Westerberg (Lamstedt)

Westerberg
Highest peak	Georgenhöhe ( 66 m above sea level )
location	at Lamstedt ; District of Cuxhaven , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Coordinates	53 ° 39 ′ N , 9 ° 6 ′ E Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ N , 9 ° 6 ′ E
Type	Terminal moraine

The Westerberg is a maximum of 66 m above sea level. NHN high ridge with mixed forest in the north of the joint municipality of Börde Lamstedt in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven . Like the north-north-west neighboring ridge Wingst ( 74 m ), with which it forms part of the eastern border of the Hadeln country , it is a terminal moraine from the Saale Cold Age .

geography

location

The Westerberg ridge lies between the Land Hadeln in the west and Land Kehdingen in the east. It extends between Bröckelbeck , a hamlet of the city of Hemmoor , in the north and Hollen , a district of the Hollnseth municipality , in the south with the central core of the municipality of Lamstedt roughly in the middle of the landscape. The ridge is around 11 km long in north-south direction and around 5 km wide in east-west direction. A little to the north-west of it lies the Balksee with the Varreler Moor on the east bank, to the west the Winzler Heide spreads out. North-northwest of the Westerberg, the landscape leads over to the Wingst ridge .

Natural allocation

The Westerberg belongs to the natural space main unit group Stader Geest (No. 63), in the main unit Wesermünder Geest (633) and in the subunit Cuxhavener Geest (633.1) to the natural area Lamstedter terminal moraines (633.10), which also includes the Wingst in the north-northwest; the Lamstedter terminal moraines extend to the south to Gnarrenburg on the Oste-Hamme Canal, which is far from the Westerberg . To the west the landscape slopes gently into the natural area Stinstedter Niederungen (633.11). To the east it leads into the natural area Mehe-Oste-Niederung (632.12), which belongs in the main unit Hamme-Oste-Niederung (632) to the subunit Osteniederung (632.1). To the north-northeast the landscape slopes gently into the natural area of Land Kehdingen (670.01), which belongs to the main unit group Elbmarschen ( Elbe lowlands ; 67) and the main unit Harburger Elbmarschen (670) to the subunit Stader Marschen (670.0).

Surveys

The surveys of the Westerberg ridge include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN):

Georgenhöhe ( Georgshöhe ; 66 m), near Rahden ( Lamstedt )
Besenbeckerberg (63 m), near Rahden (Lamstedt)
Hollbeckerberg (59 m), near Heeßel ( Hemmoor )
Bullenberg (56 m), in Nindorf (Lamstedt)
Dulonsberg (56 m), near Hollen ( Hollnseth )
Kiekerberg (51.5 m), near Heeßel (Hemmoor)

Waters

In the north of the Westerberg rises the small Goldbach , whose water flows through the Remperbach into the north-west Balksee , and the Heeßeler Mühlenbach , whose water flows through the Hackermühlen Bach coming from the central part of the landscape and through the Basbecker Schleusenfleth, which ultimately faces northwards, the Oste and then reached the Elbe estuary. In the middle part of the ridge, the Hornbach rises whose water flows through the Stinstedter Randkanal (Hornbach, Hörnbach) northwest to the Hadelner Kanal (part of the Elbe-Weser shipping route ). The Hollener Mühlenbach flows past the southern part of the landscape , whose water also reaches the Oste to the northeast through the Mehe .

history

The Ministeriale Friedrich der Elder von Haseldorf († 1272), brother of Bishop Friedrich von Haseldorf , founded a nunnery in the middle of the 13th century with land owned by the family on the Westerberg in the ore monastery of Bremen At that time Eulsete , which was also located in Bremen , was moved. The Himmelpforten monastery remained the owner of the Westerberg with its forests afterwards.

Protected areas

In the north of the Westerberg ridge are the nature reserve Westerberg and upper Hackemühlener Bachtal ( CDDA no. 555552571; designated 2012; 2.18 km² ) and the fauna-flora-habitat area Westerberge near Rahden (FFH no. 2320-331; 1.8667 km²). The Hollbecker- and Kiekerberg conservation area is located on the northern edge (CDDA no. 321726; 1938; 66.2 ha ).

Large stone grave stone oven on the Westerberg

Graves

In the forest area of Westerbergs are located next to numerous tumuli the megalithic Steenaben (stone oven) and a rock garden, a boulder collection of 106 exhibits, the boulders are witnessing the glacially influenced region.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
↑ ^a ^b Environment map service of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection ( information )
^ ^A ^b Georg von Issendorff, Kloster and Amt Himmelpforten. Represented from files and documents , reprint of the edition of the "Stader Archive", 1911/1913, expanded by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 5f. No ISBN.

[DE_BFN-Karten-1] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

[DE-NI_UK-2] Environment map service of the Lower Saxony Ministry for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection ( information )

[Issendorff_1979_5seq-3] A ^b Georg von Issendorff, Kloster and Amt Himmelpforten. Represented from files and documents , reprint of the edition of the "Stader Archive", 1911/1913, expanded by Clemens Förster, Stade and Buxtehude: Krause, 1979, p. 5f. No ISBN.