Monument Mountain
| Monument Mountain | ||
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 2000/01 rebuilt observation tower on Monumentberg |
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| height | 293.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | High Dubrau | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 15 '24 " N , 14 ° 42' 16" E | |
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| particularities | Observation tower | |
The Monumentberg is 293.4 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in Saxony . The mountain is located near Groß Radisch in Upper Lusatia .
history
In 1801 a monument was erected on the summit in memory of Johann Carl Adolf von Nostitz (1743–1800), Prime Lieutenant in the Electoral Saxon army since 1774, captain from 1786 and major from 1793. Therefore, the mountain was initially called Nostitzhöhe . After the memory of von Nostitz declined, the name Monumentberg , which today bears the height, became established.
As station no. 2 Nostitzhöhe , Monumentberg was a first-order station in the royal Saxon triangulation in the 1860s . For this reason, a surveying column was erected on the summit.
In 1994 the Nostitz monument was restored by the municipality and a 25-meter-high observation tower and a restaurant were built on the summit between 2000 and 2001.
geology
The Monumentberg belongs to the Hohen Dubrau ridge , which runs north of Groß Radisch for about four kilometers to the southern edge of the Upper Lusatian heath and pond area. This ridge drops steeply to the north, while it tapers flat to the south. The rock that builds up the mountain is so-called Dubrau quartzite, a gray and fine-grained quartzite that builds up on old greywacke from the Precambrian . Reddish sandstones, conglomerate quartzites and quartzitic slates occur occasionally .
