Limberg (Teutoburg Forest)
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 Forest path on the summit of Limberg, December 2007 |
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| height | 194.3 m above sea level NN | |
| location | District of Osnabrück | |
| Mountains | Teutoburg Forest | |
| Coordinates | 52 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ N , 8 ° 6 ′ 5 ″ E | |
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| rock | Sandstone | |
| Normal way | trail | |
| particularities | formerly mining of Wealden coal | |
The Limberg is 194.3 m above sea level. NN high mountain in the district of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony (Germany). It belongs partly to the area of the city of Bad Iburg , partly to the municipality of Hilter am Teutoburg Forest .
The Zeppelin LZ 7 “Germany” crashed on Limberg in 1910 , a memorial stone at the crash site reminds of this.
location
The Limberg is part of the Teutoburg Forest . To the south lies the Große Freeden ( 269 m above sea level ), southwest of the Kleine Freeden ( 200 m above sea level ), and southeast of the Hohnsberg ( 241.9 m above sea level ).
The Limberg is accessible from Bad Iburg through the partly unpaved road "Zum Limberg", which is not open to public traffic. It leads from Osnabrücker Straße, a section of Bundesstraße 51 , to the east. From Wellendorf, part of the Hilter community, a road called “Zum Limberg” also leads west to the mountain. District road 333 runs along the mountain north of Limberg. "Am Limberg" is the name of a street in the Oesede Monastery district of Georgsmarienhütte , which leads from the northeast to the mountain.
geology
Together with the 213 m above sea level to the west . NN high Urberg and the Hohnsberg, the Limberg is part of the so-called Second Teutoburg Forest Ridge made of sandstone from the Lower Cretaceous , the Osning sandstone .
history
The Limberg was not very accessible until the 20th century. It is densely forested, for the most part with coniferous forest that is used for forestry . With the exception of a traditional restaurant in the vicinity of the memorial stone reminding of the Zeppelin crash, the so-called Zeppelin Stone , the mountain is not inhabited. It was not made accessible until the 20th century through signposted hiking trails.
Coal mine
Coal mining was practiced on Limberg in the 19th century . There was a colliery , the Karlsstollen, near the place where the Zeppelin crashed. Here, from 1874 to 1903, Wealden coal was mined on the Hilterberg field . Around 9,000 tons of coal were extracted from underground construction shafts each year. The tunnel was 920 meters long; the levels were between 75 and 105 meters and 155 meters deep. In the area, spoil heaps and air shafts can still be made out; In addition, the castor of a cable car has been preserved.
Zeppelin crash
On June 28, 1910s Limberg plunged the transport airship LZ 7 , the seventh in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance built Zeppelin decreases. It had started in Düsseldorf that morning on a pleasure trip to advertise passenger transport with zeppelins. The Deutsche Luftschiffahrts-Aktiengesellschaft , based in Frankfurt am Main , invited journalists, including from abroad. The zeppelin struggled with an engine failure and got into a severe storm with storm and snowfall in the Teutoburg Forest. Shortly after 5 p.m. another engine failed; the zeppelin lost altitude rapidly and fell into the coniferous forest. It got stuck in the branches eight meters above the ground. People were not harmed. The accident attracted a lot of attention at home and abroad due to extensive media coverage.
1911 at the accident site presented the Teutoburg Forest Mountain Club on a memorial stone, consisting of a large boulder of granite . The bronze plaque on it, created by the Osnabrück sculptor Heinrich Wulfertage (1854–1924), bears the portrait of Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin and the inscription:
"The first airship Z 7 'Germany' was stranded here, covered in snow in a storm on June 28, 1910 - nevertheless forward -"
The event remained in the collective memory of the population and was passed on from generation to generation. Heinrich Künne from Bad Iburg described in Iburger Platt what his father told him about the accident: “I still weet like van Daage, siär use cardboard, os ik de mighty cigars in awe of the Friär för de gloomy clouds in the air seug. Up eenmol sackede he nau unnen weg and you couldn't see anything else - Et duerde garnich long do germinate de Lüe met Fahrriäer, met Piärd and Wagen un also to Foote, and se röpen: 'De Zeppelin is unnergaun, do buorben up' n Limbiärge mot he liggen '".
From Bad Iburg there are regular guided hikes that lead past the Zeppelinstein .
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Westphalian memorial stones also remind of the history of aviation" , report by Christian Hoebel, Heimatpflege in Westfalen , 20th year, issue 6/2007, pp. 21-23. ( PDF file; 3.3 MB)
- ↑ Geology and mining of natural resources in Bad Iburg - geology. Retrieved December 14, 2018 .
- ↑ a b Geology and the mining of mineral resources in the area of today's city of Bad Iburg ( Memento from February 10, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) on www.geo-iburg.de
- ↑ Photos of the coal mine with coordinates ( memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
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↑ "I still remember how today," said our father, when I saw the mighty cigar standing in the air at an angle above the Freden in front of the dark clouds. All of a sudden it sagged and you couldn't see anything. - It didn't take long, then people came with bicycles, with horse and cart and on foot, and they shouted: 'The zeppelin has crashed, it must be up there on the Limberg.' "
Heinz Künne: Worüm ligg de graute Steen up'n Limbiärge? In: Nevertheless forward - memory of the stranding of the airship LZ VII Germany , documentation of the city of Bad Iburg, Bad Iburg 1980, p. 50.