Weilsberg

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Weilsberg
The Weilsberg (right), in front of it the village of Niederreifenberg

The Weilsberg (right), in front of it the village of Niederreifenberg

height 700.7  m above sea level NHN
location near Niederreifenberg ; Hochtaunuskreis , Hessen ( Germany )
Mountains Taunus
Dominance 0.84 km →  Kleiner Feldberg
Notch height 36 m
Coordinates 50 ° 13 '52 "  N , 8 ° 25' 46"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 13 '52 "  N , 8 ° 25' 46"  E
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The Weilsberg near Niederreifenberg in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis is 700.7  m above sea level. NHN the fourth highest mountain in the Taunus low mountain range .

geography

location

The Weilsberg forms the highest point of the Feldberg-Langhals-Pferdskopf-Scholle, which runs from the Feldberg area to the north-northwest, and is the highest mountain in the Eastern Hintertaunus . It belongs to the municipality of Schmitten . Its summit is about 1 km south of Niederreifenberg . The name refers to the Weil that flows at the eastern foot of the mountain; the Emsbach runs to the west .

Natural allocation

The Weilsberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30), in the main unit Eastern Hintertaunus (302) to the natural area Pferdskopf-Taunus (302.6).

Former ski jump

Until 1953 there was a ski jumping hill on the Feldberg . This was abandoned and in 1957 a ski jumping hill was built with the support of US Army units stationed at Sandplacken . A wooden tower about 15 meters high provided the necessary starting speed. From there the inrun track led through a channel blasted into the rock to the take-off table. The run was on the current site of the Niederreifenberg Shepherd Dog Association above the Reifenberg primary school and the village's quad track. The hill allowed jumps up to about 40 m. In the opening competition in February 1965, Manfred Schletting from SC Taunus achieved a width of 48.5 meters. In the winter of 1962/63, the Hessian Nordic Combined Championships were held on Weilsberg.

Site of the former ski jump

In 1964 the ski jump was renovated for 50,000 marks by the Hessian Ski Association. In 1971 a hill record of 52 m was measured on the new hill. In the same year the ski jump was closed after an accident. A 16 year old jumper lost a ski, fell, seriously injured and remained paraplegic. The subsequent examination of the ski jump found construction errors, the ski jump was later dismantled. Today only the tracks in the rock and a remnant of the hill substructure remind of it.

Beilstein

The Beilstein is a mighty slate rock about 600 meters northwest of the summit of the Weilsberg. The etymology is unclear. Herr assumes that the jagged rock looks like an ax and, on the other hand, cites a source who mentions Heinrich, a glass melting master, who was the subject of Count Georg von Beilstein.

Pink

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View from the Zacken over to Oberems and above the hot head mountain (465.2 meters); in the back right on the horizon the hamlet of Reinborn

The Zacken is a mighty slate rock at a height of 640 meters about 500 meters south of the Beilstein. The Zacken is visible from afar from Oberems and in turn represents a good vantage point. On a map sketch by August Ravenstein from 1871 the area is marked as "Der Beilstein (Zacken)". The sports club "Zackenkicker" in Oberems refers in its name to the rock. The double episode " In the Forest " of the series Der Taunuskrimi was also shot on the spike. A hiking trail from the Weilsberg car park opens up Zacken and Beilsberg.

Weilsberg desert

On the southeast flank of the Weilsberg, about 1000 m south of Niederreifenberg, near the former location of the former ski jumping hill, lies the Weilsberg desert ( ⊙ ), also called Weil (s) berg (en) in different spellings . It is located at an altitude of about 674  m and is shown on a map from 1675.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 139 Frankfurt a. M. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)
  3. ↑ Evelyn Kreutz: Ski eagles are drawn to the Feldberg; in: Taunuszeitung of December 28, 2017, p. 20.
  4. ^ Matthias Pieren: Memory of a long winter - Hessian ski championships 1963 in Reifenberg ; in: Taunuszeitung from March 5, 2010, p. 19
  5. ↑ Evelyn Kreutz: Ski eagles are drawn to the Feldberg; in: Taunuszeitung of December 28, 2017, p. 20.
  6. ↑ Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohe Taunus, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , p. 12.
  7. ↑ Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohen Taunus, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , pp. 122-123.
  8. ↑ a b Weilsberg (desert), Hochtaunuskreis. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
  9. ↑ Reinhard Michel: From the desert in the Hochtaunuskreis. In: Ingrid Berg, Eugen Ernst, Hans-Joachim Galuschka, Gerta Walsh (eds.): Heimat Hochtaunus. Kramer, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-7829-0375-7 , p. 171.

Web links

Commons : Weilsberg  - Collection of Images