Wachtberg (Taubenheim)
| Wachtberg | ||
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 Wachtberg summit |
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| height | 363.5 m | |
| location | Free State of Saxony , Germany | |
| Mountains | Lusatian highlands | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 3 '2 " N , 14 ° 28' 5" E | |
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| rock | Nepheline basalt , granodiorite , | |
| particularities | former quarry, area natural monument | |
The Wachtberg ( 363.5 m ), popularly called Wacheberg , is a hilltop in the Bautzen district in Saxony . It is located in the district of Taubenheim / Spree in the municipality of Sohland on the Spree in the Lausitzer Bergland . Its summit with the former quarry is protected as an area natural monument.
geography
The wooded hilltop rises to the right above the Spreetal and falls in the northeast to the Eichgrund. At the foot of the eastern foothills known as the goat's back and crab claws is the clay pond. The federal road 98 runs north of the Wachtberg . Around the Wachtberg lie Wassergrund in the northeast , Taubenheim / Spree in the southeast , Schafberg and Neusorge in the southwest , Wendisch-Sohland in the west and Ellersdorf in the northwest . The green marked hiking trail from Uhyst am Taucher to Äußerstniedersohland leads west and south around the Wachtberg.
To the east rises the Krahberg ( 338 m ), in the south the Taubenberg ( 458 m ) and the Hornsberg ( 402 m ), to the southwest the Schafberg ( 348 m ) and in the west the Frühlingsberg ( 353 m ).
description
The Wachtberg is a volcanic elevation that arose from a basalt breakthrough through a clod of Rosenhainer granite, a light variety of granodiorite. In 1893 horizontally lying basalt columns could still be seen in the northern part of the summit and a basalt sheaf bent over to the south in the southern part. The Wachtberg summit was largely dismantled by the quarry. Today there is a pond in the former quarry. Both types of rock are clearly recognizable in the quarry area.
Despite its low height, the hilltop, surrounded by agricultural land, offers a wide view of the Spree valley, the Beiersdorfer water and the bottom of the water in all directions in front of the panorama of the second and third mountain ranges of the Lausitzer Bergland . The green marked hiking trail leading over the northern slope from Uhyst am Taucher to Äußerstniedersohland provides a wide view of the Spreetal with the Sohland reservoir as far as the calf stones .
history
In 1778 there was a battle between Prussian and Austrian hussars on the Wachtberg during the War of the Bavarian Succession . The miles sheet shows that there was a memorial column on the Wachtberg at the beginning of the 19th century.
At the end of the 19th century, the owners of the Taubenheim manor began to mine the nepheline basalt on the Wachtberg. In the first half of the 20th century, a gravel works was laid on the Neue Weg, which runs south of the summit. In the 1930s, the Taubenheim basalt works were shut down. The lower part of the quarry then filled with water over time.
Area natural monument
The entire wooded summit area was placed under protection as an area natural monument. A remnant of the original star chickweed, pedunculate oak and hornbeam forest has been preserved around the quarry . In it are copies of small-leaved lime , black cherry , maple , elm , white elm , hazel , blackthorn , hawthorn , dog rose , Lederblättrigen Rose and Cross mandrel . Soil flora consists mainly of the lungwort , spring grass pea , Bingelkraut , Zimterdbeeren , pigeons cranesbill , Arabis glabra , Wirbeldost , Heilziest , forest grass pea , milk vetch and Heidelabkraut . 24 species of heteroptera , including the rare Charagochilus gyllenhalii , Dichrooscytus intermedius , Psallus diminutus and Oncotylus punctipes , were found on the site.
Headless rider
Around the Wachtberg there is a legend of a rider without a head, according to which an imperial lieutenant who fell there is guarding a buried war chest.
literature
- Around Bautzen and Schirgiswalde (= values of the German homeland . Volume 12). 1st edition. Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1967, p. 218.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ on newer maps the height is 368 m above sea level. NN specified
- ^ Miles sheet Taubenheim