Rinsley Rock
The Rinsleyfelsen (also just called Rinsley or Rinsleie ) is a rock formation in the Saalhauser Mountains north of Saalhausen in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia . It is listed in the country's geotope cadastre as a natural monument . The main rock with summit cross and summit location at 559.2 m above sea level. NHN is about 15 to 20 meters high.
geography
location
The Rinsleyfelsen is located in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park about 1.2 km north-northwest of Saalhausen , a district of Lennestadt . On the Lenne sloping towards the southern slope Saalhausen Hills it is located on the Südsüdwestflanke of Rinsenbergs ( 634.4 m ), a Südsüdwestausläufer of Himbergs ( 688.5 m ) - between 559.2 m (peak) and about 510 m (lower End of the stockpile) height. Almost 25 m northeast of the formation summit is a 554.2 m high point. The Gleierbach tributary Spinkacker Bach runs west below the rocks .
Rock formations in the area
About 1.1 km west of the Rinsleyfelsen, west below the Herrscheid ( 608.3 m ), the Gleierfelsen , a somewhat smaller rock formation, rises from the area. Similar close formations are, for example, the Albaumer Klippen east of Albaum , the Oberhundemer Klippen east-southeast of Oberhundem and the Stelborner Kippen northeast of Stelborn .
geology
The Rinsleyfelsen lies in the border area of the Inner Sauerland Depression to the South Sauerland Uplands. The sinks form the Upper Devonian to Lower Carboniferous filling of the Attendorn-Elsper double trough . The alternation of different rocks created a large undulating sequence of thresholds and domes running in a south-west to north-east direction as well as evacuation troughs and elongated depressions and hollows. This also includes the “Altenhundem – Kickenbacher Sattel” and the “Altenhundem – Langeneier Mulde”.
Almost perpendicular to the hollow and saddle formation, the mountain range has shifted sideways in the form of displacements and disturbances . The Lenne , which largely follows the undulating hollows and saddles up to Altenhundem, breaks through them from here in a northeasterly direction and follows the disturbances and shifts. In the area of the Rinsenberg, the “Lower Harbecke layers” emerge, which are delimited by two thin keratophyr tuff layers.
The Rinsley rock owes its formation to the volcanic activity on the bottom of the Lower Devonian Sea around 400 million years ago . The ash flow and crystal tuffs existing main rock towers on for about 15 to 20 meters today. Below the rocks is a heap of broken, massive stone blocks, the scree of which gives an idea of the original dimensions of the rock formation; it reaches down to a height of about 510 m .
hike
The rock formation towering over the treetops can be climbed and is secured with a handrail. The highest rock has a summit cross and can be seen from the ridge of the Rothaargebirge south of the Lenne . The ascent to the Rinsleyfelsen takes place either from the Gleietal through the “Spinkackersiepen” between “Bauernhagen” and “Herrscheid” on the saddle to the rock formation or from Saalhausen via the hiking trail X18 in the direction of Hoher Lehnberg . The Rinsleyfelsen is one of the selection of 43 locations in South Westphalia that were presented as particularly popular hiking destinations (soul locations) by representatives of Sauerland tourism at the International Tourism Exchange in Berlin in March 2019.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ cf. Also contribution A journey to oneself , Westfalenpost, newspaper for the district of Olpe, issue of March 6, 2019
literature
- Claus Dieter Clausen (among others): Geological map of North Rhine-Westphalia, 4814 Lennestadt, 1978
Coordinates: 51 ° 7 '42.2 " N , 8 ° 9' 43.6" E