Lichtenstein (Osterode am Harz)
| Lichtenstein | ||
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 View of the Lichtenstein from the northeast |
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| height | 260.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Osterode am Harz ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 43 '16 " N , 10 ° 10' 33" E | |
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| rock | Lower red sandstone , gypsum karst | |
| particularities | - Karst landscape - Lichtenstein castle ruins - Lichtenstein cave |
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The Lichtenstein is a 260.9 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the southwestern Harz foreland . It is located near Osterode am Harz in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony .
On the mountain, a formation of the Lower Buntsandstein , are the remains of Lichtenstein Castle , in which the Lichtenstein Cave extends .
geography
location
The Lichtenstein rises southwest of the Harz between Förste in the north, Osterode am Harz in the east-northeast, Ührde in the southeast and Dorste in the south-southwest; it belongs entirely to the Osteroder urban area, whose core city is 5.3 (as the crow flies ) east-northeast of the mountain summit. To the west past the mountain, the southwestern branch of which is the Badenhäuser Berg ( 221.6 m ), flows the Söse tributary Salza .
Natural allocation
The Lichtenstein belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Southwest Harz Foreland ( 376) and in the subunit Osterode-Herzberger Vorland (376.2) to the natural area Osteroder Buntsandsteinberge (376.22). Its north-west slope falls into the Sösetal natural area (376.20) and its north-eastern slope into the Osteroder Kalkberge natural area (376.21).
Protected areas and forest cover
The Lichtenstein lies in the nature reserve Gipskarstlandschaft near Ührde ( CDDA -Nr. 378085; designated 2007; 7.05 km² in size) and in the fauna-flora-habitat- area Gipskarstlandschaft near Ührde (FFH-Nr. 4226-301; 13.27 km²) .
In the 15th century the Lichtenstein was mainly forested with beeches, as well as with a few hornbeams, quivering poplars and willow trees. At the moment there is also dense forest.
Lichtenstein Castle, Lichtenstein Cave and quarry
On the Lichtenstein there are remains of Lichtenstein Castle, which was built before 1404 . The castle hill as well as remnants of the moat and the curtain wall are still present. In 1972 the 115 m long Lichtenstein Cave was discovered in the north-northwest flank of the mountain , in which remains of people from the late Bronze Age were discovered. Gypsum is extracted from a quarry on the eastern slope of the mountain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Jürgen Hövermann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- ↑ Palynological studies on the history of the environment and settlement in the southwestern Harz foreland (including geochemical findings) , dissertation to obtain the doctoral degree of the mathematical and natural science faculties of the Georg-August University of Göttingen, by Ina Begemann, Göttingen 2003, p. 43, ( PDF; 2.90 MB)