Baptismal font (Vogelsberg)
| Baptismal font | ||
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 View from the eyrie to the font in the center of the picture |
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| height | 773 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Breungeshain ; Vogelsbergkreis , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Vogelsberg | |
| Dominance | 43 km → Dalherdakuppe ( Rhön ) | |
| Notch height | 406 m ↓ thistle lawn north of Schlüchtern ( land ridge ) | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 31 '2 " N , 9 ° 14' 18" E | |
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| rock | basalt | |
| Age of the rock | 19 million years | |
| particularities | - highest point in the Vogelsberg - Bismarck Tower ( AT ) |
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The baptismal font is 773 m above sea level. NHN the highest peak in the Vogelsberg . It is located near Breungeshain in the Vogelsberg district in Hesse . Despite a considerable dominance of 43 km and a notch height of 406 m, the baptismal font is hardly noticeable as a single mountain, as it hardly emerges from the overall elevation of the Vogelsberg. The Bismarck Tower, completed in 1910, stands on it .
geography
location
The baptismal font rises in the Hoher Vogelsberg Nature Park in the district of Breungeshain , a district of Schotten . Its summit is 2.5 km northeast of Breungeshain and 6 km (as the crow flies ) west of the Grebenhain district of Ilbeshausen-Hochwaldhausen . About 1000 m southwest of the Taufstein is the Hoherodskopf ( 763.8 m ) as its southwest outpost and tourist magnet of the Oberwald and 2.4 km east is the Nesselberg ( 716.2 m ).
Natural allocation
The baptismal font belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) and in the main unit Hoher Vogelsberg (351) to the subunit Oberwald (351.2).
Rhine-Weser watershed and flowing waters
The Rhine-Weser watershed runs over the summit of the Taufstein . A rain moor (high moor) extends to the northern flank of the mountain , on the western edge of which lies the source of the Nidda , whose water flows through the Main into the Rhine , and on its southern flank rises a source stream of the Nidda tributary Nidder . East of the mountain is the source of the Altefeld , whose water reaches the Weser through the Schlitz and Fulda .
Protected areas
On the summit region of the baptistery is protected area (NSG) block fields at the font ( CDDA -No 81424;. 1973 expelled 7.31 ha in size) with from basalt existing block fields of the northern mountainside. Many ferns can be found in forests that have been left to nature. North of the mountain is the NSG In der Breungeshainer Heide (CDDA No. 81991; 1974; 64.37 ha), parts of the NSG Oberes Niddatal / Troutenteiche (CDDA No. 164885; 1973; 1 , 3079 km² ) and, apart from the western flank, those of the NSG Die Oberweide near Breungeshain (CDDA No. 344580; 1995; 10.7 ha). Parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Hoher Vogelsberg (FFH no. 5421-302; 38.6136 km²) extend to the summit region . Parts of the bird sanctuary Vogelsberg (VSG no. 5421-401; 636.4497 km²) are located on the entire mountain .
Bismarck Tower
The 22 m high Bismarck Tower standing on the Taufstein summit was built between 1907 and 1910 as a lookout tower based on a design by the architect Ludwig Hofmann in 1906 .
This was preceded by two wooden towers, originally built by the Central European Degree Measurement Commission and the General Staff for surveying purposes, of which the first was purchased in 1883 by the Vogelsberger Höhen-Club (VHC) as a lookout tower. Both had to be demolished in 1898 due to disrepair. After the initial donation of 3,000 marks by the VHC branch association Lauterbach for a stone lookout tower in 1900, the Hirzenhain branch association of the VHC proposed to build the new tower as a Bismarck tower. As a result, a building committee was founded under the chairmanship of Hugo Buderus , who also made a significant contribution to the financing of the building. A memorial plaque inside the tower reminds of his commitment.
Like many other Bismarck towers, the one on the baptismal font has a (now unused) fire bowl above the viewing platform for lighting a fire on festive and memorial days. The tower was last renovated in 1997. It is also depicted in the coat of arms of the district of Büdingen , which existed until 1972 and was awarded in 1952 , the highest point of which was the baptismal font.
Two spiral staircases made of stone and metal and a concrete staircase with a total of 101 steps lead to the viewing platform. The view from the tower is completely unobstructed to the west, north and east and extends over large parts of Hesse to the adjoining low mountain range. The view to the south is blocked by beeches .
Bonifatiusborn
The Bonifatiusborn (also called Bonifatiusbrunnen ) is located on the summit region of the Taufstein a few meters south-east of the Bismarck Tower . According to legend, Boniface , the "apostle of the Germans", preached here. The fountain has no spring, just a stone border.
Former US radio station
Below the summit was during the Cold War, a radio station ( Radio Relay Site ) of the US Army . It was almost completely dismantled in the 1990s.
See also
Web links
- Hoher-Vogelsberg Nature Park (official homepage)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Schartenhöhe ( Memento of the original from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , according to highrisepages.de
- ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
- ↑ Bismarck Tower Schotten , observation tower on the Taufstein, on bismarcktuerme.de
- ↑ Bonifatiusborn information board, on commons.wikimedia.org
- ↑ Fulda Gap - Taufstein , on fulda-gap.de
