Horse heads (passport)
| Horse heads | |||
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 Pass height |
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| Compass direction | North | south | |
| Pass height | 361 m above sea level NN | ||
| state |
Mansfeld-Südharz district , Saxony-Anhalt , Germany |
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| Watershed | Brumbach → Wipper → Saale | Gönna → Helmets → Unstrut → Saale | |
| Valley locations | Wippra | Grillenberg | |
| expansion | State road 230 | ||
| Mountains | Resin (lower resin) | ||
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| Ø pitch | 2.7% (115 m / 4.2 km) | 2.9% (149 m / 5.1 km) | |
| Max. Incline | 3% | ||
| Map (Saxony-Anhalt) | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 33 '4 " N , 11 ° 18' 3" E | ||
The horse heads in the Harz are about 361 m above sea level. NN high mountain pass of the state road 230 between Wippra and Grillenberg in the district of Mansfeld-Südharz in Saxony-Anhalt . An old coal road crosses here, which used to be used to transport charcoal to the Mansfeld copper smelters and which is now used as a forest path.
Geographical location
The pass is located in Horseheads Unterharz in Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park between Wippra in the north-northwest and Grillenberg in the south-southeast. It is located on Landesstraße 230, which runs between these two Sangerhausen districts. It is on the watershed between the Saale tributaries Brumbach (rises near the Brumbach desert ) in the north and Gönna (rises near the pass) in the south.
Quarry
There is a disused quarry at the horses' heads , in which green slate was mined until around 1960 , mainly for road construction. In the vicinity of the quarry is one of the geodetic points that were set in the 1960s to observe the Harz uplift.
Meilerplatz on the Kohlenstrasse
About 650 m west-southwest of the pass in the forest on the coal road , which was experimentally paved with soaked beech wood in 1926 , next to a fork in the path ( 384.7 m above sea level ) there is a Meilerplatz ( ⊙ ), which was listed as no.210 until 2016 System of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin was included. There you will find charcoal burner huts and charcoal piles and display boards about the charcoal trade.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Horse heads (Kohlenstraße) on quaeldich.de
- ↑ Harzer Wanderadel: stamp point 210 - Meilerplatz ( memento from December 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on harzer-wandernadel.de
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- Geopark Harz · Braunschweiger Land · Ostfalen: Info sheet Landmark 12 Spitzkegelhalde - Hohe Linde ( Memento from 6th August 2011 in the Internet Archive ) , including information on An den Pferdeheads (PDF; 822 kB)