Rammelsberg (Harz)
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The Rammelsberg with former mining facilities; Today the visitor mine of the Rammelsberg World Heritage Site |
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height | 635.1 m above sea level NHN | |
location | near Goslar ; District of Goslar , Lower Saxony ( Germany ) | |
Mountains | resin | |
Coordinates | 51 ° 53 '15 " N , 10 ° 25' 54" E | |
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particularities | Rammelsberg mine (museum and visitor mine ) |
The Rammelsberg is 635.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain on the northern edge of the Harz Mountains . It is located near the core town of Goslar in the district of Goslar in Lower Saxony .
The well-known, disused Rammelsberg mine is located in the mountain . In 1988, after more than 1,000 years almost uninterrupted mining the ore set promotion; Since 1992, the entire area with the part visitor mine Rammelsberg to UNESCO - World Heritage Site .
Surname
Legends of the knight ramm
According to a legend, the mountain is said to have got its name from a knight named Ramm : On a hunting excursion in 968, the knight, a follower of Emperor Otto the Great , tied his horse to a tree in order to stalk the game on foot in the rough terrain. The horse pawed its hooves in impatient expectation of its master, exposing the ore. In honor of the “discoverer”, the mountain is said to have been called Rammelsberg by Otto I there .
The knight Ramm also plays a role in the legend of the magic jet. Here, together with the knight Otto, he redeems 11 girls and his own father who were held captive by the magic jet and thus wins their treasures "on the Rammelsberg", which were then lifted by miners.
Ramsen
Local researchers derive the name from Ramsen , the common name for the bear's garlic plant in the Harz region . Rammelsberg would then be "the mountain overgrown with wild garlic".
Reference to ore deposits
The term ram can also be found in other areas with mining history traditions, such as Ramsau. The Italian word for “copper” is rame .
Ramming
According to linguists, the name of the knight cannot be traced in ancient sources, rather an origin from the verb rammeln is postulated.
geography
location
The Rammelsberg rises on the northern edge of the Harz in the Harz Nature Park . Its summit is 2.2 km south of the center of the core city of Goslar. The Abzucht flows past the mountain in the west , which feeds the Herzberger pond at its western foot , and in the east, the D Körperke flows into the Abzucht in Goslar.
Natural allocation
The Rammelsberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Upper Harz (380) and in the subunit Goslarer Bergland (380.2) to the natural area Gosebergland (380.21). Its landscape falls to the north into the natural area of Immenroder Schotterfluren (510 1 .12), which is a sub-unit in the main unit group Northern Harz foreland (51), in the main unit Harzburg Harz foreland (510 1 ) and its part Vienenburger foreland (510 1 .1) Harzburger Harzvorland (510 1 ) counts.
Protected areas
On the western slope of the Rammelsberg is the nature reserve Blockschuthalden am Rammelsberg ( CDDA no. 81425; designated 1983; 18.5 hectares in size). Parts of the Harz landscape protection area (district of Goslar) are located on the mountain (CDDA no. 321402; 2001; 389.75 km² ).
Mining history
See the Mining History section of the Rammelsberg article
Herzberger pond
In order to have enough impact water for the water wheels of the mine in dry times , the Herzberger pond was created in 1561 at the western foot of the Rammelsberg. In the years 1926 to around 2000 this was operated as a forest pool . Until the mine was closed, the water was used to cool the system, the warm water was then pumped back into the pond and heated the swimming pool in the forest pool. The facilities of the bathing establishment have been demolished since around 2014.
Transport links
Rammelsberger Strasse branches off from Bundesstrasse 241 in Goslar , and leads to the mining museum at the western foot of Rammelsberg near Herzberger Teich, where it becomes Bergtal ; There are three parking spaces there (cars and buses). The Bruchchaussee branches off about halfway from this road ; On this road, which winds up the north-western mountain slope, there is the Blauer Haufen parking lot at about 382 m above sea level and at the end of the road at almost 400 m above sea level there is a parking lot between the Winkler weather shaft and the Maltermeisterturm with the Maltermeister Turm restaurant .
The 803 city bus runs from Goslar train station to the Bergbaumuseum terminus .
Hiking, hang-gliding and paragliding
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The European long-distance hiking trails E6 and E11 lead through Goslar, north of the Rammelsberg . The Harzklub-Weg 23A hiking trail (on the Alten Windeweg and Rammelsberger Weg ) branches off from a shared short section of both trails there; Harzklub-Weg 23G (on Borchersweg ) runs slightly to the west below it . Forest paths lead across the summit region. The world cultural heritage Rammelsberg is included as No. 91 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin.
On the mountain there are the hang-glider and paraglider launch sites northwest (approx. 600 m ) and southwest (approx. 610 m ) of the Harzer Drachen- und Gleitschirmverein Goslar e. V. (HDGV).
See also
literature
- Georg Agricola: Twelve Books on Mining and Metallurgy , 1556, edited as a translation in 1928 and published by the Agricola Society at the Deutsches Museum. ( online PDF 174 MB ).
Web links
- The Rammelsberg (Goslar) , history and pictures, on raymond-faure.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Agricola, book 1, p. 29
- ↑ The Treasures of the Magic Jet . In: Dietmar Werner (Ed.): Bergmannssagen aus dem Harz . With cultural-scientific and mining-historical explanations by Eberhard Neubert. 2nd, revised edition. VEB Deutscher Verlag für Grundstoffindindustrie, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00513-0 , About finding mineral resources, p. 43-46 .
- ↑ Introduction . In: Dietmar Werner (Ed.): Bergmannssagen aus dem Harz . With cultural-scientific and mining-historical explanations by Eberhard Neubert. 2nd, revised edition. VEB Deutscher Verlag for basic industry, Leipzig 1990, ISBN 3-342-00513-0 , introduction, p. 18 .
- ↑ See entries “Ramme” and “rammeln” in Wolfgang Pfeifer (Ed.): Etymological Dictionary of German . Edition Kramer im Rhenania-Buchversand, Koblenz 2012, ISBN 978-3-941960-03-9 , p. 1078 (1665 pp.).
- ↑ Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ Harz hiking pin: stamp point 91 / Rammelsberg World Heritage Site , on harzer-wandernadel.de