Kiekeberg
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 Memorial stone at the trigonometric point Vahrendorf of the European degree measurement from 1868 on the Kiekeberg |
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| height | 127.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | in Vahrendorf ; District of Harburg , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Harburger Hügelland ( Luheheide ) | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 26 '10 " N , 9 ° 53' 54" E | |
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The Kiekeberg in Vahrendorf in the district of Harburg in Lower Saxony is 127.1 m above sea level. NHN after the Lange Stein ( 129 m ) the second highest elevation of the Harburg hill country belonging to the Luheheide .
Geographical location
The Kiekeberg rises 1.6 km southeast of the border between Lower Saxony and Hamburg . Its summit is 600 m north-west of the Vahrendorfer town center, 850 m south-south-west of Ehestorf and 600 m east- south- east of Alvesen ; they are all districts of the municipality of Rosengarten . The summit of the Lange Stein is about 430 m to the southwest .
Parts of the protected landscape area Rosengarten-Kiekeberg-Stuvenwald are located on the Kiekeberg ( CDDA no. 323951; designated 1965; 58.688 km² ).
Natural allocation
The Kiekeberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Lüneburg Heath (No. 64) and in the main unit Luheheide (644) to the subunit Harburger Hügelland (644.0). To the northwest and west, the landscape turns into the Harburg Mountains, part of the Black Mountains (640.00) natural area .
history
The Kiekeberg was already a popular travel destination for day trippers and hikers during the imperial era . In the survey of was to end World War II in memory of Otto von Bismarck observation tower Bismarck tower , which was blown up in 1945 by German troops. The attractiveness of the Kiekeberg for day trippers remained. It offers various excursion destinations through the open-air museum on the Kiekeberg , the Gasthof Kiekeberg and the nearby Black Mountains Wildlife Park . Since 2003 a bus of the Hamburg transport association has been driving to Kiekeberg from Hamburg-Harburg .
Degree measurement
The triangulation point TP Vahrendorf 4/2525 became part of the European degree measurement under Johann Jacob Baeyer and was previously part of Heinrich Christian Schumacher's work as station Vahrendorf . He was visible from
- TP Baursberg ( Blankenese ),
- the station in 1732 of the Royal Prussian regional triangulation on the Wilseder Berg ,
- Litberg ,
- Steinhöhe (Hohe Geest, Ostheide ) and
- Havighorst .
Radio play version
- 1992: The giant on the Kiekeberg (legend from the Mark Brandenburg) - children's radio play by Carmen Blazejewski for Deutschlandsender Kultur .
- action
A giant has been sitting on a mountain for many years and “kieks” sleepily in the Brandenburg region. The miller and his daughter, whose mill is on that mountain, have got used to him. But suddenly the giant rages. He throws boulders, takes the sacks from the miller and forces a hiker to pour sand into the valley. What's wrong with the giant? A giantess has appeared on the opposite mountain and the giant wants to see her very quickly. But between the two mountains lies a large, deep bog. The giant wants to build a path to his loved one.
literature
- Willi Wegewitz : Around the Kiekeberg. Prehistory of a landscape on the Lower Elbe . Wachholtz Verlag , Neumünster 1988, ISBN 3-529-01356-0 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Sofie Meisel: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 57 Hamburg-Süd. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1964. → Online map (PDF; 4.4 MB)
- ↑ TP Vahrendorf 4/2525, Lower Saxony, Germany - German Trigonometric Points on Waymarking.com. In: waymarking.com. Retrieved January 6, 2018 .
- ↑ The giant on the Kiekeberg by Carmen Blazejewski. Deutschlandsender Kultur , accessed on February 22, 2018 .