Mountains of counters
| Mountains of counters | |
|---|---|
| Highest peak | Old waiting room ( 230 m above sea level ) |
| location | near Langenstein ; District of Harz , Saxony-Anhalt ( Germany ) |
| part of | Northern Harz foreland |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 51 ′ N , 11 ° 1 ′ E |
| Type | Shift level |
| rock | Sandstone |
| Age of the rock | Upper Chalk |
The bar mountains near Langenstein in the Harz district in Saxony-Anhalt are narrow, elongated and about 230 m above sea level. NHN high ridge in the northern Harz foreland .
geography
location
The bar mountains are located in the northern Harz foreland in the northern part of the Harz / Saxony-Anhalt nature park . They are located about 3 km south of Halberstadt , directly south-south-west of the Halberstädter Klussiedlung , 5 km south-west of Harsleben , 3 km north-north-east of Börnecke and 2 km east of Langenstein . The ridge extends for a little more than 4 km along an approximately northwest-southeast oriented axis. Its north-western edge drops to the Goldbach , which there passes the bar mountains, flowing northeast towards the Bode . Approximately in a north-north-east direction from the north-western part of the ridge, located directly between Halberstadt and the Klussiedlung, are the mountains of mirrors . The south-eastern continuation of the Bar Mountains are the Harsleben Mountains .
Natural allocation
The bar mountains belong to the natural spatial main unit group Northern Harz foreland (No. 51), in the main unit Blankenburger Harzvorland (510 2 ) and in the subunit Halberstadt-Quedlinburger Hügelland (510 2 .1) to the oval-shaped natural area Harsleben mountains (510 2 .10) , which, in addition to the Harsleben mountains mentioned above, also includes the mirror mountains, the Klus mountains and the bar mountains. The oval frames the internal natural area Münchehofer basin (510 2 .11).
Morphology, highest points and rock formations
The counter mountains form a typical layer with a steep "south-west roof" (step front) and gently sloping "north-east roof". According to this morphology, the highest points are near the southwest flank, such as the Alte Warte and the Kalte Warte in the northwest part of the ridge, with over 230 m and over 225 m respectively . The Krähenhütte in the middle part of the ridge comes to over 210 m and the Fuchsklippe to over 205 m . The Große Thekenberg ( 203.8 m ) at the southeast end of the ridge is morphologically distinct from the largely closed formation of the counter mountains and actually already belongs to the Harsleben mountains. The Kleine Thekenberg (approx. 180 m ), about 500 m north-west of the Große Thekenberg , is located within the actual counter mountain.
Near the north end ( Langenstein-Zwieberge memorial ; see below ) of the Thekenberge is the Gläserne Mönch , a high sandstone rock, which was called Thorstein by the ancient Teutons , today clearly towers over the forest and serves as a lookout point.
Schnepfensee
At the southwest foot of the Großer Thekenberg lies the Schnepfensee , a flat water lake with no inflow or outflow, but which only carries water in times of heavy rainfall and then becomes a maximum of around 12 hectares in size. The lake bears its name because it serves as a resting place and place of foraging for snipe birds on their flight from or into the arctic tundras.
geology
The bar mountains are geologically located on the southwestern edge of the northwestern part of the Halberstädter Mulde. The latter is the north-eastern part of the south-eastern part of the Subherzynen chalk trough. The southwest part of the basin is called Blankenburger Mulde. This is separated from the Halberstädter Mulde by the Quedlinburger Sattel . The layers emphasize here generally hercynian (NW-SE), parallel to the resin northern edge. Counter mountains and Harslebener mountains are part of a total of about 10 km long, sweeping in a northwest-southeast direction and flattening southeast layer level from the relatively erosion resistant Involutussandstein (named after the shell Inoceramus involutus ) of Coniac ( "medium" Upper Cretaceous ).
Settlement and use
The mountain counters were settled early on. Finds from prehistoric times have been made near the “Glass Monk”. The rock itself probably served as a Germanic place of worship.
The inmates of the Langenstein-Zwieberge concentration camp , a satellite camp of the Buchenwald concentration camp , built an underground production facility in the bar mountains. From April 1944, a tunnel system of around 13 km in length with a total area of 67,000 m² was created within ten months and partially expanded for later production activities. Originally 72,000 m² was planned. The "Junkers" (Malachit AG) command was to begin production as a supplier as part of the "Jäger and A4 program" in the last months of the Second World War (1939–1945). Presumably the production of engine parts for jet fighters was planned; however, the production facility was never completed. Today you can find out more at the Langenstein-Zwieberge memorial .
After the war, the facility became one of the five large NVA complex camps, complex camp 12 .
After 1990, the Bundeswehr used the facility for three years. The old banknotes from the holdings of the State Bank of the GDR were stored here. The facility became known because notes were stolen from this money supply. The banknotes were then burned in a waste incineration plant. Since the summer of 2003, the bunker system can be visited by appointment.
Protected areas
The part of the ridge with the Great Thekenberg, which adjoins the rocky, partly wooded and partly heather-like Thekenberg mountains to the southeast, is surrounded by the 2.5 km² (250.58 ha ) nature reserve (NSG) Harsleben Mountains and Steinholz ( CDDA no. 14456). The forest-free, heather-like areas there are dry grass meadows with spring Adonis florets ( Adonis vernalis ). There is a mandatory route. The NSG is located in the fauna-flora-habitat area Harsleben Mountains and Steinholz northwest of Quedlinburg (FFH no. 4132-301; 2.61 km²). The entire ridge of Thekenbergen, Harsleben mountains and Steinholz is located entirely in the Harz and Vorländer landscape protection area (CDDA no. 20784; 1968; 1587.86 km²).
References and comments
- ↑ a b c d e f g Saxony-Anhalt viewer of the State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation ( notes )
- ↑ Near the gap between the Alter Warte and Kalter Warte , a 225.8 m high point is shown on topographic maps from a scale of 1: 25,000 west of the "Alten Warte" .
- ↑ Info u. a. to Großer Thekenberg near Westerhausen (see section of the same name) on harzregion.de
- ↑ Forgotten Places - The Billion Grave on einestages.spiegel.de
- ↑ Harsleben Mountains and Steinholz nature reserve ( memento from June 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), at the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office, at lvwa-natur.sachsen-anhalt.de
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )