Stabenberg
| Stabenberg | ||
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 The Stabenberg, photographed from Deidesheim |
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| height | 496 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Königsbach on the Weinstrasse ; City of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Haardt ( Palatinate Forest ) | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 23 '40 " N , 8 ° 8' 11" E | |
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| rock | Red sandstone | |
| particularities | Lookout point | |
The Stabenberg , in the literature also Staweberg , Steffen- or Steffelsberg , in the local dialect called Staweberg or Stäweberg , is a 496 m high mountain in the Haardt , the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). There is a lookout point on the mountain .
geography
location
The Stabenberg rises in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve , in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park and in the middle part of the Haardt mountain range in the area of the urban district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse near the Königsbach district . Its summit is about 2 km northwest of Königsbach on its forest area, 2.4 km north-northwest of the district of Gimmeldingen , 4 km west-southwest of the city of Deidesheim and 3.5 km northeast of the municipality of Lindenberg . The Mußbach , a left tributary of the Rehbach , flows southwest to south past the mountain , north of the Weinbach , a left tributary of the Marlach . The Zeiselbach spring rises on the eastern flank , the water of which reaches the Marlach from the right via various irrigation ditches.
Parts of the Haardtrand bird sanctuary (VSG no. 6514-401; 147.28 km²) are located on the Stabenberg .
Natural allocation
The Stabenberg belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area, which is classified as a third-order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook on the natural structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its subsequent publications . Looking at the internal structure of the natural area , the Stabenberg belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest and here to the Haardt mountain range, which separates the Palatinate Forest from the Upper Rhine Plain .
In summary, the natural spatial allocation of the Stabenberg follows the following system:
- Greater region 1st order: Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
- Greater region 2nd order: Palatinate-Saarland layer level land
- Greater region 3rd order: Palatinate Forest
- 4th order region (main unit): Middle Palatinate Forest
- 5th order region: Haardt
Watershed
The Stabenberg is the most easterly low mountain range of the local watershed between the catchment areas of the Speyerbach in the south and the Isenach in the north. The watershed runs from Stabenberg mainly to the northwest over Eckkopf ( 516 m ), Steinkopf ( 528 m ), Hoher Stoppelkopf ( 566 m ), Drachenfels ( 571 m ) and Engelskopf ( 441 m ).
history
After French troops had conquered today's Palatinate with the areas to the left of the Rhine in the 1790s , the occupiers used the Stabenberg for optical communication with a "Dillegraph", as the technique of optical telegraphy developed by Claude Chappe was called in the Palatinate dialect .
On the ascent to the summit, there are historical boundary stones and Loogfelsen at four locations , which were marked in 1694 and 1752.
Lookout point
On the Stabenberg there is a compact lookout tower , which is also called the Stabenberg Tower or Stabenbergwarte and is protected as a cultural monument. It is the first structure that was erected by the Palatinate Forest Association . Planning began in 1902; the plans came from Otto Volker, who had also designed the club badge of the Palatinate Forest Association. The control room was inaugurated on September 26, 1904. The construction costs amounted to 1725 Reichsmarks .
The stone substructure of the control room, which has a floor area of around 3 × 3 m, is closed off at a height of around 5 m by a viewing platform , the underside of which serves as the interior ceiling. Originally there was a kind of wooden pavilion a good 3 m high, so that the control room was visible from the Rhine plain . But as early as the first half of the 20th century, the wooden attachment that had become damaged by weathering was removed and replaced with a simple iron railing. A stone staircase attached to the outside leads to the building made of bossed ashlars. The masonry of the substructure encloses a small space that is intended as a shelter. It is accessible via a few steps and a doorway. The total height of the building including open foundations and railings is only about 6 m today.
In view of the modest height, the building is no longer noticeable from a distance because of the surrounding - although not very dense - coniferous trees .
The observation tower offers a view of the Upper Rhine Plain , including the mountainous villages of Königsbach an der Weinstrasse and Gimmeldingen and the Odenwald on the other side of the plain , as well as of nearby parts of the Haardt.
Traffic and walking
To the northwest past the Stabenberg leads from Wachenheim in the northeast past the Kurpfalzpark to Lindenberg in the southwest the Kreisstraße 16. From this road branches off at the southeastern edge of the Kurpfalzpark, the K 13, which runs southwest past the mountain to Gimmeldingen. From this road in turn the K 21 separates, which reaches the state road 516 southeast of the mountain and in this direction past Königsbach . The latter runs east of the mountain in the Upper Rhine Plain through Deidesheim and Forst on the Weinstrasse to Wachenheim. Thus the mountain can be avoided.
The summit is not accessible to traffic and can only be reached on marked hiking trails ( signposts: red point ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c LANIS: Stabenberg on a topographic map from the map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration. Retrieved May 16, 2017 .
- ↑ Circular hike 60th Wanderportal Pfalz (Ed.), Accessed on June 8, 2011 .
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Federal Institute for Regional Studies: Geographical Land Survey. The natural space units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps , sheet 160: Landau i. d. Pfalz (Adalbert Pemöller, 1969; 47 p.).
- ↑ Helmut Beeger u. a .: The landscapes of Rheinhessen-Pfalz - naming and spatial delimitation. In: Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, Issue 2, Trier 1989, pp. 327–359.
- ↑ Tower 16. Wanderportal Pfalz (Ed.), Accessed on June 8, 2011 .
- ↑ a b Informational directory of cultural monuments, district-free city of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse. General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate , 2018, accessed on January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Stabenberg Tower. Hiking in the Palatinate (Ed.), Accessed on January 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Palatinate Forest Association: information board at the lookout point .