Katzenstein (Affalter)
| Katzenstein | ||
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| height | 627.4 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Dominance | 2.6 km → Windberg | |
| Notch height | 87 m | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 39 '16 " N , 12 ° 45' 29" E | |
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| Type | Ridges | |
| rock | Phyllite and quartzite | |
| particularities | highest mountain in the city of Loessnitz | |
The Katzenstein (627 m) is a mountain in the form of an elongated ridge in the Ore Mountains , about eight kilometers northeast of the city of Aue . The Katzenstein forms the highest point of the northern edge of the Ore Mountains and at the same time represents the highest elevation in the corridor area of the city of Lößnitz .
Location and surroundings
In the immediate vicinity of the Katzenstein, in the area of the town of Lößnitz, there is the district of Streitwald , south of the district of Affalter , south-west of Grüna and north of the town of Stollberg - the district of Gablenz . On the northwest slope there is a small settlement, which was named after a former road money collection point and later restaurant Waldschenke .
On the top there is a trigonometric ground point , a standing within 500 meters Mobilfunkmast of Deutsche Telekom with six antennas, and a measurement point of the Royal Saxon triangulation ( "Nagelsche pillar") of 1864, whose annual indication - 1804 is painted wrong -.
Administratively, the Katzenstein belongs to the upper part of Affalter and since the incorporation in 1999 to the urban area of Lößnitz. To the south-east - already located in the neighboring Zwönitz - is the Windberg , at 627.5 meters just under the highest point on the Zwönitz plateau .
geography
The Katzenstein is part of the northern edge of the Erzgebirge, whose forehead protrudes 100 meters from the surrounding area along the iron path towards Galgenholz over the tobacco fir (near Thalheim ) to Burkhardtsdorf and then gradually drops to 530 meters. The northern edge step was erosively cut by its source streams and is about 50% forested. To the west, Zwickauer Mulde and Lößnitzbach erosively dissolved the edge step and dug themselves deep into the mountains. Its continuation can only be found west of the Muldental near Langenweißbach . In the northeast, behind the Harthauer Berg , the edge step was erosively dissolved by the Zwönitz , its continuation can be found beyond the Zwönitz with the Dittersdorfer Höhe near Amtsberg .
The Katzenstein is also part of the northern part of the Zwönitz plateau, which extends in the south to Kühnhaide . It mainly consists of only slightly to moderately sloping slope hollows and hollow valleys, which mainly drain towards Chemnitz . The next higher mountain is the Windberg , 2.6 kilometers away and also belonging to the Zwönitz plateau , which is only separated from the Katzenstein by the upper Lößnitz valley.
The plateau, which towers noticeably over the western and northern surroundings, is exposed to strong winds. The exposed position of the Katzenstein causes climatic windward effects in north- westerly weather conditions .
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geology
The Katzenstein consists essentially of softer phyllites from the Ordovician Frauenbach series (cabbage forest quartzite). The Ordovician phyllites are characterized by a higher content of feldspar (albite), which forms grains up to pea-sized , compared to the normal light and mica-rich phyllites that are usually found on the southern edge of the Lößnitz-Zwönitzer Mulde . That is why one speaks of albite phyllite. Resistant and weather-resistant quartzite can be found slightly south of the summit . Silurian alum and silica slate can be found further east on the basins of the Upper Halsbach . Graptolites are more common in the more easily weathered alum slate . Weathered rock layers of slate-like phyllites can be found throughout .
history
In 1431, a dispute between Abbot Ern Eberharde from Grünhain Abbey and the Schönburgers on Hartenstein and the Niederzwönitz manor began about forest areas east of the Katzenstein . An agreement was only reached in 1476 and ended with the setting of a three-layer stone. It is believed that this is where the name for the adjacent wooded area comes from, ym Streitholcze .
