Haidberg bei Zell

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The Haidberg is a wooded mountain ridge from serpentinite rock near Zell im Fichtelgebirge in the northwest of the Fichtelgebirge.

Topography

The Haidberg is located about a kilometer west of the market town of Zell im Fichtelgebirge in the southern district court. He is a long, wooded ridge, the highest point measuring 692.5 m above sea level. NN. Building the Haidberg is by a comfortable supposed to take nature trail of 1.5 km in length. About the Haidberg the watershed between the catchment areas of Saxon Saale and the Main runs. The filled with groundwater former quarry site has the protection status of a natural monument and is not accessible.

Name

Haidberg is a landscape -based names and points to the previous state of the mountain. It is also for this mountain clues to the pagan Wends, who where their deities in a "holy Hayn " revered. Of these, derive the name Haidberg, must be strongly doubted. Because of its geological features he was nicknamed magnetic mountain of the Fichtelgebirge.

Geology

The Haidberg belongs geologically to Münchberger gneiss mass between the Franconian Forest and the Fichtelgebirge granite. This occupies a special position and geological forms an approximately 35 km long and 15 km wide "island" from fremdartigem rock. From this high level of Haidberg stands out with its magmatic serpentinite rock. The surface of this green - blue rock resembles the skin of a snake (Latin serpens "= snake). Housed within the rock is magnetite, which causes a deflection of the compass needle, even in small rocks. This is ready in 1797 the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt noticed that should revive as Prussian Upper Bergmeister mining in the Fichtelgebirge then.

Flora and Fauna

In 1799 it was reported that the entire Haidberg was bald and was used by the local farmers for cattle grazing. It was not until the turn of the century, the forested mountain ridge by the returning grazing gradually with pine and spruce. However, it remained greater open spaces obtained which are called because of their sparse growth and its Flachgründigkeit Magerrasen. Magerrasen locations on serpentinite set in Germany a distinct botanical rarity dar. To further develop the entire southern slope is strongly positioned thins to get the habitat of the following plants: heather, winter heath, dwarf book and arnica. The to the east of the ridge located abandoned serpentinite quarry is not accessible for the visitors. By the former quarrying a habitat for rock -breeding bird species originated. The area with the ground water -filled quarry is also a refuge for rare reptiles, amphibians and insects.

Economic benefits

First stones were crushed and processed into gravel quarry on the east side of the Haidberges in the one-man operation without mechanical assistance. 1948 sold the cell market the site to the then district Munchberg, which could be prepared for road construction with the use of a mechanical crusher stone ballast. From 1960 to 1982, the company leased from Jahreis farm the land and put in the broken gravel material here. In 1987 the nunmehrige owner, the county court, all existing buildings and tear down an embankment to the road building towards. The area was fenced in and closed the entrance with a gate.

The Devil wells

Southwest of the Haidberg swells at an altitude of 600 meters in the middle of a meadow near a willow bush a mineral spring out of the earth, which is located in cards since 1783. The source version consists of serpentinite rock. The source supplies water to Lübnitzbach, which opens into the Ölschnitz and flows into the White Main. The meadow east of the source called the Devil, and the meadow to the east of subsequent meadow sky meadow. Unclear the location and name is a chapel which is said to have been near the devil fountain or on the Haidberg itself. Called to be the Holy name Rupprecht or St. Otting.