Butterberg (Bad Harzburg)
Butter mountain from the north
The butter mountain in Bad Harzburg in Lower Saxony district of Goslar is an approximately 325 m above sea level. NHN high ridge of the Northern Harz mountains.
Name
The name " butter " is related to " ene " (equivalent to the outside ) together (see " butene and within "). Butter mountains are so outside, located in front of or on the edge of certain localities mountains or elevations.
Geography
Location
The butter mountain located in the northern Harz mountains in the north of the Harz Nature Park, in the immediate neighborhood of the northern part of the western Harz National Park. It is located just north of the main town of Bad Harzburg, to which he belongs urban area. His landscape falls north to Kattenbach and located at the west bank of Bad Harzburg district Westerode from, to the southeast it passes to the Northern Slope of the Central Mountains resin over, to the south it falls off to the parlor Bach and west to something beyond the main road 4 flowing wheel. In the north west, the landscape passes over (approx. 304 m ) by the Radautal to 4.5 km ( straight line ) from the butter mountain remote Langenberg. On and on the survey, the field names exist on the mountain butter, butter mountain, behind the butter mountain and front of the butter mountain.
Nature Spatial allocation
The butter mountain belongs to the physiographic feature unit group Northern Harz foothills (No. 51) in the main unit resin edge recess (510) in the subunit Harzburger Harz Foreland ( 5101 ) and its sub-area foothills of the northern Upper Harz ( 5101.4 ) for natural space Harzburg Goslar Foothills ( 5101.40 ).
Reserves
On the long-drawn and wooded in the high altitudes in the context of a narrow strip of comb butter mountain nature reserve butter mountain terrain is ( CDDA-Nr. 81496 in 1952 reported; 6 hectares ). In large parts of the collection, particularly on its northern edge, areas of protected landscape resin ( Landkreis Goslar) are ( CDDA-Nr. 321402; 2001; 390.18 km ²).
Geology and Geopark
The butter mountain belongs with its steeply dipping strata to the north of the resin Aufrichtungszone northern edge disorder. It consists of calcareous sandstone of the Upper Cretaceous and is part of the Geopark Harz - Braunschweiger Land - Ostfalen.
Transport and Hiking
To the south and south-east past the butter mountain runs the country road 501 Coming by Bad Harzburg and then runs from west to east-northeast lying Stapelburg. For example, on this road starting or side streets that run through the reaching up to the southern slopes residential areas, it can be hiked on trails and paths. On and on the butter mountain pass Elebnispfade. Something southeast past runs, 501 exist beyond Bad Harzburg and of L along the northern edge of the Harz European long distance path E11, of the connections to the survey.