Lemberg (Swabian Alb)
| Lviv | ||
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 The Lemberg as seen from Wilflingen |
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| height | 1015.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | District of Tuttlingen , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Swabian Alb | |
| Dominance | 35.6 km → Kesselberg | |
| Notch height | 330 m ↓ northwest of Dürbheimer Moos , near Balgheim | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 9 '3 " N , 8 ° 44' 56" E | |
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| Type | Zeugenberg | |
| rock | White Jura | |
| particularities | highest mountain in the Swabian Alb , Lembergturm ( AT ) | |
The Lemberg is the 1015.7 m above sea level. NHN highest mountain in the Swabian Alb in Baden-Württemberg .
It is located on the western edge of the Alb, east of Rottweil in the Tuttlingen district near the municipality of Gosheim . On the summit of the mountain is the Lembergturm , a 33 m high steel scaffolding tower (platform height 30 m) of the Swabian Alb Association , which offers a beautiful view over the surrounding trees, in clear weather as far as the Alps . Lviv is part of the region of tens of thousands .
prehistory
Like many mountains in the region, Lemberg is a witness mountain . Its name is of Celtic origin. The Celtic prefix "lem" means something like swamp or marsh. This name probably arose because the Lower Bära rises at the foot of the mountain , which possibly poured significantly more water in prehistoric times and swamped the surrounding area.
During the Hallstatt period (8th – 5th centuries BC) there was a Celtic settlement on the Lemberg. Even today, if you look closely, you can see walls and ditches of a fortification on the summit. The summit plateau was terraced in the east and west. Further remains of Celtic origin can also be found on the immediately neighboring mountains and on the entire Großer Heuberg .
Lembergturm
As early as 1890 there were plans to build a wooden tower on the Lemberg or its neighbor, the Oberhohenberg . The historical significance and the easy ascent spoke in favor of the Oberhohenberg, but the decision to build it ultimately fell in favor of the Lembergs - mainly because it is the highest mountain in the Swabian Alb . In 1894, an engineer and two master craftsmen visited the site for the first time. But because there was not enough money, the construction was delayed further. In 1897 the previous plans were dropped; they were now discussing the construction of a stone or iron tower. Since the stone construction was estimated at an impressive 24,000 marks, it was decided to go for the much cheaper iron construction. The company Ph. Ant. Fauler from Freiburg was commissioned. Most of the funds came from a large-scale fundraising campaign.
The foundations were laid during Easter week of 1899. On Whit Monday, twelve workers began erecting the tower. Good weather favored the work, so that construction was completed on June 17, 1899. 23 tons of iron were used; the cost estimate of 10,000 marks was not exceeded. The ascent to the tower is via 152 steps, spread over twelve open floors. The viewing platform is 30 meters above the ground; with the flagpole on top, the tower is 34 meters high.
Since construction, an expensive major renovation has been pending about every 25 years . Especially after the First World War , during which the tower was of no importance, as in the Second World War, the idea of demolition was toyed with in order to save the expenses for its renovation. However, the proposal did not find enough supporters. The tower was last closed for a long time in 1973 and 1999 (?), During which it was renovated by volunteers and Gosheim craftsmen.
In the mid-1980s, the then telecommunications office in Rottweil installed two directional radio antennas on the Lembergturm for a radio link between the telecommunications building in Rottweil and the telephone exchange in Gosheimer Bahnhofsstraße. This radio link, which could not have been set up directly, supplemented the existing telephone cable connections. After the copper cables were increasingly replaced by fiber optic cables , the radio connection became increasingly unnecessary and in 2005 the antennas were dismantled.
The system used passive directional radio redirection because there was and is no power connection at the Lembergturm. For this reason, apart from this system, the tower never had any additional antennas.
view
On a clear day, the view extends in the south to the Alps, the northern edge of which can be followed from the Zugspitze to the Bernese Alps and, in rare cases, to Mont Blanc . The Black Forest extends to the west , the highest points of which are Feldberg in the southwest and Hornisgrinde in the northwest. In the immediate vicinity you can see the northern edge of the Swabian Alb up to Hohenzollern Castle , in the north the area of the upper Neckar up to the Keuperhöhen of the Schönbuch , with a very good view even the Stuttgart TV tower . Days with good visibility are more common in autumn and winter than in spring and summer.
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Ascent
The Lemberg can be climbed on marked hiking trails. The Swabian Alb North Edge Trail, the main hiking trail 1 of the Swabian Alb Association, and the Donaubergland Trail lead over the summit. From the nearest hiking car park , one kilometer north of Gosheim, the summit can be reached in three quarters of an hour on a distance of 900 meters, on which about 144 meters of altitude have to be overcome.
The summit can be reached from Wilflingen in around one and a half hours, and you have to climb almost 400 meters in altitude this way. It first leads through well-developed gravel forest paths between fields and into the forest. After about an hour and an altitude of 270 meters you leave the forest paths, the last half hour of the ascent you go on a narrow, steeply uphill hiking trail.
Starting from Wehingen , the Lemberg can be hiked on the Donauberglandweg for about four kilometers.
Refuge
On the summit of the Lemberg there is a refuge of the Swabian Alb Association below the tower .
The first refuge was inaugurated on June 21, 1901. It had a footprint of 6 × 3.5 meters and was a log house made of round wood, resting on a concrete foundation and a wall base . Their construction costs were 800 marks.
A small dining room is housed in today's refuge. On days when it is cultivated, the German flag is raised on the Lembergturm, which is visible from afar . The hut keeper opens on any day by arrangement.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ South- east summit of the Kesselberg ( ⊙ ) south-west of St. Georgen (information according to distance measurement in BfN map)
- ↑ Lembergturm near Gosheim, Tuttlingen district , at the Swabian Albverein, on albverein.net
- ↑ schwäbische.de , accessed on April 28, 2013