Questenberg (Bramwald)

Questenberg
	View from the mill bridge over the mill arm of the Fulda between the old town of Münden with the Altem Packhof (right) and Eselwerder (left) northwards to the Questenberg
height	220 m above sea level NHN
location	at Hann. Mouths ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains	Bramwald
Coordinates	51 ° 25 '27 " N , 9 ° 39' 3" E Coordinates: 51 ° 25 '27 " N , 9 ° 39' 3" E

The Questenberg is about 220 m above sea level. NHN high, distant southwest foothills of the Blümer Berg ( 320.4 m ) in the Mündener Bramwald . It is located in the urban area of Hann. Münden in southern Lower Saxony .

geography

location

The Questenberg rises within the Münden Nature Park in the north of the urban area of Hann. Münden. Its high altitudes, sloping to the southwest towards the origin of the Weser, are located about 2.3 km southwest of the summit of the Blümer Berg and 800 m north of the old town of Münden. To the south-east is the historic Mündener suburb of Blume and to the north-north-west is the district of Gimte .

Parts of the Mündener Stadtforst spread out on the Questenberg. There are also those of the Weserbergland-Kaufunger Wald protected landscape area ( CDDA no. 325317; identified in 1989; 285.018 km² ).

Natural allocation

The Questenberg is located in the Weser Uplands in the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37) and in the main unit Solling, Bramwald and Reinhardswald (370) on the border of the sub-units Bramwald (370.5) with the natural area Mündener Bramwald (370.52) in the east as well as the subunits Mündener Fulda-Werra-Talung (370.6) approximately in the south and Weser breakthrough valley (370.3) approximately in the north.

History and description

The elevation was first mentioned in a document as Questenberg in 1579. 1406 there is talk of the quest in combing invoices . On the western mountain side there is a parcel that the field names on the Quest carries. This points to a prehistoric cult site where a festival was celebrated with the quest at Whitsun. Local researchers claim to have discovered the former cult site on the mountainside in the 1960s and recommended an excavation . It should be a triangular-shaped area, 100 × 60 meters in size, framed by a moat and hornbeam hedge.

Since the Middle Ages viticulture has been practiced on the steep southern slope of the Questenberg, producing a wine called Questenberger . It was first mentioned in a document in 1390 as a remarkably good wine. There is a description from 1545 in which the 1540 vintage (see drought in Central Europe 1540 ) of the Questenberger from the ducal vineyard on the "sunny side of the Questenberg" is described as "so excellent" that it was preferred to foreign wines. He was on the menu for the wedding of Duke Erich II and Sidonie von Sachsen in 1545 in the Welfenschloss Münden .

On the Questenberg lie on approximately 213 m height residues in the Seven Years' War applied Franzosenschanze Münden . Part of the Dransfeld Rampe section of the Hanover Southern Railway, which was inaugurated in 1856 and has since been closed, ran on the lower slopes . The Weserliedanlage, built in 1931, is located on the southwest slope . North of the elevation on the outskirts of Gimte is the New Jewish Cemetery, inaugurated in 1932 .

Slope stabilization work above Bundesstrasse 80 (2016)

On the southwest side above the Weser and the B 80 and on the southeast side in the Andreesberg area, the Questenberg has steep slopes. There is a risk of landslides there , which already occurred in the 20th and early 21st centuries and led to the demolition of Hotel Andree's Berg from 1986 onwards. In 2016 extensive slope stabilization was carried out above the B 80.

Transport links and hiking

In the past, a curve of the Dransfeld ramp of the now dismantled Hannöversche Südbahn railway ran on the lower south-west slope of the Questenberg just below the Weserliedanlage . Its route came from the northeast in the direction of Dransfeld , bent on the southwest slope of the elevation to the east in the direction of the suburb of Blume, and then on a dam to the Münden Werra Valley Bridge and Hann. To lead Münden.

The origin of the Weser with the inland port of the Weser transshipment point lies at the south-west foot . The federal highway 80 , which runs from the Werra into the Weser valley and runs west of the spur together with the federal highway 3 over the Weser bridge, leads past there. The Questenbergweg branches off from the B 80 on the southern edge of the Blume district . The Eichenweg street , which branches off from this residential street and crosses the former railway line and where there are parking spaces, leads uphill to the elevation with the Weserliedanlage.

The footpath, which runs from the end of the Eichenweg up to the elevation, is part of a common section of the European long-distance hiking trail E6 , the Frau-Holle- Weg , the Gaußrunde and the student path . From the elevation or the Weserliedanlage in the direction of the Hann. The 13-Brückenweg leads to the Volkmarshausen district of Mündener in the north-northeast .

Historical views

Map of Münden with the Questenberg ("Weinberge"; bottom left; 1728)
View from the direction of the Mündener district of Kattenbühl with a view of the Wesertal (1787)
View from the Fulda (1791)
View from the Fulda (1791)