Swing
| Swing | |||
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 Marking stone and signs on the edge |
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| Compass direction | west | east | |
| Pass height | 446 m above sea level NHN | ||
| state | Lower Saxony | ||
| Watershed | Fulda | Werra | |
| Valley locations |
Nieste ( Hesse ) |
Kleinalmerode ( Hesse ) |
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| expansion | State road 563/3237 | ||
| Mountains | Kaufunger Forest | ||
| profile | |||
| Ø pitch | 4.2% (216 m / 5.1 km) | 3.2% (196 m / 6.1 km) | |
| Max. Incline | 14% | ||
| Map (Lower Saxony) | |||
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| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '52 " N , 9 ° 44' 58" E | ||
The swing between the northern Hessian villages Nieste and Kleinalmerode is 446 m above sea level. NHN high mountain pass in the Kaufunger Wald in the southernmost tip of southern Lower Saxony near the Hessian border ( Germany ).
geography
location
Within the Kaufunger Wald the Umschwang ( southern Lower Saxony ) is located around 18 km east of the city of Kassel ( northern Hesse ) and around 8 km (distances as the crow flies ) west-southwest of the small town of Witzenhausen (northern Hesse) in the southernmost part of the Göttingen district . It is located in the southern foothills of the Münden Nature Park , to which the northern foothills of the Frau-Holle-Land Geo-Nature Park (Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald) connect to the south .
Natural allocation
The surrounding area belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) and in the main unit Fulda-Werra-Bergland (357) to the natural areas Kaufunger Wald-Hochfläche (Vorderer Kaufunger Wald) (357.71) in the west and Hinterer Kaufunger Wald (357.72) in the East; the border between the two natural areas belonging to the Kaufunger Wald and Söhre sub-unit (357.7) runs directly over the pass.
Waters
The Wengebach rises to the west of the surrounding area and is an east-northeast tributary of the Nieste that runs along the pass road . In this area close to the pass, there are several fish ponds along the road . The Hungershäuser Bach rises east of the top of the pass and is a western tributary of the Werra that flows in the opposite direction in the upper reaches, also along the road .
Course of the road
The Hessian state road 3237 leads to the pass road that runs over the surrounding area from the west from Kassel located in the valley of the Fulda or from the A 7 (junction Kassel-Nord ) . Initially it runs in the valley of the eastern Fulda tributary Nieste through the communities of Niestetal ( Hesse), Staufenberg (Lower Saxony) and Nieste (Hesse), then in the forest as a narrow pass road with mostly only gentle curves along the Nieste tributary Wengebach to the Umschwang. In the area of Uschlag and Dahlheim (southern parts of the municipality of Staufenberg) and the actual pass road, it is the Lower Saxony state road 563. Shortly before the pass is at a sharp bend at 441.7 m a hiker's parking lot and near its highest point there is a small rest area a small, wooden shelter .
East of the surrounding area, the pass road runs along the southern valley flank of the Hungershäuser Bach, which corresponds to the northern flank of the Mühlenstein , in numerous serpentines downhill to Kleinalmerode , leaving the wooded area and then running again in Hesse as Landesstraße 3237. Immediately before Kleinalmerode, the road reaches a maximum gradient of 14 percent in a counter gradient. Further east, the road, which is laid out in an increasingly flat area, runs along Krumbach and Wilhelmshäuser Bach (western tributary of the Werra ) to Witzenhausen , located on the Werra , where it meets the federal highway 451 .
Protected areas
In the area of the surrounding area there are parts of the Weserbergland Kaufunger Wald protected landscape area ( CDDA no. 325317; designated 1989; 285.02 km² ) and parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Bachtäler in the Kaufunger Wald (FFH no. 4623-331; 12.98 km²).
history
In the past, the "road" leading through the still inaccessible mountain world of the Kaufunger Forest served, for example, trade travelers and merchants with their horse and carts as a connection between the Fulda and Werra valleys. Once at the top of the pass, the leader horses were unhitched, which is what the name of the pass - Umschwang - refers to.
The mountain pass was until the end of the Cold War, intended to be blown up in defense. Two neighboring military bunkers at the foot of the Mühlenstein have been preserved from this period.
On January 18 and 19, 2007, hurricane Kyrill raged among other things in Germany and thus also in the surrounding area: Trees were uprooted in relatively small areas. Nevertheless, the forest there - in contrast to other areas in the Kaufungen Forest - remained largely intact.
Opportunities for viewing
A little north of the small refuge that stands at the top of the pass of the Umschwang, you can see quite far through a small gap in the tree in an east to northeast direction. The view often extends to the former inner-German border and thus also to today's border triangle of Hesse-Lower Saxony-Thuringia . The Brocken ( Saxony-Anhalt ) in the Harz Mountains , 80.7 km away (as the crow flies) and 1141.2 m high, is seldom seen in good visibility , at least if you have binoculars with you.
Hiking and sports
From the hikers' car park located a little to the west below the Umschwang, a little more than 6 km (one direction) on the Frau-Holle-path (through hiking trail "x4") just past the Mühlenstein to the Bilstein . On the same hiking trail in the opposite direction from the pass about 2 km to the wooded Haferberg are covered .
The Bilstein Marathon , which has been held since 2011, runs over the pass .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pass height “ 446 m above sea level. NN “ , according to the inscriptions on the marker stone on the edge or a sign there, photo on commons.wikimedia.org
- ^ 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)
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
