Mellenberg (mountain)
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.jpg) The Mellenberg |
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| height | 63.3 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Hamburg , ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 38 '20 " N , 10 ° 10' 38" E | |
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 Photo of the Mell (en) mountain from 1901 with a lookout tower |
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The Mellenberg in the Hamburg district of Volksdorf is 63.3 m above sea level. NN (according to the official city map of Hamburg 1: 20,000 and the topographic map 1: 25,000, in the German basic map 1: 5,000 only 63 m above sea level ) the highest natural elevation in the Wandsbek district and in the entire north of Hamburg. It has a round shape, which rises around twelve meters above the surrounding area, and is a soft ice age set end moraine that originated in the fork between the Volksdorf and the Meiendorfer glacier tongue. It has been designated as a geotope by the Hamburg State Geological Office .
The mountain lies at the east end of the Volksdorf forest and is lined with trees. It can be reached via some hiking trails. In the 20th century an observation tower was built on the mountain, which no longer exists today. In addition, a terracotta monument was erected on Mellenberg in 1925, which named the 48 people from Volksdorf who fell in World War I. however, it was destroyed in 1945.
Three streets are named after the mountain: Mellenbergweg in 1903, Mellenbergstieg in 1950 and Mellenbergkamp in 1986, all of which are in the immediate vicinity.
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- ↑ Digital Atlas North
- ↑ Geoportal on Geo-Online Hamburg
- ↑ Hamburg Authority for Urban Development and Environment: Mellenberg on hamburg.de, accessed on December 13, 2015
- ↑ Josef Nyary: Mellenberg: Camping Site of the Stone Age Hunters In: Hamburger Abendblatt from October 9, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2015
- ↑ Horst Beckershaus: The Hamburg street names - Where they come from and what they mean , 6th edition, CEP European Publishing House, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-86393-009-7