Sleeper's head
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 Drone photo from the Schläferskopf in the Taunus near Wiesbaden. |
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| height | 454.2 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Local district Wiesbaden-Dotzheim , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 6 ′ 29 " N , 8 ° 10 ′ 1" E | |
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| particularities | - Kaiser Wilhelm Tower ( AT ) - Schläferskopfstollen - Fasanerie (park) |
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The Schläferskopf is 454.2 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Taunus and is located in the Dotzheim district of the Hessian capital Wiesbaden .
The mountain name refers to the resident dormice . There is an observation tower and a forest restaurant on the summit. The Schläferskopfstollen lies inside the mountain.
geography
location
The Schläferskopf rises in the Rhine-Taunus Nature Park . Its summit is located in the urban area of Wiesbaden, 3.2 km north-northwest of the Klarenthal district , 4 km southeast of the Taunusstein district of Bleidenstadt and 4.9 km east-northeast of the core town of Schlangenbad , both of which are in the Rheingau-Taunus district of Wiesbaden . The Gehrner Bach rises to the west of the mountain and the Kaltebach to the east; they are the headwaters of the mostly in the sewers by Wiesbaden to Salzbach flowing Well Ritz Bach .
Neighboring mountains are the Hohe Wurzel ( 617.9 m ) in the west, the Biegel ( 547.4 m ) in the north-northwest, the Altenstein ( 500.6 m ) in the north-northeast and the Bleidenstadter Kopf ( 387.2 m ) in the northeast.
Natural allocation
The Schläferskopf belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit Hoher Taunus (301) to the subunit Wiesbadener Hochtaunus (301.2). From east to south its landscape falls into the natural area of Georgenborn Nauroder Slope Schuttfuß (301.20).
Protected areas
On the Schläferskopf are parts of the Wiesbaden landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 555513808; designated 2010; 133.2864 km² in size) and those of the fauna-flora-habitat area beech forests north of Wiesbaden (FFH no. 5815-306; 41.243 km²) .
Kaiser Wilhelm Tower
A wooden, 10-meter-high observation tower was erected on the summit of the Schläferskopf as early as 1883 , which was demolished in 1900 due to its dilapidation. At the instigation of the Wiesbaden Beautification Association, a 31 m high new building, the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower (formerly also called Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower ), completed in July 1906 , was built from local quarry stones and basalt lava with a "protection and refreshment room". Typical of the time, it is designed as an imitation of a medieval keep . The waiting tower standing on the polygonal platform reinforces this impression. The double spiral staircase inside the tower , which allows separate ascent and descent, is unusual .
In the restoration building, which was supplemented in 1907/08, there is a hall with a remarkable Art Nouveau window. It comes from the Wiesbaden glass manufacturer Albert Zentner , which also designed the windows in the churches of Wiesbaden-Medenbach and Otzberg . The Kaiser Wilhelm room is also furnished with an oil painting showing the Kaiser at a hunting scene.
On September 16, 2014, the city council of Wiesbaden decided to extensively renovate the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower in 2015, for which 700,000 euros were earmarked. The two mobile phone providers who operate transmitters on the tower also contribute to the costs with around 52,000 euros. The tower renovation was completed in May 2016. It was planned to be able to climb the tower via the affiliated restaurant during its opening hours. However, this was closed a short time later and was foreclosed. The power of disposal now lies with the city of Wiesbaden, which is looking for a reputable operator for the restaurant who will also take over the closing service for the observation tower. Until then, the tower can usually not be climbed. On the initiative of the Rhein-Taunus-Klub Wiesbaden, the tower was opened to visitors for three days in 2019.
From the observation platform of the tower, the view falls over the Taunus and in a southerly direction into the Upper Rhine Plain with Wiesbaden.
Schläferskopfstollen
The portal of the Schläferskopfstollen ( ⊙ ) in the mountain is located near the Fasanerie animal and plant park , about 1000 m east of the summit . The 2.8 km long tunnel was designed by the regional geologist Carl Koch and excavated into the Taunus between 1875 and 1910 in order to pump the spring water present in the Taunus quartzite. In 1900, work was temporarily interrupted at a length of 1846 m and an overburden of 140 m at the end of the tunnel. It first traverses rock debris and weathered layers, then steps of colorful phyllite , sandstone with mica and Taunus quartzite . Today it supplies up to 2 million cubic meters of water a year, between 1902 and 1903 it was just under 1 million. A fountain near the tunnel mouth hole , which is supplied from the nearby Kreuzstollen , is used by Wiesbaden citizens for water supply.
Transport, hiking, leisure
To the north of the Schläferskopf, federal road 54 runs over the Eiserne Hand mountain pass . From a parking lot near the road bridge over the Aartalbahn , which passes east of the mountain, you have to walk south on Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße for about 2 km to the mountain top; The mountain can also be approached directly on this route. The next local transport stop in Wiesbaden is located a little north of the road bridge at the Eiserne Hand station of the Aartalbahn . Until 2009 the mountain was directly connected to local transport. The Fasanerie animal and plant park is located in the Kaltebach valley. The former summer resort at Chausseehaus is located on the near south-east flank of the neighboring Hohe Wurzel .
See also
Web links
- The Schläferskopf in the northwest of Wiesbaden ( Memento from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c Sina Schreiner The outlook as a reward ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ( Wiesbadener Kurier ), from July 29, 2010, accessed on April 27, 2016, from wiesbadener-tagblatt.de
- ↑ Heinrich Müller-Miny, Martin Bürgener: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 138 Koblenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1971. → Online map (PDF; 5.7 MB)
- ^ A b Sigrid Russ, Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Hesse; Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany: Cultural monuments in Hessen, Wiesbaden II - The villa areas; Vieweg 1988; ISBN 3-528-06236-3 ; P. 610 f
- ↑ The Schläferskopf in the northwest of Wiesbaden ( Memento from August 7, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Monumente-online: A double helix for the spa view , on monumente-online.de
- ↑ Fresh wind on the Schläferskopf from July 7, 2017 on faz.net, accessed on November 19, 2017
- ↑ Information on the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower and the temporary opening times at rhein-taunus-klub.de, accessed on June 3, 2019
- ↑ Andreas Hoppe: Mapped cities: Mainz and Wiesbaden in the field of tension between natural space and socialization, Volume 13 of Interdisciplinary Urban Research, Constanze Bückner (Ed.), Campus Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-35-9-339573-9 , p. 85
- ↑ Drinking water mines ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), in visits , accessed on April 27, 2016, from hessenwasser.de
- ^ Yearbook of the Kgl. Geol. Landesanstalt für 1901, Vol. XXII, Issue 3, pp. 341–346.
- ↑ a b c Treatises of the Royal Prussian Geological State Institute and Mining Academy . Issue 41.1905
- ↑ a b Brunnen am Schläferskopfstollen donates water "from the mountain" ( memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), in press release of the Darmstadt Regional Council , accessed on April 27, 2016, from rp-darmstadt.hessen.de
- ^ Christian Struck: A ritual similar to a pilgrimage ( Memento from June 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) ( Wiesbadener Kurier ), accessed on April 27, 2016, from wiesbadener-kurier.de