Pfaffenhain (Rothaar Mountains)
| Pfaffenhain | ||
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| height | 653.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Lützel ; District of Siegen-Wittgenstein , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) |
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| Mountains | Lützeler Pass / Rüsper Rothaar , Rothaar Mountains | |
| Dominance | 4.2 km → Colonel Henn | |
| Notch height | 77.2 m ↓ between Hüttenberg and Buchhelle to the belt | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '25 " N , 8 ° 10' 0" E | |
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| particularities | Location of the Gillerturm observation tower and KulturPur festival | |
The Pfaffenhain near Lützel in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district , North Rhine-Westphalia , is 658.5 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge . It is one of the highest mountains in the old district of Siegen , especially its 653.7 m high west summit Giller with the Gillerturm , which is only 560 m away at a notch at 635.5.
geography
location
The Pfaffenhain is located in the southern part of the Rothaar Mountains and the Sauerland-Rothaar Mountains Nature Park in the urban area of Hilchenbach and is part of the Siegerland . Its peak rises around 700 m northwest of the center of the village and south-eastern district of Lützel , to which it belongs. A good 2 km west of the summit, the village of Grund is located in the south-southeastern part of the city .
Natural allocation
The Pfaffenhain is located in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) in the natural area Lützeler Pass (333.13), which belongs to the sub-unit Wittgensteiner Kammer (333.1) in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) . Regardless of this, from an orographic point of view, it is the southernmost mountain of the Rüsper Rothaar .
Watershed and rivers
A section of the elongated Rhine-Weser watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Rhine in the west and the Weser in the east, runs over the Giller : the 2.3 km long Alte Netphe rises a little to the southwest of the Giller as a northern Netphe tributary, some west of the 5th , 1 km long Insbach as the eastern Ferndorfbach tributary. The water of both streams flows over the Sieg into the Rhine. The 2.1 km long Kleine Wehbach rises on the northwest flank of the Giller as a western tributary of the northwestern Eder tributary Wehbach (also called Wähbach ; the stream name is derived from the Wegebach settlement formerly located on the Giller ; 5.95 km long) and on his East flank within Lützel is the 2.1 km long Lützelbach , which flows eastwards from the village and is one of the first western tributaries of the Eder. The water of the last mentioned brooks flows into the Weser via Eder and Fulda .
Mountain description
The otherwise wooded Giller has a clearing in the summit area . The 15 m high Gillerturm observation tower has stood there since 1892 , from which there is a 668 m view of the Siegerland , Sauerland and Wittgensteiner Lands .
The Ginsberger Heide stretches northwest of the Giller Kuppe ; the Kleine Wehbach rises in it . Directly to the west of it is the Gillerheim , a kind of forest school home and youth hostel , where schoolchildren can learn more about the plants and animals of the Rothaargebirge. Affiliated is the Gillersportplatz and a little to the north is the Ginsberg farm .
The Hilchenbach-Lützel ski area is located on the common mountain flank of Giller and the neighboring Pfaffenhain to the northeast ( 658.2 m ), down in the direction of Kleiner Wehbach . In addition to the ski lift and piste, it also has cross-country skiing trails. Up until 2012 there was also a large ski jump and a youth hill at the same time.
Protected areas
The Giller is located in the Rothaargebirge landscape protection area (Siegen-Wittgenstein district) ( CDDA no. 555550027), which is 299.42 km² in size; to the south, in the direction of the Netphen district of Sohlbach , the LSG community of Netphen (CDDA no. 321048; 1987; 117.6 km²) joins. The fauna-flora-habitat area Rothaarkamm and Wiesentäler (FFH No. 5015-301; 34.46 km²) and the nature reserve Rothaarkamm and Wiesentäler (CDDA No. 329599; 1930; 11.74 km² ) extend around the mountain ) with the Ginsberger Heide .
Events
On the Gillersportplatz , the Gillerbergturnfest takes place once a year since 1907, the largest mountain gymnastics festival in the German-speaking region with competitions for example from the sports of running, jumping and throwing, and since 1991 the KulturPur festival with artists from the fields of music and comedy.
Traffic and walking
About 1.050 m (linear) west-southwest of Giller summit is situated on the natural monument Crown oak to about 550 m altitude, the junction of the national road 508 , of Kreuztal standing to close Luetzel oak leads, in the national road 62 that there in the section Afholderbach extends -Lützel. The B 62 leads from the junction of the B 508 along the west to south slopes of the Gillerberg. For over 30 years, these mountain slopes have been sliding down several hundred meters in the direction of the village of Sohlbach in the upper Netphetal. Therefore, since 2014, extensive road construction measures with significant interventions in the local landscape have been carried out in order to maintain the important road connection between Siegen and Bad Berleburg . Plans that also enable tunnel solutions through the Gillerberg for an improved federal road and thus simplification of traffic have not yet been structurally implemented. In the past, the road served as a connection between the old district of Siegen and the district town of Siegen and the old district of Wittgenstein with the district town of Berleburg.
South past the Giller runs roughly in a west-east direction along the B 62, the Kreuztal – Cölbe railway line , which runs just 40 m southwest of the federal road junction below the B 62 through the 213 m long Kronprinz-Eiche tunnel and a little south of Lützel is bridged by the Eisenstrasse des Rothaargebirge ( Landesstrasse 722), which branches off from the B 62 at 578 m .
For example, starting on the two main roads or in Lützel, which is located on the mountain, you can hike the mountain on forest paths and trails. To the north-west of the village, about 200 m north-northeast of the mountain summit, at about 637 m altitude, is the Giller hiker's car park , which can be reached by driving a little uphill on the Gillerbergstrasse branching off the B 62 in the village . The Rothaarsteig , a hiking trail mainly on the main ridge of the Rothaargebirge ( Rothaarkamm ), leads over the mountain .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
- ↑ Heinz Fischer: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 124 Siegen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1972. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- ↑ Article Schanze am Giller is history on siegener-zeitung.de; According to nrw-pressemmeldung.de ( memento of the original from April 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated May 11, 2012
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
