessible places in the rocks of the Kühberg .

Neuhaus Castle

Neuhaus Castle, built towards the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century, was the seat of a nursing court from the 16th century , whose area of jurisdiction encompassed the area of several present-day communities east and north of the city of Salzburg. The facility is now privately owned and is not open to the public.

literature

Reinhard Medicus: The Kühberg in cultural and natural history , in: "Bastei" magazine of the Salzburg City Association, year 2009, volume 2, Salzburg 2009; identical in: Harald Lohmann, Helmut Laimer, Claudia Willi: Parsch tells. History and Stories of a Salzburg District , Association District Development, Salzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-200-01351-3

Web links

Kühberg on Wikimedia Commons

Individual evidence

^ Franz Hörburger : Salzburg Place Name Book , edited by Ingo Reiffenstein and Leopold Ziller, ed. from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Salzburg 1982, p. 124;
Ingo Reiffenstein and Thomas Lindner: Historical-Etymological Lexicon of Salzburg Place Names (HELSON) . Volume 1 - City of Salzburg and Flachgau, Edition Tandem, Salzburg 2015 [= 32nd supplementary volume of the communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies ], ISBN 978-3-902932-30-3 , p. 70.
The forest cover on the mountain would also suggest to that - as in field names with Küh- indeed true sometimes - the name of Kien ( kindling ) herleite, but because of the evidence base of Kühberg in conjunction with the word history of Kien . (see . Kluge etymological dictionary of the German Language , edited by Elmar Sebold, 24th, revised and expanded edition, Berlin: de Gruyter 2002 (CD-ROM)) is not possible.

[1] Franz Hörburger : Salzburg Place Name Book , edited by Ingo Reiffenstein and Leopold Ziller, ed. from the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies , Salzburg 1982, p. 124;
Ingo Reiffenstein and Thomas Lindner: Historical-Etymological Lexicon of Salzburg Place Names (HELSON) . Volume 1 - City of Salzburg and Flachgau, Edition Tandem, Salzburg 2015 [= 32nd supplementary volume of the communications of the Society for Salzburg Regional Studies ], ISBN 978-3-902932-30-3 , p. 70.
The forest cover on the mountain would also suggest to that - as in field names with Küh- indeed true sometimes - the name of Kien ( kindling ) herleite, but because of the evidence base of Kühberg in conjunction with the word history of Kien . (see . Kluge etymological dictionary of the German Language , edited by Elmar Sebold, 24th, revised and expanded edition, Berlin: de Gruyter 2002 (CD-ROM)) is not possible.