Stolzenberg (Rothaar Mountains)

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Stolzenberg
height 623.7  m above sea level NHN
location near Hesborn , Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany )
Mountains Hallenberger Hügelland , foothills of the Hohe Seite , Rothaargebirge
Dominance 0.35 km
Notch height 32.8 m
Coordinates 51 ° 9 '34 "  N , 8 ° 37' 37"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 9 '34 "  N , 8 ° 37' 37"  E
Stolzenberg (Rothaargebirge) (North Rhine-Westphalia)
Stolzenberg (Rothaar Mountains)
particularities Wall remains of a medieval castle on the summit plateau
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The Stolzenberg is a 623.7  m high, wooded mountain near Hesborn , a district of Hallenberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis , North Rhine-Westphalia .

Geographical location

The mountain is part of the eastern roof of the Rothaargebirge in the eastern part of the Sauerland-Rothaargebirge Nature Park in the Hesborn Forest. Its summit is about 1 km north of the center of Hesborn. The 757.7  m high Bollerberg with the 15 m high Bollerbergturm is about 1.3 km to the west. Along the western edge of pride Bergs the Talwasser that after flowing through of Hesborn at the southern exit in the runs in a generally southeast direction Nuhne influx Olfe (also Ölfe) opens .

Natural allocation

The Stolzenberg is in the immediate vicinity of the montane natural spatial unit Hohe Seite (333.7) of the main unit “ Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland )” (333). However, it is already just under the natural area “Hallenberger Hügelland” (332.41), which belongs to the sub-unit “ Medebacher Bucht ” (332.4) in the main unit “ Ostsauerländer Gebirgsrand ” (332) .

Castle Stolzenburg

On the mountain are the remnants of the ramparts of a medieval castle that was designated as destroyed in 1694, under whose protection the settlements of Hesborn and Wolmerkusen (today desolate ) were created. From the early 14th century until at least 1415 this castle seat of the Lords of Wolmerkusen that the was Electoral Cologne Burgmannen belonged Hall Mountain. Soon afterwards they migrated to Waldecksche , were subsequently referred to as those of Wolmeringhausen and died out in the male line in 1635.

Footnotes

  1. Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( information ) ( digital terrain model )
  2. https://www.hesborn.net/geschichte1
  3. August Heldmann: About the headquarters of the Wolmeringhausen family. In: Journal for patriotic history and antiquity , Volume 46, Münster, 1888, pp. 96-106 (here 104)