Sonneberg (mountain)
| Sonneberg | ||
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| height | 401 m above sea level NN | |
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Germany , Saxony ( Görlitz district ) |
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| Mountains | Upper Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 1 '24 " N , 14 ° 30' 3" E | |
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| rock | Lusatian granodiorite | |
The Sonneberg , also called Buchberg, is 401.0 m above sea level after the Fuchsberg (422 m) and the Hahneberg (410 m) as well as an unnamed elevation 403.2 m above sea level (approx. 600 m north of the Sonneberg) the fourth highest mountain in the corridors of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg (Saxony).
Location and name
The Sonneberg is located approx. 500 meters southwest of the district of the same name, Sonneberg, in a wooded area near the Czech border, which is known as the " border forest ". To the west, the mountain falls into the Fugauer Zipfel to the valley of the Weißbach .
The new settlers of the Spremberg district called the wooded mountain "sun (n) mountain" or "mountain of the sun" because the daytime star set late in their forest corner over its treetops in the west. The alternative name Buchberg is derived from the "beech" which, as red beech, still shapes the forest. In earlier times the mountain was named after its owners Schindler and Wauer, farmers resident in Sonneberg, also "Schindlersberg" or "Wauersberg". On old maps it was already recorded as "Sonneberg" after the district of today's city of Neusalza-Spremberg, which was created around 1800, was named.
Geology and geography
The Sonneberg represents one of the highest elevations of the 15 hectare forest area mentioned. The wooded mountain has a flattened crest on which isolated blocks of granodiorite lie. Its tip consists of nepheline basalt and shows a geological peculiarity in the Neusalza-Spremberg area. A former quarry on the higher elevation to the north on the northeast slope clearly shows the columns of nepheline basalt that were created when the lava solidified. They originated millions of years ago in the geological formation of the Tertiary and document that volcanic processes took place here at that time. The deep quarry, filled with water, resembles a crater lake.
The Sonneberg protrudes like a spur from the district of Sonneberg into the western valley depression of the city - formerly Spremberger Niederdorf - which is crossed by the Dresden-Zittau railway line. In a westerly direction, the forest of the Sonneberg merges seamlessly into the forest of the now-defunct Czech village of Fugau . In the pre-Reformation period, this forest was also known as the “Spremberger Forest”. Waterlogging locations formed on the clay surfaces of the Sonneberg foothills. Several spring arms gather here to form the so-called “Sonnebergwasser”, also known as “Teichflössel”, which feeds several fish ponds and today's forest and adventure pool in the town towards the Neuspremberg district . A dirt road from the western half of Neusalza-Spremberg leads through a railway bridge and subsequent pastures to the Sonneberg.
literature
- Walter Heinich : Spremberg. Attempt on a local history of the parish village Spremberg in the Saxon Upper Lusatia . Schirgiswalde / Spremberg 1918.
- Lutz Mohr : Historical outline of the city of Neusalza-Spremberg in Upper Lusatia. From the beginning to the beginning of the 20th century . Greifswald u. Neusalza-Spremberg 1976/77 (manuscript, reproduced).
- Lutz Mohr: NEUSALZA-SPREMBERG - A small town in Upper Lusatia. Highlights from history and legend. Special edition No. 1 of the series: History and stories from Neusalza-Spremberg. Greifswald u. Neusalza-Spremberg: self-published 2012
- Theodor Schütze (Ed.): Between Strohmberg, Czorneboh and Kottmar (= values of our homeland . Volume 24). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1974.