Ohrsberg
| Ohrsberg | ||
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 The Ohrsberg from the south over the town center of Eberbach |
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| height | 236.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Eberbach , Baden-Wuerttemberg | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 28 '10 " N , 8 ° 59' 21" E | |
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| Type | Umlaufberg | |
| particularities | Ohrsberg tower , lost castle Ohrsberg | |
The Ohrsberg is an elevation in the city of Eberbach . The 236.1 m above sea level NHN high Umlaufberg of the Neckar in the Odenwald characterizes the Eberbach cityscape. On the summit are the remains of the Ohrsberg Castle and the Ohrsberg Tower .
history
The Ohrsberg was once connected to the Ledigsberg and the Böser Berg by a land bridge and was surrounded by a meander of the Neckar , which came from the south-east and drew a loop around the Ohrsberg to the north, then around a massif of Itterberg and Hungerbuckel . About 1.5 million years ago the Neckar first broke through the neck of the Hungerbuckel meander at a mirror height of around 170 meters above sea level, and then about 800,000 years ago at a mirror height of 160 meters above sea level the neck of the loop between Ohrsberg and Ledigsberg. West of the Ohrsberg the Itter looked for a new inlet into the changed Neckarstrom, east of the Ohrsberg a dry valley arose, which today is partly traversed by the Holderbach, which however flows in the opposite direction as the earlier Neckarstrom.
On the summit plateau of the ear Bergs is a double ring wall that actually the remains of a medieval castle Ohrberg is interpreted, but has so far only poorly understood, so nothing that over the appearance and function of the building in conjunction with the City of Eberbach and the nearby castle Eberbach say leaves.
The old town of Eberbach is located south of the Ohrsberg on the banks of the Neckar. Today, however, the Ohrsberg is completely surrounded by the urban development of Eberbach, which extends right up to its slopes on all sides. The Eberbach Jewish Cemetery, which was laid out in 1891 above the municipal cemetery, is on the southern slope of the Ohrsberg .
Today the Ohrsberg is almost completely forested. There is only a small cleared area on the summit plateau with the Ohrsberg tower and the base of an older pavilion. The slopes of the Ohrsberg were once partly cleared and used for agriculture. On one of the two tempera paintings by the painter JG Hermann from Falkengesäß from 1828, which are considered the oldest depictions of Eberbach, the lower slope areas of the Ohrsberg have been completely cleared and the western half of the hilltop is only loosely made of trees, while the eastern half of the hilltop is dense appears wooded. In one of the oldest photographs (before 1872), on the other hand, the western half of the mountain in particular is forested, while the eastern half of the mountain looks freshly cleared and only shows individual, free-standing trees. Today only terraces and remains of huts and property boundaries, especially on the east and south slopes, tell of the earlier cultivation of the mountain. Agricultural use is now limited to a few garden plots on the southwestern foothills.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Festschrift to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city of Eberbach in 1977 , Eberbach 1977, p. 50/51.
- ↑ Festschrift to celebrate the 750th anniversary of the city of Eberbach in 1977 , Eberbach 1977, pp. 60/61.
literature
- Michael Hahl: The mysterious heirs of river history - geology and landscape development of the Neckar valley near Eberbach . In: Eberbacher Geschichtsblatt 104 , Eberbach 2005, pp. 10–32.
