Wisselsröder Küppel
| Wisselsröder Küppel | ||
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 Dried up meadows and pastures on the Küppel in August 2018 |
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| height | 402.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Wisselsrod ; District of Fulda , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 '4 " N , 9 ° 46' 4" E | |
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The Wisselsröder Küppel (colloquially just Küppel ) is 402.6 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Fulda basin . It has been designated as a natural monument since 1938 . It is located near Wisselsrod in the municipality of Dipperz in the Hessian district of Fulda .
geography
location
The Wisselsröder Küppel rises in the far west of the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . Its summit is around 720 m west of Wisselsrod , a district of the municipality of Dipperz , as well as 1.4 km north-northeast of Dirlos and 1.2 km southeast of Wissels , two districts of Künzell . To the south the landscape slopes down to the Haune . Neighboring elevations include the Fulder Berg (approx. 425 m ) in the south and the Dassener Berg ( 436.8 m ) in the south-southwest, both of which are located near Dassen . The Hessian Rhön Nature Park is in the eastern neighborhood .
Natural allocation
The Wisselsröder Küppel belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) and in the main unit Fuldaer Senke (352) to the subunit Fulda Basin (352.1). To the east in particular, the landscape leads over into the subunit Western Rhön foreland (353.1), which is part of the main unit Vorder- und Kuppenrhön (with ridge) (353).
Mountain description
The Wisselsröder Küppel is the northern and higher elevation of two extinct volcanoes made of phonolite . Part of the mountain on the southern side was removed when it was used as a basalt quarry, which is still clearly visible today. Steeper places are bushed. Where possible, the mountain consists of grassland that is grazed .
The severely dilapidated former quarry was built on three levels with a longitudinal diameter of fifty meters. The rock still standing today, especially on its northern and eastern side, is heavily weathered. You can see a columnar development. The basalt columns , which are only a few decimeters thick, point northwards on the north, south-east on the east and north-west on the west. They are therefore suitable for the solidification of a melt as the filling of a chimney . The vent was blasted out of the upper red sandstone as a phreatomagmatic explosion in one or more eruptions . on the southeast side of the quarry there are still corresponding volcanic sediments (clastites). In this corner the basanite is also particularly rich in foreign rock inclusions . A heavily weathered lherzolite is clearly visible underneath .
There is a trigonometric point at its top .
history
The Wisselsröder Küppel was first mentioned under the name Kuffihouc as a border point in the Karlmann donation . In 1928 the Fulda district administrator and the mayor of the then independent municipality of Wisselsrod were informed by the regional council of Kassels that the survey was to be protected as an “outstanding natural monument”, so “... that the respective owner avoids any damage to the bucket by removing soil components has to contain ". Since the area was already owned by the municipality at that time, a complete protection would have been possible without any problems. This failed, however, because the community and the residents mined basalt for the construction of the road and they did not want to be deprived of the right to do so. A passage was later added to the “Police Ordinance on the Wisselsröder Küppel Nature Reserve”, which meant that it could still be used as a quarry for a limited number of people.
The archaeologist and local researcher Joseph Vonderau walked the Küppel in 1930, and in his report he spoke out in favor of allowing further use of the southern part of the mountain. After a complaint in 1934 about inadmissible stone removal on a considerable scale, which did not lead to any legal consequences, it was suggested in 1935 that a deep ditch made the quarry impassable for vehicles and wagons.
In 1963, the quarry hit the regional headlines again when the Rhönklub -Zweigverein Fulda was outraged in the Fuldaer Zeitung that "natural molesters" were destroying the mountain after seeing 10 m³ of gravel ready for collection during a hike . In 1982 the municipality of Dipperz considered filling the quarry with rubble and renaturing it. However, these were not implemented.
At the foot of the elevation, at the suggestion of the mayor at the time, Alfred Seuring, a restored stone cross was put up again, which was previously located on an overgrown property at the nearby Lingeshof.
In 1993 the Wisselsröder "Kulturverein" performed a play on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the town in the quarry.
Every year on the Sunday after Shrovetide, the Rhön tradition of the Hutzel fire is cultivated by the cultural association on the Küppel .
Protected status as a biotope
The Wisselsröder Küppel was last recorded in the context of biotope protection in 1994. It can be found on the topographic map of Fulda (No. 5424; M = 1: 25,000). The summit region with its slopes was completely protected as a therophyte corridor with the biotope number 93 (key number 5424B0093). To the west, this protected area is framed by the area with biotope number 90, which is fully protected as a wood of dry and fresh locations (key number 5424B0090).
Traffic and walking
In Wisselsrod, the state road 3258 meets the district road 51 . From the latter, the Küppelweg branches off, in the continuation of which, past the culture barn , the elevation can be reached via an initially paved dirt road. Since the mountain is completely grazed in summer, an inspection is not always possible. Since it is not much higher than the neighboring landscape, it does not offer particularly good visibility.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d e f Wisselsröder Küppel has been on record as a natural monument in the Fulda district since 1938, from June 25, 2012, accessed on February 21, 2016, from landkreis-fulda.de
- ↑ Werner Röll: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 126 Fulda. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB)
- ↑ a b Heiner Flick, Adalbert Schraft: The Hessian Rhön - Geotopes in the Land of Open Afar , Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology, 2013, ISBN 3-89026-373-9 , pp. 170–172
- ↑ Anneliese Hofemann: Studies on the development of the territory of the Reichsabtei Fulda and its offices , vol. 1, NG Elwert, 1958, p. 31
- ^ Hutzelfeuer in East Hesse on the weekend , Fuldaer Zeitung of March 8, 2014, accessed on March 15, 2016, on fuldaerzeitung.de
- ↑ Map of the natural regions in Hesse ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (with search function) and explanation of the protected natural areas (PDF; 26 KB), accessed on February 29, 2016, at natureg.hessen.de
