Monte Schlacko (Siegen)
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 View from Hüttentalstraße (HTS) near the Siegen- Geisweid junction northeast to Monte Schlacko (2005) |
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| height | 373.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Siegen - Geisweid , Siegen-Wittgenstein District , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 '36 " N , 8 ° 1' 13" E | |
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 View from Siegberg to Sieghütte and Weidenau to the north along the B 54 / HTS - with Monte Schlacko (right; 2005) |
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The Monte Schlacko , also popularly known as Fujijama (cf. Fujiyama ), is 373.8 m above sea level. NHN high and located in the Siegen district Geisweid , the cityscape defining elevation. It is an artificially heaped slag dump from the former Bremer Hütte from 1900 . The term "Monte Schlacko" is popularly used and refers to the conical shape of the mountain. Unofficially, the heap is considered the highest “mountain” in Siegen and a symbol of Geisweid.
There are other similarly high slag heaps between Siegen-Geisweid and Kreuztal , but these are less prominent and not so easily visible from a distance.
geography
location
Monte Schlacko is located north of the city center of Siegen in the district of Geisweid. To the east, the landscape leads through the boundary of the Weidenau district, which extends as far as the heap with the University of Siegen, over to Sieg , into which the Ferndorfbach , flowing in the west, flows 1.8 km south of the heap . In the north, beyond the quarries, the valley of the Setze joins the Ferndorfbach .
At Gerhardt-Hauptmann-Weg, a residential street in Weidenau, a path begins that leads to the summit of Monte Schlacko; A wide path meets this in the forest of the Halde, which forms the extension of the Haardter-Berg-Straße starting at Haardter Berg ( 380 m ) .
Natural allocation
The Monte Schlacko belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Siegerland (331) and in the subunit North Siegerland Bergland (331.0) to the natural area Northern Siegener Bergland (331.01). To the west, south and east the landscape slopes down into the Siegener Kessel (331.03) natural area .
history
While the Bremer Hütte was in operation, the slag was transported away from the blast furnaces by means of a cable car and dumped on a dump on the slope of Haardter Berg. Over the course of decades, Monte Schlacko, about 550 m to the southwest, grew to its present size. A few iron pillars belonging to the cable car are still there today as remains on the summit region.
nature
Protected areas
On the Monte Schlacko there are parts of the nature reserve (NSG) Schlackenhalde Monte Schlacko ( CDDA no. 389890; designated 2008; 13.03 hectares in size). The NSG is connected to the north, west and south of parts of the Siegen landscape protection area (CDDA no. 390075; 2008; 75.9459 km² ).
Controversy: Monument Protection
In November 2012, the city of Siegen placed Monte Schlacko under monument protection. In May 2014, this was overturned due to a successful lawsuit by Deutsche Edelstahlwerke on the grounds that the heap was not a structural system that had been created with a planned intention and that it also had an economic value for the company.
fauna and Flora
Some rare animals live on the wooded north side of Monte Schlacko due to the heavy metal content of the soil. Rare plants also thrive there. This is why this heap part also belongs to the nature reserve Schlackenhalde Monte Schlacko (see section Protected Areas ). Otherwise, due to the nutrient-poor, heavy-metal-rich soil, the dump shows only sparse or no vegetation at all. As a result, an attempt was made from 1977 to irrigate and green the south side via a circular pipeline . The intended success of this 500,000 DM measure did not materialize.
Others
As part of the “Art Summer” campaign , the Monte Schlacko was temporarily given the word DHOLLYWOO on August 23, 2010 by the Siegen artist Andrea Freiberg with the help of 400 steel nails . Actually, as in Hollywood near Los Angeles, the words "HOLLYWOOD" should be on the mountain. While the letters were being applied, however, it turned out that the last letter had been covered by bushes. Without further ado, the artist decided to simply put the “D” at the beginning as part of the “artistic freedom”. This is how “HOLLYWOOD” became “DHOLLYWOO”. The largest letter, the "W" , was 2.80 m wide and 3.85 m high. This campaign was sponsored by Deutsche Edelstahlwerke Specialty Steel , on whose company site the dump is located.
In 2012, Monte Schlacko was the focus of an advertising campaign by the FOM University with the title “Siegen offers more than Monte Schlacko!”.
In a night and fog action, the word "KLAFELD" was placed on Monte Schlacko in December 2017. The construction is 9.6 m wide and 1.54 m high and is intended to draw attention to the part of the city, which many believe has been neglected in recent years. Three weeks later, on the night of January 12th to 13th, the lettering was damaged by strangers. Letters were stolen or damaged in such a way that only the word "KAFF" can be read. Due to vandalism and security concerns, among other things, Deutsche Edelstahlwerke requested the “The Klafeld Project” initiative to completely remove the lettering on their premises by January 31, 2018 at the latest.
literature
- Kristian Kosch: The Monte Schlacko, the Gray Eminence of the Hüttental. Wind pressure Eiserfeld, 2007 (available from the Siegen city archive).
Web links
- Photos during the art summer , on 23hq.com
- The Monte Schlacko , from June 20, 2011, accessed on July 20, 2012, on derwesten.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ Ascetic gymnasts had to give way to chickens , from February 19, 2010, on derwesten.de
- ^ "Schlackenhalde Monte Schlacko" nature reserve (SI-105) in the specialist information system of the State Office for Nature, Environment and Consumer Protection in North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on March 10, 2017.
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Can a slag dump be a monument? Dispute over the “Monte Schlacko”… ( Memento from May 24, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), from May 10, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2015, on das-baudenkmal.tv
- ↑ The court ruled - Monte Schlacko is not a memorial , from May 16, 2014, accessed on May 24, 2015, on derwesten.de
- ↑ In dialogue with the mountain. In: Siegener Zeitung. Archived from the original on August 28, 2010 ; Retrieved August 26, 2010 .
- ↑ Siegen offers more than Monte Schlacko! , Continuous text excerpt from current news , advertising campaign of the FOM University , from February 15, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2012
- ↑ Siegener Zeitung: “Klafeld” now clearly visible. December 27, 2017, accessed December 30, 2017 .
- ↑ Siegen newspaper: "KLAFELD" must be dismantled. In: Siegener Zeitung. Siegener Zeitung, January 22, 2018, accessed on January 26, 2018 .