Sun bump
| Sun bump | ||
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 Sonnenhübel with the covering king wood |
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| height | 469.1 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Free State of Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 58 '1 " N , 14 ° 46' 22" E | |
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| rock | Phonolite | |
| particularities | Steinklunsen | |
The Sonnenhübel is a 469 meter high mountain in the eastern Lausitzer Bergland in the Free State of Saxony . Better known than the mountain name is the Königsholz , the forest area that almost completely covers the Sonnenhübel. Mountain and forest are in the district of Oderwitz in Upper Lusatia and are still surrounded by the towns of Ruppersdorf , Großhennersdorf and Oberseifersdorf .
Origin of the name
According to a legend, the young Bohemian prince Wenceslaus was ousted by his envious uncle after the death of his father and grew up with a shoemaker in Zittau . When he grew into a man, he revealed himself to be the rightful king. The forest in which this happened was named Königsholz .
In documents, however, the names Konigiz walt and silva nostra regalis are documented. This suggests that the forest used to be used by the Bohemian kings as a hunting and bird hunting ground and that is how it got its name.
history
Until the middle of the 14th century, the royal wood was a royal domain. In 1345, the city of Zittau received the authority from King John of Bohemia to cut wood for building bridges and rebuilding burned-down houses, but it was deprived of ownership and forest rights. Duke Heinrich von Jauer , who had received the city and the surrounding area from King Johann as marriage property, pledged it for 50 marks to a lord of Riedburg. This led to differences between the city and the duke. In 1357 the brothers Heinrich, Johann and Ramvold von Riedburg transferred the rights to the forest for the old sum to the city of Zittau.
The son of John of Bohemia, Charles IV , withdrew the royal wood in 1359 as a dilapidated chamber property. It was not until 1365 that the city was given the opportunity to buy the estate for 600 Schock Prague groschen and one gold mark. At that time, the von Riedburg brothers again registered a claim to the royal wood and tried to emphasize this claim through robbery and murder. In the week of Pentecost in 1368, the Zittau team therefore moved out to catch the robbers. These were hanged on the gallows shortly afterwards in Zittau .
After the Upper Lusatian Pönfall , the estate was withdrawn from the city of Zittau by Ferdinand I and had to be acquired again. From 1952 the State Forestry Company Löbau managed the Oderwitz Revier and thus the Königsholz.
geology
On the northern slope of the Sonnenhübel, phonolite slabs protrude through the ground, which are called Steinklunsen , Steinklunsten or simply Klunsen , similar to the Steinklunsen near Beiersdorf . Together with the Birkberg and the Geiersberg , these rock formations at the Sonnenhübel form an overburden and the eastern edge of the Oderwitz basin . Coarse weathering debris from these plates, together with nutrient-poor Ranker brown earth, covers the upper slopes of the mountain. On the lower slopes there are occasional phonolite rubble, but due to a layer of loess clay and the influence of backwater, there are also brown soils with a medium nutrient content such as pseudogley .
Flora and fauna
The Königsholz covers an area of about 450 hectares and covers the Sonnenhübel almost completely, but also has a northern extension. Near-natural mixed deciduous forest is mainly represented. Nevertheless, there are differences in the vegetation due to local climatic and soil-related deviations. On the south-western slope, for example, there is mainly a beech forest mixed with ash and sycamore maple . In the damp northern foothills of the forest there are mixed stands of birch , aspen and English oak in places .
Due to the nutrient-poor soils, the soil flora is correspondingly poor in species. There are only common deciduous forest plants such as golden nettle , wood sorrel , land riding grass or pipe grass . More rarely, however occur melica uniflora , Hasenlattich or forest fescue on.
Protected areas
On January 14th, 2009 the area around the Steinklunsen was declared a nest protection zone Steinklunsen in Königsholz . The aim is to protect the breeding grounds of the specially protected and endangered bird species eagle owl , peregrine falcon , stonechat and others.
The area around the summit is protected as part of the FFH area basalt and phonolite peaks of eastern Upper Lusatia with the state's internal registration number 030E.
Todays use
Today the Königsholz is mainly used for forestry as a wood harvesting area and as a hunting area. The forest is also used as a recreational area and is popular with runners and cyclists because of its ring roads.
literature
- The south-eastern Upper Lusatia with Zittau and the Zittau Mountains (= values of the German homeland . Volume 16). 2nd Edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1971, p. 40f.
- District of Görlitz: Map of the HSZ "Steinklunsen im Königsholz" from January 14, 2009
- Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology, management plan and its abridged version of the FFH area “Basalt and Phonolithkuppen der Eastern Oberlausitz”, MaP short version Text MaP short version map
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Johann Georg Theodor Graesse: The Sagenschatz the Kingdom of Saxony . Schönfeld, 1855, p. 530 ( digitized [accessed April 17, 2010]).
- ^ Johann Gottlieb Korschelt: History of the local rule of Oderwitz . In: Prof. Dr. EE Struve (Ed.): New Lusatian Magazine . tape 23 . Oettel, Görlitz 1866, p. 394 f . ( Digitized version [accessed April 17, 2010]).
- ↑ Landkreis Görlitz: General decree of the Landkreis Görlitz for the protection of breeding and living areas of strictly and specially protected vertebrate species. January 14, 2009, accessed April 18, 2010 .
- ↑ Dresden Regional Council, Environmental Department, Bautzen Branch, Section 6.2.5 Nature Conservation and Landscape Management: Basic data on the FFH area “Basalt and phonolite peaks of eastern Upper Lusatia”. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 18, 2010 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
