Ruhner Mountains
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The Ruhner Mountains are up to 176.8 m above sea level. NHN high terminal moraine near Ziegendorf . They are located in southern Mecklenburg and reach into the Prignitz . After the Helpter Mountains, the Ruhner Mountains have the second highest elevation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
They are named after the former village of Ruhn , which is now a desert . At the beginning of the 1980s the basic structure of the village (remains of foundations and gardens) was still recognizable.
Location and nature
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Most of the Ruhner Berge are located in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . The eastern foothills extend into the Prignitz district in Brandenburg. The ridge is located around 15 kilometers south-southeast of the city of Parchim or extends in a crescent shape around two kilometers from the main town of Marnitz .
The Löcknitz rises on the western slope of the Ruhner Berge, which is about twelve kilometers long and only a few kilometers wide . Marnitz, the largest village in the barely populated range of hills, is located on the northeast slope of the Ruhner Mountains. In the north, the federal highway 24 cuts through the hilly landscape. In the east is Suckow .
The chain of hills of the Ruhner Berge, declared a landscape protection area in 1994 , is a compression moraine area of the penultimate glaciation, the Saale Ice Age. From the 16th century onwards, ash burners were active in the forest , producing potash for glass production. They experienced their heyday in the middle of the 17th century when glass distilleries were established in Kummin, Tessenow , Griebow, Ruhn, Leppin, Poltnitz and other communities. The high demand for wood led to the devastation of the surrounding forests and ultimately to the abandonment of the glass kilns in the mid-18th century. In 1723 the last glassworks in Ruhn and Griebow closed. In the 19th century the work of the ash burner continued to disappear due to the use of industrially obtained potassium carbonate . During the First and Second World Wars , the residents not only collected dry wood, but also cut considerable amounts of wood from the forest. This led to a displacement of the beeches in favor of less demanding tree species such as the spruce or pine. The district in Marnitz therefore carried out a reforestation with beeches on 46.6 hectares in the 1930s as part of a job creation measure . In the 21st century this is mainly covered by mixed forest. With the help of forestry measures, further thinning is to take place, which also includes the introduction of locally appropriate deciduous tree species. A nature trail illustrates the special features of nature. The forest area of the Ruhner Mountains is called Marnitzer Buchen .
Ruhner Berg
The highest point of the Ruhner Berge ridge is 176.8 m above sea level. NHN the Ruhner Berg, which with this height is the second highest elevation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and protrudes quite clearly from its surroundings. Several hiking trails from Mentin or Drefahl lead to its mountain top.
On the Ruhner Berg every year on the third Advent there is a traditional tower blowing from the new observation tower built in 2001. In 2014, for example, this was the state trombone factory from Barkow with the support of hunting horn players from Blüthen and Reetz .
FF stone
In addition to the official surveying stone at the highest point, there is the trigonometric point of the main triangular network of the first triangulation in Mecklenburg by Friedrich Paschen, called by geodesists FF-Stein . The name of the stone is based on Friedrich Franz II , who commissioned the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Land Survey (1853-1860).
Cyrillic letters, such as a "ГИК" and the year "1945г", were subsequently stamped into the stone .
Observation tower
As early as June 1907, the Marnitz Warrior and Military Association suggested building a Moltke tower . But it was not until 1913 that a competition "among the artists born in Mecklenburg or resident there" was announced, which the Malchow-born architect Friedrich Wilhelm Virck was able to win. Due to a lack of funds and the beginning of the First World War, the project was finally discontinued in 1916 and the donations collected were transferred to a charity foundation for war survivors. Almost 20 years later, a similar project could be tackled. In 1933 an observation tower was built on the Ruhner Berg. At that time he was given the name of the Gauleiter for Mecklenburg-Lübeck, Friedrich Hildebrandt . This tower stood until 1946. The construction of a wooden fire watch tower was planned as early as 1952 , but it was not built until 1960–1961 according to a new plan, it stood until 1975. In 2000 and 2001 a 32 meter high brick tower was built. From the viewing platform you have a view of the forest landscape of the Ruhner Mountains, the Mecklenburg Lake District , the lowlands ( Prignitz ) and across to the Elbe . The tower was financed by EU funds, donations from companies and private individuals based in the region, as well as the surrounding communities, whose coats of arms are shown on tin signs inside the tower. In addition to tourist use, the building also serves as a cell phone mast.
Telecommunications tower
On the south-western slope of the Ruhner Berg there has been a 91 m high telecommunications tower built by Deutsche Funkturm GmbH in reinforced concrete ( 53 ° 17 ′ 39 ″ N , 11 ° 54 ′ 4 ″ E ) since 1992 .
Surveys
The Ruhner Mountains include:
- Ruhner Berg (176.8 m)
- Dachsberg (169.1 m)
- Reiherberg (161.4 m)
- Priemerberg (152.6 m)
- Buchberg (150.1 m)
- Scharfenberg (135.7 m)
- Krugerberg (128.3 m)
- Taubenberg (126.7 m)
- Black Mountain (125.2 m)
- Horststückberg (124.5 m)
See also
literature
- Elisabeth von Falkenhausen : Discover the Prignitz - nature and culture of a region . 5th, updated and expanded edition. Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-930388-70-7 , A view from the Ruhner Mountains back to the Prignitz, p. 202 .
Web links
- Landscape profile Ruhner Berge of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
Individual evidence
- ^ State Office for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Geology Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Güstrow 2000 (Ed.): Geological map of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania 1: 500,000 .
- ↑ Information panel for commercial forms of use in the Ruhner Mountains , set up at the source of the Löcknitz, March 2017.
- ↑ Information panel for the extraction of firewood in the Ruhner Mountains , set up at the source of the Löcknitz, March 2017.
- ↑ The forest information board , set up at the source of the Löcknitz, March 2017.
- ↑ Sagenhafes am Ruhner Berg , from the editorial office of the Parchimer Zeitung , December 15, 2015, accessed on March 28, 2017.
- ↑ Deutsche Bauzeitung , Volume 47, 1913, No. 49 (from June 18, 1913), p. 448. (Note on the announcement)
- ↑ Ruhner Berge landscape protection area on the website of the Eldenburg-Lübz Office, accessed on October 10, 2013.
- ^ Chronicle of the Marnitz community
Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ' N , 11 ° 54' E