Stinkesberg
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| height | 95 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Ratingen , Mettmann district , North Rhine-Westphalia | |
| Mountains | Bergisches Land | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '57 " N , 6 ° 51' 7" E | |
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The Stinkesberg is 95 m above sea level. NN high mountain in the North Rhine-Westphalian city of Ratingen . It is located in the Oberbusch forest north of the city center, east of the Tiefenbroich district and southeast of the Lintorf district .
Geography and Conservation
The Stinkesberg drops steeply on three sides and is surrounded by several hiking trails. It is located within the landscape protection area Ratinger Stadtwald Süd-West (LSG 4607-0012).
In the area of the dome-like summit and in the slope areas there are several boulders. These were created by chemical processes in the Tertiary and are protected as a natural monument 8 lignite quarzite Am Stinkenberg (ND B 2.6-7). They are also recorded as geotope rock blocks on the Stinkenberg (GK 4607-001) in the geotope register of the Geological Service NRW . Since storm damage caused by hurricane Kyrill in January 2007, the hilltop has only been covered by bushes, the stones can be seen under the bushes and are no longer exposed.
etymology
The mountain is referred to in the Topographia Ducatus Montani from 1715 as "Kigberg". The area directly bordering the forest is called "Am Kicksberg". Because of its quartzite blocks, the mountain is likely to be called "Stinkesberg" ('stone' = 'stin', 'kes', 'gen' or 'ken' ending = plural form or diminutive). “Stinky” probably means “pebbles” or “stones”.
history
Sagas and mythology
Since the 17th century, there have been several legends and anecdotes about the mountain, among others in connection with the Thirty Years War as well as horror tales and murderous stories.
Since 1933, the Stinkesberg appeared more and more in the publications of local history researchers, was stylized as a " Germanic thing and execution site" and integrated into school lessons. The unproven theories about an alleged pre-Christian place of sacrifice even resulted that an expansion of the autobahn was disallowed because the place apparently as a meeting place for the Hitler Youth , for solstice celebrations or Schlageter should be used -Kulte. The Düsseldorf Gauleitung wrote: “The previous draft [...] has the intolerable disadvantage that it endangers the old Germanic cult site (Stinkesberg), which is to be turned into a sanctuary of the movement (approval is already available) that their practical effectiveness becomes impossible. ”So the highway route was moved a few kilometers.
To this day, the mountain is always a meeting place for role players, Gothic and New Wave fans, occultists and esotericists, and sometimes for right-wing extremists from the region. It is considered a "mystical place".
Plane crashes
On December 22, 1955, an English passenger aircraft of the type DC3 Dakota crashed on the approach to Düsseldorf-Lohausen airport on the Stinkesberg. All three occupants, two pilots and a stewardess, were killed.
On November 8, 1992, a single-engine sports machine crashed on Stinkesberg. The pilot was killed.
literature
- Bastian Fleermann: folk tale or folk myth? The Stinkesberg cult site in Ratingen and the history of its reception , in: Die Quecke. Ratinger and Angerländer Heimatblätter 74 (2004), pp. 78-103.
- Karl Heinz Ruthmann: Miocene quartzites on the Stinkesberg, in the rest of Angerland and in its peripheral areas , in: Die Quecke, Vol. 43 (1973), p. 24.
- Erich Krumme: Germanic courts and places of worship in the forests of the Angerland , in: The Quecke. Ratinger and Angerländer Heimatblätter, Vol. 24, 5th year (1955), pp. 6-8.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The landscape plan of the Mettmann district. Textual representations and stipulations as well as explanations. (PDF) Kreis Mettmann, 2012, p. 381 , accessed on November 14, 2016 .