Silberberg (Todtnau)
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| height | 1358.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany | |
| Mountains | Black Forest | |
| Dominance | 1.2 km → Herzogenhorn | |
| Notch height | 90 m ↓ Wolfsgrüble | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 50 '16 " N , 7 ° 59' 47" E | |
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| rock | Gneiss, amphibolite | |
The Silberberg is at a height of 1358.9 m above sea level. NHN (next to the Spießhorn , 1350.8 meters above sea level. NHN ) the most striking peaks of the mountain group to the Duke Horn ( 1415.6 m above sea level. NHN ) in the Black Forest , Baden-Wuerttemberg ( Germany ). It is located about 4 kilometers east of the city of Todtnau .
Location and topography
The central high area of the southern Black Forest is formed by the Feldberg area ( 1493 m above sea level ) in the north and the mountain group around the Herzogenhorn in the south, both separated by the Feldberg pass and the deep trough valley of the upper meadow . Towards the Wiesental, the rocky summit of the Silberberg, which is particularly rocky to the north, drops a good 550 meters in one of the highest steep slopes in the Feldberg area. To the southeast, the mountain is bounded by the upper Prägbach valley. It runs parallel to that of the meadow, but 400 meters higher, which means that the south-east slope is only gently sloping. It goes into the high pastures of the upper Prägbach valley. The wooded north slope is structured by kar-like niches and cliff-interspersed, sometimes ridge-like ridges.
Rocks and minerals
Like almost the entire upper Wiesental, the Silberberg is essentially made up of paragneiss . Also included are some vein- shaped porphyry deposits, which were probably formed towards the end of the Variscan mountain formation , and amphibolites. Both are quite weatherproof and therefore tend to form cliffs. The Silberberg is criss-crossed by several mineral veins with a total length of several kilometers and average thicknesses of up to 1.2 meters. In the quartz - fluorite - barite - calcite - and dolomite -Gängen found mainly galena , chalcopyrite and silver ore . The Silberberg is also the only tremolite site in the Black Forest to date.
Mining
The name of the mountain suggests previous mining for silver. It belongs to the Todtnau mining area, in which silver was mined as early as the early Middle Ages. The oldest written mention of mines at Silberberg dates back to 1028. In the west neighboring Kar room angle was last from 1968 through the union Finstergrund the studs Dr. Tholus Wells excavated to extract fluorite and barite, but operations ceased in 1970.
tourism
A rock path leads through the steep northern slopes of the Silberberg, which was once created by the Black Forest Association , but has since been abandoned, similar to the Alpine path on the Feldberg. The varied path has few exposed passages and is still passable.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Mineralienatlas Deutschland , accessed on May 5, 2012
- ↑ Mineralienatlas Deutschland , accessed on May 5, 2012