Schlossberg (Quedlinburg)
| Schlossberg | ||
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 View from Wassertorstraße eastwards to Quedlinburger Schlossberg (2018); in front the cliffs |
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| location | in Quedlinburg ; Harz district , Saxony-Anhalt | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 47 '10 " N , 11 ° 8' 13" E | |
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| Type | Layer rib | |
| rock | Sandstone | |
| Age of the rock | Lower Cretaceous | |
The Schlossberg is an elevation in the northern Harz foreland . It is located in Quedlinburg in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt and is the location of the Quedlinburg Abbey .
Geographical location
The Schlossberg rises in the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park - southwest of the old town of Quedlinburg. It falls in the south and east to the Mühlengraben (Mühlgraben) branched off from the Bode . To the west, the Munzenberg joins the Strohberg ( 182.6 m ) on the other side . To the east lies the Ochsenkopf .
Geology and natural spatial allocation
The castle hill, made of sandstone , is part of the Quedlinburg saddle ridge . It is part of the stratified rib landscape of the natural spatial main unit group Northern Harz Foreland and divides it into the Blankenburger and Halberstädter Mulde.
During the uplift of the Variscan clod, which forms the Harz , sediment layers of the Harz foreland were so strongly erected that they broke. The Lower Cretaceous sandstone layers of the Quedlinburger Schlossberg have an incline of about 27 degrees in a south-south-west direction. The sediment layers of the sandstone are sometimes very different. Coarse-grained, more firmly bound layers alternate with fine-grained, rather silty layers. These layers are overlaid by those that are very tightly bound by the deposition of iron and manganese oxides .
A very fine-grained layer is particularly sensitive to the ingress of water. When wet, this layer begins to flow. At the southwestern foot of the mountain, this layer can be seen very clearly in the so-called cliffs . There, large clods of the more firmly bound sandstone have slipped on this flowing layer over the last few decades.
Therefore, extensive security measures have been taken on the retaining walls in recent years . The walls are held in place by anchors set deep in the sandstone . This prevented further slipping for the time being. Extensive construction work is required for basic security.
Buildings
Quedlinburg Abbey
On the geologically unstable base of the castle hill was 936 to advocacy Matilda the widow of the deceased in the same year East Frankish-German king, Henry I , by her son Otto I the pin Quedlinburg founded. It houses the Romanesque collegiate church of St. Servatius , which was essentially built between 1070 and 1129.
More buildings
- Schloßberg 4 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 5 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 6 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 7 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 35 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 36 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 37 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 38 (Quedlinburg)
- Schloßberg 39 (Quedlinburg)
Web links
- The Quedlinburger Schlossberg , on quedlinburg.de