Keudelskuppe
| Keudelskuppe | ||
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 View from northwest (Döringsdorf) |
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| height | 484.7 m | |
| location | Eichsfeld district , Thuringia | |
| Mountains | Plesse as part of the Wanfrieder Werrahöhen , Oberes Eichsfeld | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 12 '20 " N , 10 ° 11' 12" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone , red sandstone | |
The Keudelskuppe is a 484.7 m high mountain in southern Eichsfeld in northwest Thuringia ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The Keudelskuppe is located in the extreme south of the Eichsfeld district , in the border area to the districts of Unstrut-Hainich (TH) and Werra-Meißner (HE). It is located between the villages of Döringsdorf in the northwest, Hildebrandshausen in the east and Wanfried in the south, about 18 kilometers south of the district town of Heilbad Heiligenstadt . The mountain is the highest point on the Plesse ridge .
Natural allocation
According to the natural spatial structure in the Kassel sheet, the mountain is one of the Wanfrieder Werra heights (No. 483.22), an extension of the western upper area (No. 483.2) and part of the north-western edge of the Thuringian Basin (No. 483).
In accordance with the inner- Thuringian structure ( The Natural Spaces of Thuringia ), its Thuringian part is assigned to the Werrabergland-Hörselberge unit.
nature
The completely forested hilltop, only the northern slopes are used for agriculture, belongs to the so-called Junker wood and is part of the LSG Keudelskuppe and eastern edge of the Plesse .
The Keudelskuppe and the adjacent mountains are a popular excursion and hiking area with a varied landscape and nature and are now part of the Green Belt . The mountain plateau allows a view of parts of the southern dike field and the adjacent north-east Hessian mountainous region.
history
A medieval castle called Plesse or Keudelstein is said to have been located on the summit . It was probably made by Gottschalk III. von Plesse built on behalf of Kurmainz to secure the border against Hesse in the middle of the 13th century. Excavations revealed an oval shape of the complex with a bailey. Judging by the foundations of the palace, the house was made of half-timbered houses, and steep slopes on three sides continued to provide protection. The dimensions of the hall were 9.12 m × 7.50 m. Four basement rooms were still marked by foundation walls that rested directly on rocks. Access was only possible from the Plesse via a narrow mountain ridge. Ditches for a main castle and outer bailey can still be seen in the area today. In the vicinity of the castle complex there were small village and farm settlements, in the southeast of the hilltop the village of Kubsdorf , to the east of the Plesse the village of Wintersdorf and south of the Plesse the desert town of Burgerode . This castle stable did not last long. Only the Kubsdorf settlement existed longer and was only mentioned as a desert around 1500. In the 13th century two gentlemen from Keudell zu Kubstedt are mentioned (1227 Albertus and 1271 Reinhold).
In 1583 a new Vorwerk was built by Bernd Keudel at the same place, the later Gut Keudelstein . The beginning of the construction work can be seen on a historical border map from 1583. The Keudelsteiner forester's house was later built near the property.
The border between the Electoral Mainz Eichsfeld (later the Prussian Province of Saxony and today's Free State of Thuringia) and the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel (later the Electorate of Hesse, the Prussian Province of Hesse-Nassau and what is today) then ran over the Plesse and on the western slope of the Keudelskuppe State of Hesse). This border course is still marked and precisely defined with old boundary stones today. After 1945 this border separated not only the American and Soviet occupation zones, but after 1949 also the two German states. From 1952, the expansion of the border fortifications began gradually. Since no border fortifications could be built on the western side of the Keudelskuppe due to the unfavorable terrain, they were built on the eastern side of the hilltop. The Keudelstein estate and the forester's house were gradually demolished as part of the border security on the inner German border from the 1960s. Today you can only find remains of cellar vaults there. Immediately on the hilltop there was also an observation post (with a bunker system) of the Soviet armed forces, from here troop movements and other incidents in the Werra valley were supposed to be observed.
Origin of name
The name of the Keudelstein Castle and thus also the hilltop can be traced back to the von Keudel family . In 1341 a Reinard Keudel was mentioned, in 1381 an Appiln Koydeln as Burgman at the neighboring Stein Castle .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969 → online map
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^ Walter Hiekel, Frank Fritzlar, Andreas Nöllert and Werner Westhus: The natural spaces of Thuringia . Ed .: Thuringian State Institute for Environment and Geology (TLUG), Thuringian Ministry for Agriculture, Nature Conservation and Environment . 2004, ISSN 0863-2448 . → Natural area map of Thuringia (TLUG) - PDF; 260 kB → Maps by district (TLUG)
- ↑ Michael Köhler: Thuringian castles and fortified prehistoric and early historical living spaces , Jenzig-Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-910141-43-9 , p. 155
- ↑ Internet site of the community Lengenfeld
- ↑ Eichsfeldarchiv from: "Lengenfelder Echo", No. 10, 1959
- ↑ Erhard Müller: The place names of the district of Heiligenstadt. Heilbad Heiligenstadt 1989, p. 27
