Karlskuppe
| Karlskuppe | ||
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 View over the Ramsborn to the Karlswald and the Karlskuppe |
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| height | 377.1 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Eisenach in Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Creuzburg – Eisenacher Graben , West Thuringian mountain and hill country | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '28 " N , 10 ° 16' 52" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone, loose clay stones (Keuper) | |
The Karlskuppe is a mountain in the west of the Wartburg city of Eisenach in Thuringia .
topography
The Karlskuppe is a west-east-oriented mountain ( 377.1 m above sea level ) consisting of shell limestone and Keuper ; it borders the Eisenach basin at the Creuzburg – Eisenacher Graben to the west. Its eastern foothills are the Geisköpf, the Kirschberg and the Michelskuppe. In the north follows the Moseberg , in the west a number of other elevations (only Wolfberg and Spickersberg are distinctive, collectively they are referred to as the Stedtfelder Mountains) to the Hörschelberg at the Thuringian Gate. The steep drop from the Karlswald to the Hörseltal is also known as the Karlswand.
history
In the historical descriptions of the western urban area of Eisenach, the corridor in question was initially referred to as Ramsberg because of its proximity to Gut Ramsborn . The area belonged to the village of Oberstedtfeld with the church of St. Michael until the 16th century. In the Marktbörner Feld on the eastern flank of the Karlskuppe, several springs sprang up, the water of which has been led to the Marktbrunnen (Gülden-Manns-Brunnen) in Eisenach's old town since the Middle Ages using a wooden pipe. The name Karlskuppe did not emerge until the 19th century, when after centuries of agricultural cultivation the reforestation of the Karlswald began. At the edge of the forest, several ditches overgrown by scrub occupy the course of an old road in the Hessian Ringgau (Willershausen, Altefeld, Datterode), the current districts of Stedtfeld and Hörschel as well as the Krauthäus districts of Pferdsdorf and Spichra also used the Höhenweg as a market path. It was only with the expansion of the Casseler Chaussee as the forerunner of today's federal highway 7 and the streets in the Hörseltal via Stedtfeld to Wartha-Neuenhof in the 19th century that the importance of this old street declined.
In the 1930s, a route for the construction of the Reichsautobahn near Eisenach was planned over the northern flank of the Karlskuppe. The construction work was interrupted by the war and was not completed until the beginning of the 1980s according to new plans. At the same time as the construction of the Werra Valley Bridge near Hörschel , the GÜST Wartha GDR border crossing point was built on the northwest slope below the Karlskuppe and the corridors adjoining it to the west. In the run-up to the construction work, the Karlskuppe was declared a restricted area by a resolution of the GDR government and entry to the site was forbidden. Corresponding warning signs were only removed in the winter of 1989-90.
The "Eisenacher Stadtautobahn" has been running on the northern flank of the Karlskuppe since 2009. The corridor district adjacent to the north belonged to the Ramsborn, the western and southern corridor districts were part of the municipality of Stedtfeld .
In the 1990s, the Karlskuppe residential area was created as a contribution to urban development. The city district also includes a shopping center at the (old) Eisenach-West motorway junction.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
- ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office TK25 - sheet 4927 - Creuzburg , Erfurt 1994, ISBN 3-86140-047-2
- ^ Heinrich Weigel walks around Eisenach. Eisenach writings on local history booklet 7. Eisenach 1979
- ↑ Manfred Kaiser: 1075 years of Hörschel . A look into Hörschler's past. Druckhaus Gast and Frisch. Eisenach 2007. pp. 16-23.