Rough stones

The Rough Stones (March 2017)

The rough stones (also called rough stones or rough stones ) are a group of four red sandstone rocks in the Habichtswald Nature Park on the Rauenstein in the north Hessian district of Kassel ( Germany ).

The elevation and its rocks are protected as a natural monument (no. 6.33.875) (see section Extensive natural monuments in the list of natural monuments in Wolfhagen ).

geography

Former restaurant Monschein

location

The Rauenstein are located in the eastern foothills of the Long Forest, between the towns of Wolf Hagen in the north and Naumburg in the south on the wooded range of hills Monschein located Rauenstein ( 366.4  m above sea level.  NHN ). The hill rises between the Wolfhagen districts of Bründersen in the east-northeast and Ippinghausen in the west-southwest. It is located less than 400 meters ( straight line ) north-northwest of the 1,7 km southwest of the village Bründersen at the former restaurant "Mondschein" at the national road 251 located hikers parking lot .

Natural allocation

The Rauenstein with the rough stones lies in the natural spatial main unit group West Hessisches Bergland (No. 34) in the main unit Ostwaldecker Randsenken (341) on the border of the sub-units Wolfhager Hügelland (341.3) with the natural area Istha level (341.34) in the east and Naumburg Depression and Ridge (341.4) with the natural area Ippinghäuser Grund (with Rauenstein) (341.40) in the west.

Geology and history

The Rauenstein and the Rauenstein consist of sandstone of Wilhelm Hausen layers of Middle Bunter and are about 243 million years old.

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See discussion section Neolithic sacrificial sites? .

Sacrificial trough with three supply lines (?) On the highest rock

Petroglyph of an animal (wolf?, Wild boar?) On one of the rocks

In the old Germanic language the syllable "Rau" means court. Thing may have been held between the four rocks . On the highest rock with 5.20 m was probably in the 2nd millennium BC. Chr. A sacrificial trough with three supply lines carved out. An animal head ( petroglyph ) carved to the south at a height of 1 m on this rock could indicate that the rocks probably served as animal sacrifices in the Neolithic Age .

After the Second World War , a group of around ten young people from Bründersen founded a secret group, the Black Hand gang , which set up a weapon hiding place near the Rauen Steinen . To do this, they stole rifles and ammunition from the Allies billeted in the area , some of them from stocks that they had confiscated from the Germans after the liberation . After a boy died in an accident with live ammunition , the shell of which he had wanted to rework into rings, the police searched the hiding place and the group broke up. However, the weapons stored there had previously been buried elsewhere in the area, so that the search was unsuccessful. The whereabouts of the weapons is unclear.

Tourism and hiking

The Rauen Steine can be reached as a hiking destination, for example, from the hikers' parking lot near the former “Monschein” restaurant on the B 251. From there follow the hiking sign "H5". In addition, the Ippinghausen – Bründersen section of the approximately 22 km long wolf trail, which has existed since 2009, runs past the rock group . The 52 km long hiking trail Volkmarser Weg ( Volkmarsen - Fritzlar ) runs along the eastern edge of the Rauenstein forest .

References and comments

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
3. ↑ Rauensteine ​​natural monument , accessed on March 3, 2015, at naturpark-habichtswald.de
4. ^ Heinrich Büscher: The Black Hand . In: Dirk Lindemann (Ed.): Wolfhager Stories, Part 3: Post-War Era and Small Town Loss . Litho-Verlag, Wolfhagen 2017, ISBN 978-3-946128-23-6 , p. 14-16 .
5. ↑ Wolfsfährte hiking trail ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( Signs : mostly black paws on a yellow background), on naturfreunde-hessen.de (PDF; 0.52 MB) 
6. ↑ Volkmarser Weg hiking trail (sign: "V")

literature

• Eduard Brauns: Hiking and travel guide through North Hesse and Waldeck . A. Bernecker Verlag, Melsungen 1971, p. 85

Coordinates: 51 ° 17 '  N , 9 ° 10'  E