Soles mountains
The Sohlener Berge are a range of hills in the south of the city of Magdeburg . They were created by a terminal moraine during the Saale glaciation.
Location and history
They are located between the Magdeburg district of Beyendorf-Sohlen to the west and south and the district of Westerhüsen to the east and are largely part of the northeastern Salbke district . They rise to a height of 97.8 meters above sea level . The Sülze runs to the west at the foot of the Sohlener Mountains . The north-south extension is about two kilometers, the west-east extension about one kilometer. South of the Sohlener Mountains, separated from them by a valley, is the 89 meter high Großer Riesenberg . To the north of the Großer Riesenberg, the area is traversed by an old ravine that runs from Beyendorf in the west to the southeast. There are suspicions that the ravine is related to the transport of salt obtained from the brawn in the direction of the Elbe . For a long time there was a transshipment point for salt on the Elbe in the Pötritz desert area .
During the Second World War , at least from 1941 to 1945, the Heavy Reserve Battery Flaka Division 629 , which was also known as the Flak Sohlener Berg , was located on the Großer Riesenberg . After American units had advanced to the Magdeburg airfield north of the Sohlener Berge on April 11, 1945 and reached the banks of the Elbe on April 12, they set up artillery batteries on the ridge. From here, at least on April 15 and 16, the districts of Magdeburg still held by German troops were shelled.
On August 23, 1975 the competitions of the 6th international motorcycle all-round event took place in the Sohlener mountains, starting from the Tonschacht sports field in Westerhüsen. In the presence of Saxony-Anhalt's Minister for the Environment and Agriculture, Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), an environmental project was started in the Sohlener Mountains on May 20, 2019, which includes the resumption of sheep grazing in parts of the area.
Flora and fauna
The partly wooded ridge is also home to plant species such as the field delphinium ( Consolida regalis ) and the thorny restorer ( Ononis spinosa ). In addition, however, the occurrence of Pontic plants, i.e. plants that are actually more native to the Black Sea area , is also described.
In the 1850s, the botanist Paul Ascherson visited the Sohlener Berge. He published the botanical finds made by him and his colleagues in a work on the flora around Magdeburg in 1864. A distinction was made between Beiendorfer Mountains and Sohlschen Mountains . Annual ziest , cowwort , sand cinquefoil , steppe fennel , Venus crest and meadow sage were found in the Beiendorfer mountains . For the Sohlschen mountains were specified: Field Nigella , Upright Ziest , Ausdauernder rape yolk , Galium glaucum , Real Wundklee , Brachypodium pinnatum , ordinary Katzenpfötchen , Carlina vulgaris , Prunella grandiflora , Hill Meier , Kali Turgida , sticky chickweed , Green-winged Orchid , burdock -Igelsame , bulbous bluegrass , carrots shaped adhesive umbel , ear spoon-campion , wild thyme silk , bupleurum falcatum and Greater knapweed .
The occurrence of the blue-green mosaic damsel and the blood-red darter was found in dragonfly species in the Sohlener Mountains .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Helmut Menzel, The Flak Regiment 52 and the Air Defense of Magdeburg 1939 to 1945 , Magado-Selbstverlag Burg, 2018, page 126 f.
- ^ "Then the sky turned blood red ...", The Destruction of Magdeburg on January 16, 1945 , editor Matthias Puhle , Magdeburg, 1995, ISBN 3-930030-12-8 , page 132
- ↑ USSR team victory in motorcycle all -around in Neues Deutschland on August 25, 1975, page 8
- ↑ Friedrich Großhennig, Ortschronik von Westerhüsen in the Magdeburg-SO district , manuscript in the Magdeburg city archive, call number 80 / 1035n, page 3
- ^ Paul Ascherson, Flora of the Province of Brandenburg, the Altmark and the Duchy of Magdeburg, Third Department, Special Flora of Magdeburg, Verlag von August von Hirschwald, Berlin, 1864
- ↑ Rosemarie Steglich, Paul-Ludwig Gentz, Libellenatlas , State Capital Magdeburg Environment Agency, 2002
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 23.2 " N , 11 ° 38 ′ 40.6" E