Löbauer Berg
Sheep Mountain (left) and Löbauer Berg (right), seen from Bubenik, in the foreground the city Lobau
The Löbauer Mountain ( Upper Sorbian Lubijska Hora ) is an extinct volcano and 448 m above sea level. HN, the local mountain of the eponymous town in the district of Görlitz Lobau in southeastern Saxony. He has passed with mixed mountain forest consisting of oak, hornbeam and small-leaved lime.
Location
The summit of the mountain Löbauer is approximately 1.8 km east of the center of the city Lobau, which also like to adorn themselves with the nickname The city on the mountain. To the east of the mountain is Herwigsdorf. In the north, the mountain range is bounded by the railway line Lobau - Görlitz and the road S 129; to the south there are the reason Bach and the county road K 8681st
At the top of the observation tower designed as cast-iron king -Friedrich- August-Turm is with Turmgaststatte. The inn mountain home is just a ruin. On the western slope halfway up is the re-opened on 1 December 2006 mountain inn honey wells.
On the neighboring peak, the mountain sheep, is a highly visible transmission tower of Deutsche Telekom.
Geology
The Löbauer mountain is the saddle-shaped remnant of a Tertiary volcano with an oval outline. He was once much higher, numerous boulders on the slopes are evidence of the erosion due to changing ice ages, wind and water. The peak area represents the largest source dome -like basalt deposits of Upper Lusatia, it covers an area of approximately 3 km ².
The special feature of the frequently occurring actually in the region of the rock is coarse-grained structure of the solidified lava. Due to exceptionally slow cooling down to greater mineral structures and a coarse- grained structure ( dolerite ) could emerge. Thus, the basalt contains, among other inclusions of feldspar, nepheline, which later led to the efflorescence pockmarked surface of the rocks on the mountain Löbauer.
History
As early as the Bronze Age the summit area has been used by people. A rampart of the Lusatian culture of enormous proportions is to be found there. The scope of the wall, also known as slag Wall is about 1,600 meters long and encloses an area of 5 hectares. Inside they found next to residential podiums also prehistoric tools, jewelry, and pottery and bronze objects.
1738 erected the first simple hut, which was destroyed in the Seven Years' War (1756-1763 ). 1770 built the Löbauer Kaufmannschaft another stone building.
Since 1854 rises on the summit of the only recently restored, 28 -meter-high cast-iron king -Friedrich- August-Turm, a technical monument and the only one of its kind in Europe. In the construction of the tower is also the still existing tower restaurant was opened.
Sanctuary
Conservation
The Löbauer mountain was recorded in late 2009 by the Dresden State Conservation Office as an ensemble in the list of cultural monuments of Saxony.
The individual monuments are: the cast-iron tower, the toboggan run with brick Auenwange, honey fountain area and retaining walls, the mountain house with retaining walls and remains of former outbuildings, the granite staircase from Berghaus, the Prince stages, the Warrior Memorial from 1927, the great stone sea, two small quarries (one is 1929/30, provided by the Humboldt club with rock garden and alpine flora ), the Great quarry, the Jews knoll, the old toboggan run, the black angle, the coffee fountain, the Turner Bank, Brückner 's Stone ( 1942), who Engwichtstein (1954 ) and the Mücklich memorial Stone (1912).
Conservation
The Löbauer mountain is under Saxon Nature Conservation Act also recognized as a nature reserve as well as with his " canyon and slope mixed forest " habitat type areas as part of the Fauna- Flora-Habitat area " basalt and Phonolithkuppen the eastern Upper Lusatia ".
View
Due to its exposed location, one has an excellent view of the mountain. To the south rises the Kottmar and behind the mountain range of Zittau and Lusatian Mountains, in the east one sees the volcanic phonolite and basalt formation of Rotsteins as well as the country's crown at Görlitz, when visibility conditions, the mountains of the Jizera and Giant Mountains. Further north the Königshainer mountains are seen, followed by the vast plain to the north of Upper Lusatia, from the stands the silhouette of the lignite power plant Boxberg. North-west the view extends up to the towers of the city of Bautzen and the Hochstein.