Sollstedter Warte
| Sollstedter Warte | ||
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 Sollstedter Warte above Kleinkeula |
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| height | 487.1 m | |
| location | Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis , Thuringia | |
| Mountains | Dün , Thuringian Basin (with edge plates) | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '53 " N , 10 ° 28' 59" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone | |
The Sollstedter Warte is 487.1 m above sea level. NHN a mountain in the northern Unstrut-Hainich district ( Thuringia ) and the location of a former mediaeval control room.
geography
The mountain is located immediately west of the small towns of Kleinkeula and Sollstedt in the municipality of Menteroda and southeast of Hüpstedt on the plateau of the eastern Dün , about 11 kilometers north of Mühlhausen . The state road L 2038 leads from Eigenrode to Keula to the south-east of the mountain peak .
The mountain range is almost three kilometers long and runs in a south-west-north-east direction. In the southwest is the Kalte Berg (475.6 m), which is mostly recorded in topographical maps today , a southeastern branch is the Steinberg (approx. 472.0 m) on the edge of the Mühlhäuser Hardt , part of the Mühlhausen city forest. The Sollstedter Warte is forested in the northwest ( Wartholz ), in the east and south mainly used for agriculture. Today, various hiking trails lead across the mountain area, for example the Barbarossaweg . From the summit area you have a view over the heights of the Dün and the northwestern Thuringian basin .
History
Since the Middle Ages, the historical boundaries between the Free Imperial City of Mühlhausen in the south (with the town of Sollstedt), the Electoral Mainz Eichsfeld in the northwest (with Hüpstedt ) and the Saxon-Gothache exclave Kleinkeula in the northeast have run across the entire mountain range . The state territory of Schwarzburg-Sondershausen joined immediately to the east . Various Landwehr (Landwehr) emerged along these borders , at the Mühlhausen urban area the Mühlhäuser Landgraben and to the west of Kleinkeula a landgraben was connected to the north, which presumably continued over the Zaunröden in Electoral Saxony to the Dünwald as Sondershäuser Landwehr (also Schwarburger Landwehr ) and from there to the east located Rehunger Knick.
To secure an old road crossing, the now called Sollstedter Warte (or Mühlhäuser Warte) was built on the Mühlhäuser Landgraben, of which there are no structural remains. A 4 m high and 33 × 39 m large oval terrace, which is surrounded by a ditch, is clearly visible in the area. A small round hill with a diameter of 12 meters at the Hohe Warte on the Hüpstedter district indicates another observation tower, which was mentioned several times in the 13th and 14th centuries and which is believed to have existed before the Mühlhausen Landgraben was built. The Scharzburg control room is said to have been not far from the Sollstedter control room on the Schwarzburg border , but further information on this control room is not available.
It is not known to what extent a high medieval manor in the nearby village of Sollstedt was connected to the border train.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, different pages
- ^ Paul Grimm and Wolfgang Timpel: The prehistoric and early historical fortifications of the Worbis district. In: Eichsfelder Heimathefte special edition, Worbis 1966, p. 47
- ↑ Historical map of the Saxon office of Langensalza from 1754
- ↑ Levin von Wintzingeroda-Knorr : Die Wüstungen des Eichsfeldes: Directory of the desert areas, prehistoric ramparts, mines, courts of law and waiting areas within the districts of Duderstadt, Heiligenstadt, Mühlhausen and Worbis. O. Hendel, Göttingen 1903, p. 971
