Lerchenberg (Eibau)
| Lerchenberg | ||
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| height | 466.6 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Free State of Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Eastern Upper Lusatia | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 59 '14 " N , 14 ° 38' 18" E | |
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| rock | basalt | |
The Lerchenberg , ( 467 m ) is an elevation on the Neugersdorf loess ridge in eastern Upper Lusatia . It consists of two peaks and lies in the Eibau district of the Kottmar community .
location
The Lerchenberg is surrounded in the north by the Löbauer Wiese , the Hübelhäusern and Walddorf , in the east by Eibau, in the south by Neueibau , in the southwest by Hetzwalde and Neugersdorf and in the west by Oberland. In the east and north, the Oberoderwitz – Wilthen railway line runs around the mountain, and Eibau station is at the eastern foot .
The mountain is part of the North Sea-Baltic watershed , which stretches from the Kottmar ( 583 m ) to the southwest to the Hübel ( 415 m ), from there to the southeast over the western tip of the Lerchenberg ( 451 m ) and finally back to the southwest over the Beerberg ( 427 m ) up to Hutungsberg ( 474 m ). Landwasser flows around the Lerchenberg ridge to the north and east, and Leutersdorfer Wasser to the south , both of which drain to the Mandau . One eighth of its circumference to the west belongs to the catchment area of the Spree .
The Kottmar rises to the north, the Beckenberg ( 408 m ) to the east, the Beerberg to the southwest and the Schlechteberg ( 485 m ) to the northwest .
description
The Lerchenberg is a double peak, consisting of the wooded main knoll ( 467 m ) and the unforested west knoll ( 451 m ). At the southern foot of the main crest, on the road from the Cameroon industrial park to Eibau, lies the fireclay pond. To the south in front of the Lerchenberg is the chamotte ( 427 m ). To the south and south-east, the mountain offers a wide view of the Mandau catchment area.
geology
The basalt stem of the mountain is composed of nepheline basanite, which is the leading hornblende. Both peaks consist of weathered soils rich in coarse material. The up to 6 m thick clay store at the south foot consists of sandy Ice Age boulder clay interspersed with various rocks and fossils, which was mined by the Eibauer brickworks and later the Eibau chamotte factory. The former clay pit is the fireclay pond.
history
The Lerchenberg used to be part of an extensive forest area that stretched across the corridors of today's town of Neugersdorf to the Hutungsberg and served as a place of refuge for the residents of Eibau during the Thirty Years' War. After 1790, the Zittau council had the Lerchenberg, which belonged to its Eibau estate, cut down and converted into arable land. The eastern knoll, unsuitable for farming, was reforested in 1835.
Surname
The name of the mountain is probably derived from the earlier larch vegetation ; further tree-derived field names such as Lindeberg, Fichtelberg and Buchberg have been preserved in the former forest area. In the leaflet of 1805 the mountain is called "Lehrberg" or "Lerchenberg". In the Upper Lusatian dialect it is called "Lbareng" or "Lurbarg".
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 25th edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971.