Stellberg (Sohre)
| Stellberg | ||
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 Stellberg from the north |
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| height | 495 m above sea level NN | |
| location | near Wattenbach ; District of Kassel , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Söhre | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 13 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 34 ′ 24 ″ E | |
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| rock | Basalt , clay , sandstone | |
| particularities | near Stellbergsee | |
The Stellberg is about 495 m above sea level. NN high mountain of the Söhre . It is located near Wattenbach in the northern Hessian district of Kassel .
geography
location
The Stellberg is located approximately in the center of the Söhre in the western part of the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) . It rises between Wellerode in the northeast, Wattenbach in the east and Eiterhagen in the southeast, all of which belong to the municipality of Söhrewald , and Wollrode in the west, which belongs to the municipality of Guxhagen .
The Mülmisch tributary Wattenbach rises east of the mountain peak , south the Mülmisch tributary Schliergraben , west of the Fulda tributary Schwarzenbach and northwest of the Wahlebach tributary Stellbachsgraben . About 1.5 km west-southwest of the mountain summit is Stellbergsee , which was created in 1968 as a residual open pit lake .
Natural allocation
The Stellberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), in the main unit Fulda-Werra-Bergland (357) and in the subunit Kaufunger Wald und Söhre (357.7) to the natural area Söhre (357.70).
Mountain height
The Stellberg is around 495 m high; the information in the referenced table of the eco-path refers to the height in meters above sea level (NN). In the map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (BfN) a total of three dashed contour lines can be seen above 480 m , so that the top line could stand for 483.25 m and this value for the approximate mountain height; the information provided by the BfN relates to the height in meters above mean sea level (NHN). The often given height of 476 or 476.2 m refers to a measuring point that is about 230 m north of the mountain peak on a branch in the forest.
Geology and history
The Stellberg summit consists of a basalt layer that is no more than 50 m thick , overlying several layers of clay and sandstone below . Underneath, in turn, there are layers of lignite that are interrupted by several faults .
Mining was already practiced around 1800. The dismantling of what is now Stellbergsee ( Zeche Stellberg ) lasted from 1823 to 1967 . The Alte Grube mining area (in the east) was developed in the second half of the 19th century, followed by the Karlsstollen ( Tiefenrod colliery ; in the north) from 1921 to 1930 and the Wiesenschacht (in the south-west) from 1932/33 to 1962 .
Until 1967, the Stellberg in days and underground mining lignite and partly glossy coal mined; the latter was located at the transitions of the brown coal seams to about perpendicular magma - chimneys .
The coal deposit on Stellberg had a volume of an estimated 10 million cubic meters, of which around half was mined. The main buyers were the Kassel thermal power station (until it was converted to hard coal ) and Spinnfaser AG .
The remains of mining include buildings from the former Stellberg and Wattenbach collieries , iron masts and reinforced concrete foundations of a cable car and the Stellbergsee .
Transport links and hiking
State road 3236 ( Wellerode - Wattenbach - Eiterhagen ) runs east past the Stellberg ; this crosses the L 3460 ( Wollrode –Wattenbach– St. Ottilien ) north of Wattenbach , which leads past the mountain to the south. There are three parking spaces for hikers along the L 3460 , from which you can hike to the top of the mountain on forest and forest paths. The Märchenlandweg hiking trail runs over the south and east flanks of the mountain and crosses the Wildbahn hiking trail west-southwest in the direction of the Stellbergsee . The approximately 9.5 km long Eco Path Mining in the Söhre nature trail leads around the mountain , on which you can find out about the mining history of the Stellberg using several display boards along the way.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Table for coal mining on Stellberg (mountain height 495 m above sea level : 1st paragraph), on eco-pfade.de (PDF; 323.3 KB)
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d e f Flyer Eco path mining in the Söhre - main page with excerpt from TK 25 (sheet 4723) of the Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation, on eco-pfade.de
- ↑ a b c Eco path mining in the Söhre - coal mining on Stellberg , on eco-pfade.de
- ↑ Eco path mining in the Söhre - Karlstollen / Zeche Tiefenrod , on eco-pfade.de
- ↑ Eco path mining in the Söhre - Wiesenschacht , on eco-pfade.de