Totenberg (Bramwald)

Totenberg
height	408.1 m above sea level NHN
location	at Bursfelde ; District of Göttingen , Southern Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains	Bramwald ( Weser-Leine-Bergland )
Coordinates	51 ° 31 '43 " N , 9 ° 38' 55" E Coordinates: 51 ° 31 '43 " N , 9 ° 38' 55" E

The Totenberg is 408.1 m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain of the Bramwald, which is part of the Weserbergland . It is located near Bursfelde in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony .

On the mountain is the 437 ha large nature reserve Totenberg , of which 342 ha as Naturnaher forest is managed under certain conditions. The remaining part was declared a natural forest Totenberg (95 ha). There signs indicate that entry is prohibited. The general ban on use also applies here, because this part of the high forest is completely left to its own devices.

Name origin

There are more forest places with the name Totenberg. However, there are no cemeteries there, rather they are mostly remote areas that were used by a supra-regional community, for example the Gau. This is an Indo-European word stem, which is included in the Latin word totus = all .

geography

location

The Totenberg rises in the west of the Göttingen district as well as in the northern part of the Bramwald and Münden Nature Park . Its summit is 2.1 km east-northeast of Glashütte and 2.2 km southeast of Bursfelde (districts of Hemeln ) and 4.1 km west-northwest of Löwenhagen and 3.1 km (as the crow flies ) northwest of Ellershausen (districts of Niemetal ). The small Steimke , which feeds the Nieme there, flows southeast to east of the mountain ; The latter passes the mountain in the north and flows into the Oberweser west of the mountain at Bursfelde .

Natural allocation

The Totenberg belongs to the Weser Uplands in the natural spatial main unit group Weser-Leine-Bergland (No. 37), in the main unit Solling, Bramwald and Reinhardswald (370) and in the subunit Bramwald (370.5) to the natural area Hemelner Bramwald (370.50). To the north the landscape leads through the valley of the Nieme to the Kuppigen Solling (370.1), to the east it drops into the Schedener Rötsenke (371.11), to the south it leads into the actual Hemelner Bramwald , and to the west it falls into the Weser breakthrough valley (370.3).

Topography and geology

Sandstone steps of the Steimke brook on the border to the NSG Totenberg

The Totenberg rises from the Weser valley from around 110 m (near Bursfelde) to 408.1 m (at the top). It has typical layers of red sandstone with admixture of loess .

History

According to local forest tradition, the inhabitants of the villages on the Bramwald did not have any rights of use in the area of the Totenberg. This was to a certain extent cemented by Charlemagne with his declaration on the ban forest . That is why there was no development to an oak forest on or on the Totenberg, as in other parts of the Bramwald . In 1989 the Totenberg natural forest (see below ) was established. Without any serious changes, beech forests had always predominated here as a natural form of forest.

Protected areas, fauna and flora

The Steimketal forms the southeast border of the Totenberg nature reserve

Sign and barrier at the Totenberg natural forest (NSG core zone)

On the Totenberg lies the Totenberg nature reserve ( CDDA no. 165935; designated 1989; 4.37 km² in size) and, almost the same area, the Totenberg fauna-flora-habitat area (FFH no. 4423-305; 4.32 km² ). Both protected areas are the protected landscape Weserbergland Kaufunger forest framed (CDDA No. 325317; 285.018 km². 1989).

In the core of the nature reserve (Zone I) the forest with insect and bird-rich fauna is to develop on around 87 hectares without any forest use in the direction of natural forest ; Outside the core zone (Zone II), according to the ordinance, particularly nature-friendly forestry is carried out. However, hunting is still necessary because otherwise a high concentration of game would make natural development more difficult. The forest research institute in Göttingen is following the changes in this area. It is becoming apparent that all other mixed tree species, e.g. B. Norway spruce , oak, larch , maple and ash , displaced. Nowadays it is almost exclusively 140-year-old beech stands with mixed-in spruce and oak. The Totenberg natural forest and the paths leading to it are closed to walkers all year round. The shy animals like wild cats and black storks particularly like the peace and quiet . In 2003 a changing she-wolf stayed in the Wolfsschlucht there for a long time, which attracted considerable public attention.

Totenberghäuschen

On the north slope of the Totenberg stand the two Totenberghäuschen , which were named after the mountain. The half-timbered houses built directly next to each other are almost two hundred years old and were used by foresters at the government level for on-site inspections with horses. The larger building is still used today as a forest service building, a curiosity is its hexagonal floor plan. The little hut was a stable for horses.

literature

Peter Meyer, Katja Lorenz, Andreas Mölder, Roland Steffens, Wolfgang Schmidt, Thomas Kompa, Anne Wevell von Krüger: Natural Forests in Lower Saxony. Protection and Research. Volume 2 - Lower Saxony mountains . Leinebergland-Druck, Alfeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-00-050091-6

Web links

Commons : Totenberg - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Nature reserve "Totenberg" in the database of the Lower Saxony State Office for Water Management, Coastal and Nature Conservation (NLWKN)

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
^ Jürgen Hövermann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)
↑ Ordinance of October 8, 2003 amending the ordinance on the "Totenberg" nature reserve in the Bramwald in the city of Münden and in the Dransfeld community in the Göttingen district. (PDF (2.12 MB)) In: Official Gazette for the Government District of Braunschweig No. 22 of November 3rd, 2003. Pp. 201–203 , accessed June 10, 2014 .
↑ Ordinance map , M = 1: 5,000 for the nature reserve ordinance, accessed on June 10, 2014 (PDF; 1.69 MB)

[BFN-Karten-1] Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[BfL-099-2] Jürgen Hövermann: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 99 Göttingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)

[BfL-112-3] Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)

[NsgVerord-4] Ordinance of October 8, 2003 amending the ordinance on the "Totenberg" nature reserve in the Bramwald in the city of Münden and in the Dransfeld community in the Göttingen district. (PDF (2.12 MB)) In: Official Gazette for the Government District of Braunschweig No. 22 of November 3rd, 2003. Pp. 201–203 , accessed June 10, 2014 .

[VKarte-5] Ordinance map , M = 1: 5,000 for the nature reserve ordinance, accessed on June 10, 2014 (PDF; 1.69 MB)