Schlossberg (Küstelberg)
| Schlossberg | ||
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| height | 790.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Küstelberg ; Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Sauerland ( Rothaar Mountains ) | |
| Dominance | 1.7 km → Reetsberg | |
| Notch height | 95.9 m ↓ Hochsauerland-Höhenstraße near the parking lot | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 '15 " N , 8 ° 37' 7" E | |
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The Schlossberg near Küstelberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia , is 790.8 m above sea level. NHN high elevation of the Rothaargebirge .
On the hilltop was in the Middle Ages, a hill fort , which had long departed is. Only its surrounding mighty wall and a moat are left.
geography
location
The Schlossberg is located in the northeast part of the Rothaargebirge in the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge nature park between Winterberg in the southwest and Medebach in the southeast. Its summit rises about 800 m east-southeast of the edge of the village of Küstelberg (zu Medebach), and its northeast branch is the Henkmannskopf ( 673.9 m ). The state road 872 (Küstelberg– Wissinghausen ) leads a little north past the Schlosskopf and to the west and south the L 740, on whose route the Küstelberg – Medebach Heidenstrasse section once ran.
About 25 m southwest of the summit ( 791.3 m ), a trigonometric point is shown on topographic maps at an altitude of 790 m .
Natural allocation
The Schlossberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) and in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) to the subunit High Side (333.7); to the northwest the landscape falls into the natural area of Harfeld (333.56). In the main unit Ostsauerländer Gebirgsrand (332) and in the subunit Grafschafter Bergland (332.5) the natural areas Grafschafter Kammer (with Upländer Tor ) join in the north to northeast (332.52) and Hardt and Wipperberg (332.51) in the east to southeast.
Streams and watershed
The Schlossberg is delimited in the north by the steeply sloping Dittelsbach, in the east by the Henkmecke, Buchmecke and Laubecke and in the south by the Hallebach; they all belong to the catchment area of the Wilden Aa , whose water flows through the Orke , Eder and Weser near Bremerhaven into the North Sea . To the south-west, the orc, which rises on the outskirts of Küstelberg, digs deep into the loose floating earth layers that were pushed up there during the last Pleistocene glacial period. Beyond the Rhine-Weser watershed running through Küstelberg, the Neue Born rises around 550 m northwest of the village church , the water of which flows into the North Sea through Hillebach , Ruhr and Rhine near Rotterdam . The Küstelberg springs of Hille and Neue Born mark the easternmost points of the Ruhr river system. The Ruhr spring is located about 4 km west of the Schlossberg and the Weser tributary Diemel rises just 5.5 km north-northeast (depending on the beeline ).
Protected areas
Parts of the nature reserve NSG Waldreservat Glindfeld <LP Medebach> ( CDDA -Nr. 319281), which was founded in 2002 and is 21.53 km² in size, are located on the Schlossberg . Around the hilltop there are parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area, Glindfeld-Orketal forest reserve (with side valleys) (FFH no. 4817-304; 29.97 km²). In addition, parts of the Medebach landscape protection area (CDDA no. 345073; 1983; 44.68 km²) and the European bird sanctuary Medebacher Bucht (VSG no. 4717-401; 138.72 km²) extend there .
history
General
In the second half of the 13th century, the Augustinian convent Küstelberg was built in Küstelberg , probably a spin-off of the Walburgis monastery in Meschede . The monastery was given appropriate property by Counts of Arnsberg and aristocratic families. According to documents, it was "desolate and dilapidated" as early as 1299. The nuns then built a new monastery in the nearby "Neu-Küstelberg" in Glindfeld, the Augustinian convent Glindfeld , which existed as a women's monastery until the end of the 15th century. The monastery property in the Küstelberg district was then managed by the following Kreuzherrenstift until secularization . Then Glindfeld's forest administrations took over the rebuilding, maintenance and use of the forests for almost two centuries. The beech forest taken over by the monastery was supplemented with mixed tree species on the devastated sites and is now a typical species-rich state forest of North Rhine-Westphalia. The traces of the previous monastery are still omnipresent. There are hidden witnesses such as late medieval cart paths, elongated field terraces, numerous kilns and ancient trees in many places.
Wallburg
On the castle hilltop was in the Middle Ages, a hill fort that is destroyed for a long time and expire. Only the surrounding mighty outer wall of about 12 m foot width, an inner ditch and remains of the tower foundation can still be seen. The system has an internal extension of around 60 m in an east-northeast direction and around 35 m in a north-northwest direction.
Inside the system, small pits (mardels) and foundation blocks of a former observation tower can be seen in various places. In a small prospect before the First World War (1914-1918), a 2.40 m deep pit was uncovered, but in which there was only rubble. A hill in the complex did not turn out to be the location of a watchtower, but rather that of a lookout tower built in 1845. Historical news is not known about the Schlossberg. According to local tradition, the von Schlechtrime or Schlagrime family is said to have sat here, as the mountain was called Schlagsberg in the Middle Ages. The lords of the castle from the Schlossberg may have temporarily secured the Heidenstrasse , an east-west connection through the Sauerland, which led past the foot of the hill and ran from Cologne via Attendorn , Elspe , Schmallenberg to Kassel . During robbery excavations within the castle complex in 1986 finds were destroyed if necessary. The system was also damaged during the construction of the ski lift (see below).
Legend of the Schlossberg
Only ditches and ramparts and agricultural facilities bear witness to the past of the hill fort on the Schlossberg, which has long since fallen into disrepair. From the picturesque valley of the Orke tributary Helle , a door led into the mountain's interior. A man from Winterberg, who had obtained a spring root by placing a red cloth under a woodpecker's nest, once went into the mountain here. Then he came into a large vault where gold and silver lay in great piles. A white maiden sat at a table and said to him that he should take as much of the gold and silver as he ever wanted. He was happy to do that. But when he thought it was enough and he wanted to leave again, the girl called out to him: “Don't forget the best!” Then the man believed he should take more gold and put as much gold into his pockets as he was carrying could. But the virgin meant the spring root which he had placed on the table when he came. No sooner has he set foot out of the door into the forest than it suddenly fell shut behind him and pinched his heel. A child from the nearby Küstelberg went to the Schlossberg once when it was eight years old and only came out again when she was eighteen.
Leisure and Tourism
The Schlossberg is easily accessible by bike and hiking trails such as the Medebacher Rothaarsteig -Zubringer, which follows the Hanseweg of the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV). On its north-western flank, old beech forest was cleared in the form of a swath and a ski lift with a slope was built by Küstelberg investors ; the slope, which is equipped with snow cannons in the practice area, is one of the most challenging that the Hochsauerland offers ambitious downhill skiers. Later, new operators added a hiking hut and a high rope climbing garden made of weather-resistant Douglas fir trees from the Henkmannskopf. Opposite the parking lot on the L 740, you can enter the Reetsberg cross-country ski run , the guidance system of which is designed as a nature trail . The interests of species and landscape protection in the Küstelberg mountain forest area are shown here. In the summit area, a stationary weather station continuously sends out data. Thus Medebach-Schloßberg is also a constant for Westphalian "weather frogs" and the media.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information )
- ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
literature
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Ruhfuss: The Sauerland mountainous region. A book of the plaice , Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (Hrsg.), Dortmund, 1919
- Friedrich-Wilhelm Ruhfuss: Westphalian book of legends. The most beautiful legends of the Red Earth , Wilhelm Uhlmann-Bixterheide (Ed.), Dortmund, 1921
- Excavations and finds in Westphalia-Lippe; Find chronicle Hochsauerlandkreis 1948–1980; S. Lukanov
- Excavations and finds in Westphalia-Lippe; Year 4; 1986