Kottmar
| Kottmar | ||
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 Source of the Spree at Kottmar |
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| height | 583 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Lusatian highlands | |
| Dominance | 16.3 km → Weberberg (Lausitzer Gebirge) | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 '38 " N , 14 ° 39' 22" E | |
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| Type | extinct stratovolcano | |
| rock | Phonolite | |
| particularities | Kottmarturm ( AT ) | |
The Kottmar is a mountain in the Lusatian Bergland in the district of Görlitz with a height of 583 m above sea level. NHN . Like the Schlechteberg in Ebersbach and the Löbauer Berg, which is in the immediate vicinity, the mountain is an extinct volcano of tertiary volcanism. It consists of phonolite (Klingstein), a volcanic cast stone .
history
On March 16, 1311 the town of Löbau bought the Kottmarberg for 80 marks silver from the Margrave of Brandenburg. As a result of the Upper Lusatian Pönfall in 1547, the city had to give up the Kottmar, but was able to buy it back later. To prevent wood theft, the Löbauer councilors had a forester's house built on Kottmar in 1662. In the following years a settlement was built there, which was only established in 1691 by the Saxon Elector Johann Georg III. was approved.
Location and surroundings
To the north-west of the mountain is the name-related place Kottmarsdorf , to the west of Ebersbach-Neugersdorf and to the south-west of the Kottmarhang is the place Walddorf, which was approved by the electorate in 1691 . Ruppersdorf is to the east . On the mountain is the Kottmarturm , built in 1881 , a 15.5 m high observation tower (closed), a restaurant (no longer open) and the Kottmarschanzen . At the foot of the mountain rises one of the three sources of the Spree as well as the Cunnersdorfer water and the bleaching water . Both drain over the Spree into the North Sea , while the Petersbach , which also rises on the Kottmar, flows its water into the Baltic Sea over the Lusatian Neisse and Oder . The Kottmar is thus part of the Upper Lusatian watershed .
Kottmargemeinde
On January 1, 2013, the community of Kottmar with around 8,000 inhabitants emerged from the communities of Eibau with Walddorf, Neueibau and Kottmarhäuser, Obercunnersdorf with Kottmarsdorf and Niedercunnersdorf with Ottenhain, which ring around the mountain Kottmar .
Winter sports
The Kottmarschanzen have existed since the 1960s and were built by winter sports enthusiasts and volunteers themselves. At first, the area around the Kottmarschanzen was the training area of the BSG Lautex Neugersdorf. After the political change in 1989, the Kottmar Ski Club was founded and renovated the facilities in 2004.
Say
According to a legend, it was the Sorbian midday goddess Mara, from whom the name of the mountain is derived. According to another legend, it was the god Mars who is said to have been worshiped on the summit and so gave the mountain its name. Another legend tells of a magician who hid a count's daughter in a cave in a crystal coffin. Other legends deal with a former Sorbian castle on the mountain ridge; a gold cellar that only opened on Midsummer Night; from a Kottmarelfe on Goldborn; by Pan Dietrich and the " Wild Hunt "; of a hermit who converted people to Christianity , and of the devil who found the mountain too bleak for himself to live in and moved on. Another legend tells that the giant Sprejnik, as ruler of the Bautzener Land , once fired arrows into the Upper Lusatian highlands with his strong bow . An arrow got stuck in the soil of the Kottmar and water gushed out when it was pulled out - today's Spree spring on the mountain was born. At Kottmar there is a hiking trail with explanatory boards and installations on 10 legends.
Transmitter
For a long time, the Kottmar carried a television converter to supply the surrounding communities, especially Eibaus, which is shadowed by the mountain from the Löbau transmitter. It was shut down without replacement in the summer of 2007 after decades of operation.
gallery
Kottmar viewed from Ebersbach
Kottmar in profile
View from the Kottmarschanzen in north direction
View of the source of the Spree
Granite slab with the course of the Spree, at the source of the Spree
Observation tower
literature
- Theodor Schütze (Ed.): Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.
- Alfred Moschkau : Löbau and its surroundings - a guide through this old four-city, on the Löbauer Berg, Cottmar, Rothstein, Sonneberg, Horken and in the Scala , Verlag Petzold, Dresden 1872 ( digitized )
- Gustav Hermann Schulze : The Kottmar: for the best of the Kottmarturm . Löbau: Verlag des Gebirgsverein Lusatia 1882
Web links
Individual evidence
- Löbauer Heimatblätter, on the history of Walddorf by Otto Staudinger
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Lookout towers - Kottmar on tuerme.signmax.de
- ↑ Oberlausitzer Heimatzeitung, 1921, Otto Schöne, "Der Kottmar und seine Sagen"