Sternberg (Swabian Alb)

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Sternberg
Sternberg near Gomadingen

Sternberg near Gomadingen

height 844.3  m above sea level NHN
location near Gomadingen , Reutlingen district , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany )
Mountains Swabian Alb
Coordinates 48 ° 23 '36 "  N , 9 ° 22' 47"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '36 "  N , 9 ° 22' 47"  E
Sternberg (Swabian Alb) (Baden-Württemberg)
Sternberg (Swabian Alb)
particularities Sternberg Tower ( AT )

The Sternberg is a volcano that was extinct in the Miocene (17-11 million years ago) and belongs to the large group of more than 350 former volcanoes (diatrems) known as the " Swabian volcano ". The volcano and its basalt chimney could be detected in 2009 using the most modern geophysical measuring methods. As a hard one , it is now the second highest mountain in the Münsinger Alb . There is an observation tower and a transmission mast on its summit .

geography

The Sternberg is located above the towns of Gomadingen and Offenhausen in the Reutlingen district of Baden-Württemberg . Its summit is almost 200 meters above the Große Lauter . The shortest hiking routes (from the center of Gomadingen or Offenhausen ) are around one and a half kilometers long.

Sternberg Tower

In 1905 the first observation tower was built on the mountain. However, it was given up again in the 1940s due to its dilapidation. In 1953, a hundred meters further east, the 32 m high new Sternbergturm was built , a clad wooden tower on a solid base with a closed viewing platform. On the site of the old tower, the Sternberg Wanderheim was built between 1980 and 1982 and , like the tower, is maintained by the Swabian Alb Association . In 2011 the old wooden cladding of the tower was replaced by a new one made of Douglas fir .

  • The Sternberg Tower

  • View of the old Sternberg tower.
    (Photo taken before 1914)

  • Sternberg volcano near Gomadingen , slightly bushy juniper heather on the southern slope

Long-distance hiking trail

The Black Forest-Swabian-Alb-Allgäu-Weg , also known as main hiking trail 5 , leads over the Sternberg . It is a long-distance hiking trail of the Swabian Alb Association .

Web links

Commons : Sternberg  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Baier: The Urach-Kirchheimer volcanic area of ​​the Swabian Alb. In: Aufschluss 71 (4), pp. 224–233, 2020.
  2. ↑ a b Sternbergturm near Gomadingen - information from the Swabian Alb Association
  3. ↑ a b Wanderheim Sternberg - information from the Swabian Alb Association
  4. ↑ Reutlinger General-Anzeiger: New face for a landmark. In: www.gea.de. Retrieved July 6, 2016 .