Stoppelsberg
| Stoppelsberg | ||
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 View from the Heussner Tower on the Mengshäuser Kuppe |
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| height | 523.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Neukirchen ; District of Hersfeld-Rotenburg , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Fulda-Haune-Tafelland | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 45 '6 " N , 9 ° 42' 4" E | |
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| Type | Erosion remnants of a volcano | |
| rock | basalt | |
| Age of the rock | Oligocene or Miocene | |
| Development | Forest and forest paths | |
| particularities | - Hauneck Castle (hilltop) - Lange Steine (mountain foot) - Sinzigburg (mountain foot) |
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The Stoppelsberg is 523.9 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Fulda-Haune-Tafelland , which is part of the north-west roof of the Rhön there . It is located in the municipality of Haunetal between Neukirchen and Ober- and Unterstoppel in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district of Hesse . It is the erosion residue of a former volcano. Its mountain name is derived from the Old High German stouf (for rocks).
The Stoppelsberg is known nationwide as the location of the Hauneck castle ruins (on the hilltop), as the site of the Lange Steine natural monument (at the south-west foot) and as such the cultural monument of the Sinzigburg castle ruins (at the west- south- west foot).
geography
location
The Stoppelsberg, which belongs to the Kuppenrhön (north and north-west part of the Rhön), is located in East Hesse between the Knüll in the north-west and the main part of the Kuppenrhön in the east-south-east and between the Vogelsberg in the south-west and the Seulingswald in the north-north-east.
The Stoppelsberg rises in the municipality of Haunetal . Its summit rises above the districts of Neukirchen (north) and Ober- and Unterstoppel (north and south-east) and Rhina (north-west). The Haune , a right tributary of the Fulda, flows west at its feet . The small Ilmesbach rises on the eastern flank and flows past the Ilmesmühle and, like the Hardgraben, which swells northeast of the mountain near Oberstoppel, is a right tributary of the Haune.
Natural allocation
The Stoppelsberg forms a singularity of the 5th to 5th in the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), in the main unit Fulda-Haune-Tafelland (355), in the subunit Haune-plateau (355.3) and in the natural area Buchenau plateau (355.32) 7th order. To the southwest, west to northwest, the landscape drops into the Lower Haunetal (355.312), part of the Haunetal (355.31) natural area . To the southeast and east it leads into the natural area Soisberger Kuppenrhön (353.22), which in the main unit Vorder- und Kuppenrhön (353) belongs to the subunit Kuppenrhön (353.2).
geology
From a geological point of view, the top of the Stoppelsberg, like that of many other mountains of the Kuppenrhön, is the remainder of a volcanic vent that was formed in the Oligocene or Miocene . The actual volcanic mountain that this chimney once fed has been completely removed again. The chimney filling is made of basalt and has been prepared over the course of the last millions of years from a layered landscape that was formed in sedimentary rocks of the Triassic . On the flanks and in the vicinity of the stubble there are therefore siliciclastic sedimentary rocks of the red sandstone . The basalt of the dome, as it appears, for example, at the base of the keep of Hauneck Castle , is fissured like a column . This fissure was created when the magma in the chimney slowly cooled.
Flora and landscape protection
The Stoppelsberg is forested. Basalt weathered here to form fertile loam soil , on which a rich flora, for example with hazel root , lily of the valley , Solomon's seals , woodruff and tooth root, thrives under the deciduous forest . On the mountain are parts of the landscape protection area Stoppelsberg with Ilmestal ( CDDA -Nr. 378699; designated 1972; 7.5789 km² ).
Castles
Hauneck castle ruins
On the top of the Stoppelsberg stands the ruins of Hauneck Castle , which was probably built in the 14th century. Are preserved remains of the keep , walls and Palas . There is a trigonometric point on the keep, which is based on basalt columns . From the castle you can see, among other things, the previously mentioned Hessian low mountain ranges and the former inner-German border , today's border between Hesse and Thuringia.
Sinzigburg castle ruins
At the west-south-west foot of the Stoppelsberg, in the Haune valley south of the village of Rhina, is the Sinzigburg, an early medieval castle ruin that has been designated a land and cultural monument . There are still ditches and walls hidden in the forest.
Long stones
About 850 m southwest of the summit of the Stoppelsberg and about as far west of Unterstoppel is the natural monument Lange Steine . They are huge cuboids made of sandstone from the Solling range (upper middle red sandstone , around 245 million years old). It is assumed that the Rhön volcanoes, which were active around 25 million years ago, not only supplied the rock for the mountain tops in the area, but that the intruding magma also lifted the layers of the red sandstone. As a result of their typically right-angled clefts , the sandstone layers broke into cuboid pieces. The geologist Eckhard Speetzen, on the other hand, considers the cuboids to be the result of a "wall felling", that is, the application of a special historical method of stone mining in a medieval - early modern quarry.
These stones have always stimulated people's imagination. One drawing on one of the cuboids is assigned to the Neolithic Age , another could be of Germanic origin. The royal coat of arms is easier to explain, with which Landgrave Friedrich I of Hessen-Kassel (who was also King of Sweden) wanted to declare the stones his property in 1738.
One of the many legends tells of a farmer who thought the stones were an excellent foundation for his house and wanted to get hold of them. But when he set on the chisel, the sudden onset of lightning and thunder made him realize that the stones were probably someone else's possession.
Transport links
In Haunetal and west past the Stoppelberg the section running Hauneck -Haunetal- Burghaun of State Road 27 and the section Haunetal-Burghaun the Bebra-Fulda railway - each in north-south direction. The mountain can only be reached on forest roads, for example coming from the district road 47 that branches off from the B 27 to the south and connects Ober- and Unterstoppel .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Werner Röll: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 126 Fulda. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB)
- ↑ Eckhard Speetzen: The long stones at Unterstoppel. My home country (monthly supplement to the Hersfelder Zeitung ). Vol. 52, No. 11, 2013, pp. 41–44 ( PDF 290 kB)