Roter Berg (Hahnenkamm)
| Red mountain | ||
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| height | 556.2 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Hechlingen ; Heidenheim ; Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Hahnenkamm , Franconian Alb | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 58 '59 " N , 10 ° 43' 0" E | |
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The red mountain is up to 556.2 m above sea level. NHN meter high, wooded ridge of Jurassic limestone - ridge Hahnenkamm , a ridge of Frankenalb in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .
location
The Rote Berg rises approximately northwest of Hechlingen am See and southeast of Hohentrüdingen .
Geological
The ridge of the Red Mountain belongs to the Brown Jurassic Level and is made up of impermeable Opalinus Clay . The clay and slate layers are covered by yellow to red fine-grained iron sandstone , which is probably eponymous.
Historical
Around 3500 BC, in the early Neolithic , there was an extensive settlement of the Michelsberg culture on the Red Mountain . In the Middle Ages, the mountain belonged to a larger contiguous, hardly developed forest district; The low productivity of the sandy soil of the Red Mountain meant that there were no plans to clear the area. After the Salian King Henry III. In 1053 the forest of the Roten Berg along with other forests had been given to the then Bishop Gebhard von Eichstätt , who later became Pope Viktor II , around 1100 the Lords of Truhendingen were enfeoffed by the Bishop of Eichstätt with the bailiwick over this area. The noble family built their castle "Hohentrüdingen" on the edge of the forest on a mountain spur of the western Hahnenkamm. In 1535 the size of the Red Mountain Woods, which belonged to this castle and were mainly used for hunting, was given as 200 acres . With the extinction of the Truhendinger in the 14th century, the forests came into the possession of the Burgraves of Nuremberg , who later became the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach . The traditional beech and oak stocks of the Red Mountain served as pasture for cattle for centuries. In 1806 the forest ownership came to the Kingdom of Bavaria and has remained a state forest to this day . Spruce and pine have predominated in it since the 20th century .
Others
A 6 km long nature and bird protection trail "Roter Berg" begins near Hechlingen am See.
literature
- Martin Winter: In the pine and spruce silence on the Red Mountain . In: Alt-Gunzenhausen 48 (1993), pp 49-56.