Scharfenstein (Hesse)
| Scharfenstein | ||
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 View from the Odenberg to the Scharfenstein |
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| height | 304 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Schwalm-Eder-Kreis , Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | West Hessian mountainous region | |
| Dominance | 1.2 km → Odenberg | |
| Notch height | 34 m | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 11 '32 " N , 9 ° 23' 34" E | |
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| rock | basalt | |
The Scharfenstein is around 304 m above sea level. NHN high basalt cone near Gudensberg in the north Hessian Schwalm-Eder district in the West Hessian highlands .
As a climbing area, it is popular due to the over 80 climbing routes. The up to 25 m high rock faces have been climbed since the First World War.
Geographical location
The Scharfenstein is located as part of the Gudensberg threshold in the West Hessian Depression, almost 2.5 km northeast of the center of Gudensberg and around 1 km west-southwest of the Gudensberg district of Dissen . The federal motorway 49 runs directly to the east and can be reached from the parking lots. Beyond that, Kreisstraße 6 leads from Gudensberg to Dissen. The Schartenhöhe of the Scharfenstein is at least 34 meters and its dominance about 1.2 kilometers, whereby the Odenberg is the reference mountain in each case .
geology
The Scharfenstein rises about 50 m from the surrounding plain. The jagged basalt cone with its mighty rock debris is an extensive natural monument with significant flora at the base of the cone. Huge chunks of stone have broken off and fallen over the course of time, and were blown up and used in road construction. The particularly hard nature of the basalts is striking . The hardness and high density of the rock are responsible for the noticeable lack of vegetation and the fissures. The edges of the freshly broken basalt fragments are razor-sharp, which is why the Scharfenstein bears its name.
The immediate vicinity of the rocks is poor in basalt gravel masses in the clay, which usually surround the basalt knolls as a weathering product. While diluvial loess loam is found on the south side , the north side shows a tertiary area that belongs to the Limburgite group.
Originally, the basalt cone was about half the height. Freezing water had an explosive effect on the capillary in the stone in winter , and on March 21 and 22, 1865, the cone broke apart.
Literary treatment
The Scharfenstein entered literature through the romantic poem "Der Scharfenstein" by Franz von Dingelstedt . Wilhelm Ide mentions the Scharfenstein in his story Das Rote Haus:
"At the rocky turrets of the Scharfenstein, when she was walking forward with rich presents with riflemen from the hiking friends, the white maiden called her warning after them:" Don't forget the best! ""
Ludwig Emil Grimm made a drawing of the basalt cone in 1835, which is now in the Brothers Grimm Museum in Kassel.
legend
The forecast according to a virgin keep one hidden inside the sharp stone treasure. She emerges every seven years and sneezes seven times; if you shout “God help!” seven times, you win the treasure and the virgin. Once she heard a carter sneeze and replied six times, “God help!” But when he impatiently called out a curse the seventh time, the virgin disappeared forever.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Route list , last accessed on January 27, 2017
- ↑ Scharfenstein - Scharfenstein. DAV rock info. (No longer available online.) German Alpine Club , formerly in the original ; Retrieved January 7, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hessisch-Waldeckischer Gebirgs- und Heimatverein eV and Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation (ed.): Habichtswald Rheinhardswald Nature Park . Topographic recreational map 1: 50,000. HR. Wiesbaden 2008, ISBN 978-3-89446-319-9 (Exact value of the notch height not known, given value is a minimum value (can be up to 9 meters higher). It was determined from the distance between the contour lines (10 meters in altitude ) in the Map.).