The Dreilagenstein, which was still on Oeder's map in 1618 and was last recorded in 1876, is back today. On June 3, 1995, a three-part stone with the coats of arms of those of Schönberg, Schönburg and the Grünhain monastery was inaugurated by the mayors of Affalter, Stollberg and Zwönitz, created by the daughter of the last gentleman from Schönberg auf Niederzwönitz, Mrs. Benedikta von Schönberg Paulich. Another stone of the same name is located in Geyer's forest and was also set during a berainung.
Often attempts were made to mine in vain in the Streitwald . Only in 1597 was a treasure trove recorded that Eisenstein might have supplied for the Niederaffalter weapon hammer.
In 1582 the Hartstein part came to the Lichtensteiner Schönburgers, who built a game fence with a gate, near which, at the upper end of Affalter, there was a forester's house in 1603. In 1715, next to the forester's house, forest parcels were assigned by the rulers for house building and clearing . The resulting settlement was called Neudörffgen or Streithäußer in 1723 . To the east of this - today also called Streitwald - housing estate is a moor, which supplied peat bricks until 1880. In the time of need around 1948, one million peat bricks were produced for the residents of Affalter within three years.
Road tolls were to be paid at the Waldschenke until 1885 (e.g. 12 pfennigs for a horse), a milestone that fell victim to road construction in 1972 continued to stand here .
The Katzenstein transmitter was located on the Katzenstein until 1973 .
Flora and fauna
The flat ridges of the Zwönitz plateau are mainly used for agriculture. In the mostly wet hollow forms, one finds grassland, in the battle forest even small peat formations . In addition to the war forest, which is partly soaked by congestion, the corridors of Kühnhaide have the lowest quality soils. The above-mentioned rock also provides rock-rich and at the same time nutrient-poor soils. However, there are more favorable relief conditions compared to the Lößnitzgetäle. In the full forms of the flat, undulating relief there are widespread skeletal brown earths . In the shallow spring troughs of the Upper Halsbach you can find fresh and moist silty Staugleye , and there are also small boggy and peaty islands.
The Niederzwönitz forest area , which lies between the Großem Stein and the Großer Teich , and the Streitwald form the only larger forest area on the Zwönitz plateau. These spruce forests to the east of the Katzenstein initially appear like a piece of untouched nature. But the forest today has nothing in common with the primeval forest at the time of the first settlement, as it has been subject to constant use for centuries, especially because of mining.
The forest area is drained in the east through the Upper Halsbach and the Wernsbach in the direction of Zwönitz , and in the north through the Gablenzbach and the Upper Querenbach in the direction of Würschnitz . Furthermore, the Oberdorfer Bach and the Beuthenbach , also flowing into the Würschnitz, rise on the west side of the Katzenstein , and the Lößnitzbach in the south towards the Zwickauer Mulde. The Zwönitz plateau with Katzenstein and Windberg represents a watershed .
view
The view covers large parts of the western Ore Mountains, the Erzgebirge foothills and the Leipzig lowland bay. To the south are the Fichtel- (29 km), Keil- (32 km), Platten- (29 km), Auers- (26 km), Scheibenberg , the Bärenstein (25 km), the Spiegelwald (9 km) , the Morgenleithe (15 km), the upper basin of the Markersbach pumped storage plant (18 km) and the Geyerische Fernsehturm to see, in the north the two chimneys of the Lippendorf lignite power plant near Böhlen (64 km). On only a few days a year, a distant view of the Völkerschlachtdenkmal (77 km) in Leipzig is possible. In the past, four pointed cone heaps (50 km) could be seen to the west, which were a relic of the Ronneburg uranium mining, the leveling of which was completed in 2007.
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Paths to the Katzenstein
The Waldschenke , like the Streitwald, offer parking and is the starting point for an ascent. Furthermore, the Eisenweg offers the possibility to reach the Katzenstein by bike.
literature
- Between Zwickauer Mulde and Geyerschem Wald (= values of our homeland . Volume 31). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1980.
