Steinberg near Wernesgrün
| Steinberg | ||
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 The lookout tower on the Steinberg. |
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| height | 659 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 '37 " N , 12 ° 27' 55" E | |
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| rock | Andalusite mica slate | |
| Development | 1903 by the mountain association for Rodewisch and the surrounding area | |
| particularities | Steinberg Tower ( AT ) | |
The Steinberg is 659 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the western Ore Mountains . Alongside the Kuhberg , it is one of the two towering elevations in the vicinity of the Steinberg municipality in the Vogtland district of the Free State of Saxony, which is named after it .
geography
The Steinberg is located on the southwestern Kontakthof of the Kirchberger Granite and geographically belongs to the Ore Mountains. It is the westernmost Ore Mountains mountain, the 585 m high Jüdenstein, about 1800 m further west, also belongs geographically to the Vogtland. In administrative terms, the Steinberg has always been in the Vogtland, because the historical border between the Vogtland and the Erzgebirge district of the Electorate of Saxony runs directly to the east of the mountain.
geology
The Steinberg consists mainly of andalusite mica schist. The rock is exposed in some places in the area of the summit.
history
With the 17.5 m high Steinbergturm built in wood, which was inaugurated together with the refuge on May 24, 1903, the touristic development of the Steinberg between Wernesgrün and Wildenau began . In the following years, the refuge was expanded and expanded into an accommodation house. In 1945 the mountain association was dissolved and in 1951 the municipality of Wildenau became a new legal entity. In 1994 the municipalities of Wernesgrün, Wildenau and Rothenkirchen merged to form the municipality of Steinberg.
Routes to the summit
- On the red marked main hiking trail from Wernesgrün over the Plitzschenhäuser to the summit (approx. 3 km).
Nature reserve
The Steinberg nature reserve has a roughly rectangular shape, its east-west extension is about 2000, the north-south extension about 1100 m. It begins east of the Steinberg and extends to the west almost to the Rebesgrün site. It was expelled on March 30, 1961.
literature
- Reinhart Heppner , Jörg Brückner , Helmut Schmidt: Saxon-Bohemian panoramic mountains of the western Ore Mountains in words and pictures; with tourist information . Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2000, ISBN 3-89570-593-4 , p. 38-39 .
- Reinhart Heppner, Jörg Brückner: Selected panoramic mountains of the Saxon-Bohemian Ore Mountains . 2nd amended edition. Geiger, Horb am Neckar 2008, ISBN 978-3-86595-206-6 , p. 40-41 .
- Steinberg. In: The eastern Vogtland (= values of the German homeland . Volume 59). 1st edition. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Successor, Weimar 1998, ISBN 3-7400-0938-1 , pp. 97-98.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Steinberg, a special hiking destination in the eastern Vogtland. Steinberg municipal administration, accessed on September 8, 2014 .
- ↑ Vogtland-Aschberg area. Hiking map with information for winter sports 1: 50,000 . Tourist, Berlin / Leipzig 1977.
- ↑ Nature reserves in Saxony. (Excel table) C16. (No longer available online.) Saxon State Office for Environment, Agriculture and Geology , January 1, 2014, archived from the original on September 3, 2014 ; Retrieved September 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- 100 years of the Steinberg Tower (1903–2003). Municipal administration Steinberg
- Steinberg. In: Mineralienatlas Lexikon. Stefan Schorn u. a.