Schierenkopf
| Schierenkopf | ||
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 Partial view of the Schierenkopf basalt quarry natural monument |
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| height | 363.2 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Wolfhagen , Kassel district , Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | Waldecker Wald in the West Hessian mountainous region | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 ′ 41 ″ N , 9 ° 6 ′ 40 ″ E | |
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| Type | volcano | |
| rock | basalt | |
| Development | Road from the southeast to the former quarry | |
| particularities | Location of the natural monument "Basalt Quarry Schierenkopf" | |
The Schierenkopf is a 363.2 m high basalt cone in the Wolfhager Stadtwald on the boundary of the north Hessian city of Wolfhagen in the Kassel district to the Bühle district , a district of Bad Arolsen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district .
Geographical location
It is located about 700 m southeast of Bühle in the western part of the Habichtswald Nature Park and in the eastern roof of the Waldecker Wald ( natural spatial main unit 340.1) and its subunit Langer Wald (340.13). It rises about 35 m above the valley of the Dusebach coming from the south and flowing past its western foot . The state road L 3198 from Freienhagen in the south to Landau in the north runs around 800 m west of the mountain.
Extensive natural monument
On the south flank of the mountain there is a basalt quarry that was abandoned in 1962 and is now overgrown and that has been under nature protection as a natural monument (no. 6.33.887) since 2005, together with the former quarry at the Plattenkopf, about 1.1 km south . The quarry contains beautiful basalt columns from the Young Tertiary and tuff as well as exposed sandstones , which occur as xenolites of up to half a meter in size in the basalt. Also Erdmantelgesteinsfragmente with olivine , pyroxene and dark mica to about 10 cm in size were found. Occasionally, augite crystals up to 2 cm are also found in basalt, and Phillipsite up to 3 mm in cavities in basalt .
Access
The access to the former quarry is an approximately 900 meter long driveway from the asphalt road in the southeast, which, coming from Wolfhagen, crosses the city forest from northeast to southwest.
Footnotes
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Mineralienatlas - Fossilatlas: Basalt quarry at the Schierenkopf
Web links
- Bea Ricken: The magic of crystals: In the Schierenkopf quarry, collectors go in search of minerals. In: HNA . June 6, 2014 .
- OSM link to the map display: "Basalt quarry Schierenkopf" in the city forest of Wolfhagen