Petersberg (Eisenach)
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 View from the fraternity monument to the Petersberg |
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| height | 344.2 m above sea level HN | |
| location | Eisenach in Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Creuzburg – Eisenacher Graben , West Thuringian mountain and hill country | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '23 " N , 10 ° 21' 21" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone | |
The Petersberg is a mountain in the east of the Wartburg city of Eisenach , in Thuringia .
topography
The Petersberg is a north-west-south-east oriented mountain ( 344.2 m above sea level ) consisting of shell limestone , it borders the Eisenach basin at the Creuzburg – Eisenacher Graben to the east, its eastern branch is the Hammelsberg ( 333.1 m above sea level). NN ).
The historical boundary of the city of Eisenach runs over the Petersberg. The corridor district adjacent to the north belonged to the Trenkelhof , the eastern corridor district was the district of the formerly independent municipality of Fischbach. The upper southern slope and the eastern part have been reforested since the 1920s through reforestation with pines and spruces. A prominent spur protrudes into the Hörseltal in front of the central southern slope , on which the Malittenburg is located ; the north side is partly pastureland, partly used by cherry plantations; the north-eastern part of the field belongs to the Hofferbertaue district of Eisenach .
history
Peterskirche and Alt-Eisenach
The field name Petersberg refers to a baptistery church of St. Peter built here in the High Middle Ages, which is considered the oldest church in the city of Eisenach and is associated with the missionary work of Boniface .
Archaeological finds during the construction of the Eisenacher Petersberg brewery on the north-western slope of the mountain covered a piece of masonry and possibly cut the northern edge of the settlement of Alt-Eisenach. When the Am Petersberg housing estate was built in the 1970s, further remains were recorded. According to local tradition, the Hellergasse at the foot of the Petersberg also belonged to the Alt-Eisenach location; a late medieval chapel is believed to be in the Katharinchen corridor .
Fischbach with the Malittenburg
The second settlement is the village of Fischbach on the southeast slope of the Petersberg as a street settlement. During the Thuringian War of Succession, aristocrats from the neighboring village of Stockhausen built the Malittenburg above the village in order to use it as a base for establishing their own territory. The attempt failed, after the end of the civil war-like fighting, the arbitrarily built castles of the lower nobility were destroyed. For centuries, the Petersberg was used as a pasture, on the southern slopes in steep slopes near the Malittenburg, wine was also grown.
Hofferbertaue
Immediately after the end of the First World War , Karl Hofferbert began his work in the Eisenach building authority. He tried honestly to alleviate the housing shortage that had arisen in the city and at the same time to reconcile urban planning development work. With the approval of the city administration, plans for a second city expansion, especially on the eastern and western periphery of the city, were developed and implemented. At his instigation, the Hofferbertaue was built as a residential area on the northern slope of the Petersberg.
During the Second World War, the Petersberg was the location of a military air space observation and reporting point. For this purpose, a concrete shelter was created in the rock near the summit. The location of a transmitter with a free-standing steel lattice tower has been located at the same location since the 1950s.
cards
- Topographic map 1:25 000: TK25 - sheet 5027 Eisenach Thuringian State Surveying Office, Erfurt 1994, ISBN 3-86140-047-2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
- ↑ Thuringian Land Surveying Office TK25 - sheet 5027 - Eisenach , Erfurt 1994, ISBN 3-86140-047-2
- ^ A b c Heinrich Weigel walks around Eisenach. Eisenach writings on local history booklet 7. Eisenach 1979
- ↑ Hans Patze , Peter Aufgebauer (Ed.): Handbook of the historical sites of Germany . Volume 9: Thuringia (= Kröner's pocket edition . Volume 313). 2nd, improved and supplemented edition. Kröner, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-31302-2 , pp. 88-90.
- ^ Geography of the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach. Part 2, edited by C. Kronfeld, Weimar, 1879, p. 54
- ^ Herlind Reiss: City of Eisenach. Villas and country houses at the foot of the Wartburg . In: Thuringian State Office for Monument Preservation and Archeology (Ed.): Monument topography BRD. Cultural monuments in Thuringia . tape 2.1 . E. Reinhold-Verlag, Altenburg 2006, p. 71 . ISBN 978-3-937940-24-3