Wissberg

Wissberg
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height	270.2  m above sea level NHN
location	near St. Johann and Gau-Bickelheim ; District of Mainz-Bingen and District of Alzey-Worms ; Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany )
Mountains	Rhenish Hessian hill country
Coordinates	49 ° 51 '16 "  N , 8 ° 1' 26"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 51 '16 "  N , 8 ° 1' 26"  E
rock	limestone
particularities	- Kreuzkapelle - golf course

The Wißberg is a 270.2  m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the Rheinhessen hill country . Its peak is in the area of ​​the local community St. Johann in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Mainz-Bingen . Flank parts at Gau-Bickelheim , among others, belong to the Alzey-Worms district .

geography

location

The Wißberg lies between Sprendlingen in the west-north-west, St. Johann in the north and Wolfsheim in the north-east, which are in the Mainz-Bingen district, and between Vendersheim in the east-north-east, Gau-Weinheim in the east-south-east, Wallertheim in the south-east and Gau-Bickelheim in the south, the belong to the district of Alzey-Worms. The last-mentioned district also includes an exclave of Wörrstadt located on high-altitude parts of the southeast flank . The Gau-Weinheimer Bach rises on the eastern flank of the elevation as a tributary of the Wiesbach , which flows in the south , into which the Johannisbach, which swells in the northeast, flows.

Parts of the nature reserve Wißberg ( CDDA no. 166339; designated 1992; 31.21  hectares ) are located on the high elevations of the north-west, west and south flanks .

Natural allocation

The Wißberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Northern Upper Rhine Lowland (No. 22), in the main unit Rheinhessisches Tafel- und Hügelland (227) and in the sub-unit Nördliches Tafelland (227.1) to the natural area Westplateau (227.11), which extends to the northwest via southwest and south to South-east into the natural area Rheinhessische Randstufe (227.10) drops. This in turn is followed by the subunit Wöllsteiner Hügelland (227.0).

Geology, fossils, finds

The mountain consists largely of limestone , which earned it the name "The White Mountain". On the south side, the limestone layers are covered by iron-shed, red-brown arable soil. Iron stones were still being mined here in the 19th century.

The Wißberg is one of the sites with deposits of the Ur-Rhine from the Upper Miocene around ten million years ago. These deposits are known as Dinotheria sands because they often contain teeth and bone fragments of the proboscis Dinotherium (also called Deinotherium ). The teeth of great apes that were lost in the turmoil of the Second World War in Berlin were discovered on site.

The Wißberg is a well-known site for fossil shells from the Tertiary and for pottery shards from the Hallstatt period .

Wißberg: Kreuzkapelle (south flank) with Gau-Bickelheim in the background

Others

The Gau-Bickelheimer Kreuzkapelle is located on high parts of the southern flank of the Wißberg . The golf course of the Rheinhessen Golf Club is located on the summit region of the elevation and there are vineyards on its slopes .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

literature

• Franz Joseph Spang: Rheinhessen in its past. A series of local literature . Vol. 3: The Wißberg and its surroundings. Oscar Schneider, 1923, pp. 6-7, 17.