Teckberg

Teckberg
Teckberg from the south (aerial view)
height	774.8  m above sea level NHN
location	Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Mountains	Swabian Alb
Coordinates	48 ° 35 '17 "  N , 9 ° 28' 14"  E Coordinates: 48 ° 35 '17 "  N , 9 ° 28' 14"  E
Type	Zeugenberg

Teckberg from the west

Teckberg seen from the Breitenstein in the east

The Teckberg , often popularly called Teck , is 774.8  m above sea level. NHN high witness mountain of the Swabian Alb . The famous Teck Castle is located on the summit . The boundaries of the town of Owen , to which the castle also belongs, and the communities of Bissingen an der Teck and Lenningen run across the mountain .

description

Typical tuffite from Hohenbol

The Teckberg jumps out from the Albtrauf about 3 km to the north and towers over the Alb foreland by 350 m, the Lautertal by 400 m. It is flanked to the north and northwest by the approximately 602 m high foothills of Hörnle and Hohenbol . Both foothills contain chimneys of the Swabian volcano . The Teck glider airfield is located north below the Hörnle .

The upper edge of the slope of the Teckberg is formed by the Yellow Rock , a sponge reef of the Jurassic Sea made of light limestone. Under the Yellow Rock is the 31 m long and 45 m high Veronika Cave , which is connected to the Verena-Baggins-Loch by crevices . To the east of the Yellow Rock, three burial mounds from the Hallstatt period (800–400 BC) indicate the early settlement of the Teckberg. Below Teck Castle is the 35 m long and 9 m high legendary Sibyllenloch cave , opposite the 22 m long Sibyllen-Gegenhöhle. It was discovered during road construction work in 1937 and explored in 1977. During excavations in the Sibyllenloch in 1898/99, over 2000 skeletal remains of cave bears , cave lions , cave hyenas and wild horses were found. Numerous conclusions could be drawn about the Ice Age fauna.

Nature reserve

With the ordinance of the Stuttgart Regional Council of November 9, 1999, the entire Teckberg, with an area of ​​386.0 ha, was designated as a nature reserve (NSG number 1.237). The preservation and promotion of an extraordinarily diverse cultural landscape with large heaths, wet and dry meadows, orchards, hedges, forest fringes, avenues, groves, solitary trees, rocks, caves, springs and rare, natural forest communities was protected. These biotopes form high-quality habitats for a large number of partially threatened plants and animal species. Botanists were able to identify 464 different plant species in the diverse natural area.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

literature

• Wolfgang Roser, Jürgen Mauch: The Swabian volcano. GO Druck-Media-Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 2003, ISBN 3-925589-29-5 .
• Konrad Theiss: The Esslingen district. Theiss, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-8062-0171-4 .
• Nature reserve Teck , ed. from the State Institute for Environmental Protection Baden-Württemberg (LfU). Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000. ISBN 978-3-89735-142-4 .
• Reinhard Wolf , Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): The nature reserves in the Stuttgart administrative region . Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-5176-2 , pp. 492-495

Web links

Commons : Naturschutzgebiet Teck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Profile of the nature reserve in the LUBW's list of protected areas
• Environment theme park
• Leaflet with plan and explanations of the Teck nature reserve (PDF download)