Ravensberg (Harz)
View from Great tubers southeastward to the Ravens mountain
The Ravens in the Harz Mountains is an approximately 659 m above sea level. NHN high near Bad Sachsa in the unincorporated area of the county resin Osterode am Harz in Lower Saxony.
Geographical location
The Ravens mountain is located in the southern Harz Harz nature park. It rises about 3.5 km northwest of Bad Sachsa, approximately 4.5 km east of Bad Loud Mountain and about 4.5 km (in each case a straight line ) southwest of Wieda. West past the mountain the Steina ( Steinaer Bach), which then flows through the south-west of him Steinatalsperre to gel density. To the northeast of the summit rises the Uffe which happened just east of the mountain in the Easter valley and empties into the Wieda if that is seeping into the gypsum karst. Southwest and east of the mountain highlands of spring in Kukanstal ( Kuckanstal ) and Katzental each streams that feed the southeast of the mountain in Bad Sachsa located Schmelzteich shortly after its confluence and lead shortly afterwards in the Uffe. The mountain is relatively exposed and is visible from afar.
Spatial allocation Nature and Landscape Protection
The Ravens mountain belongs to the physiographic main unit means resin for subunit Southern Central resin ( 380.80 ). It is situated in the conservation area Harz (Landkreis Osterode am Harz ) ( CDDA-Nr. 321403; reported 2000; 300.2 km ² ).
Geology
The towering cone is the remains of an extinct volcano from the era of the Permian, the main rock is relatively slow verwitternder rhyolite.
Berghof mountain Ravens
Already in 1845 talked some Sachsa residents and in particular Mayor Scheidel to the farmer August Koolhaase to build on the Ravens mountain peaks a tourist restaurant. This 1848 built the first wooden hut with milk and beer.
1854 there followed the first restaurant of stone with a 13 m high observation tower, which afforded a view of the Stöberhai, Worm Mountain, chunks and Kyffhaeuser. The restaurant was in 1888 extended to a wooden floor and this expanded with rooms. The Hotel Berghof Ravens mountain was rebuilt several times. In the style of a mountain chalet, it was dressed in a planking and resembled his porch and the lookout tower to the neighboring mountain hotel Stöberhai. The Berghof was completely burned down, together with the tower on Christmas Eve 1962.
The owner of Fritz Kühn family has subsequently re-erected the still existing hotel building in a different form, which was opened on 11 March 1964. On the construction of an observation tower has been omitted here.
In September 2009, the Berghof was purchased by the town of Bad Sachsa is the first time no longer in family hands. In July 2010 he took over the family Dornieden a new tenant.
In addition to the Berghof is the vivarium Berghof Ravens mountain.
Dreiherrenstein
Slightly below the Ravens mountain summit located on the Ravens mountain road one probably originating from the 17th century Dreiherrenstein to which the Kingdom of Prussia, the Kingdom of Hanover and the Duchy of Brunswick adjoined within the framework of a three- country triangle until 1866. On the small landmark, the original border information in the form of letters or Roman numerals, in addition to any other marking to identify: "S" for Sachsa on the Prussian side, "FG" for the Principality Grubenhagen, "L" for Lauterberger forest on hannoverischer side and " W " pen for office Walkenried on Braunschweigischer page.
Postal agency
1884 prompted the postmaster general Heinrich von Stephan, who lived during a holiday at the Berghof Ravens mountain and hunted in the area, the establishment of a post office on the Ravens mountain, which was closed in 1914.
Kyffhaeuser memorial stone
In addition to the befindlichem on the Ravens Ravens mountain peaks Berghof is the " Kyffhaeuser memorial stone " with metal panel. Their inscription refers to the " 81 m " high and " 46,000 m " east-southeast from the memorial stone between " 1890" and " 1896 " built " Kyffhaeuser monument ", which stands in the Thuringian Kyffhauserkreis in Kyffhaeuser Mountains. At the base of the memorial stone, these letters are: " Unity and justice and freedom."
Telecommunications tower
On the Ravens Mountain is a 64 m high, former and called locally as the Ravens mountain tower Enlightenment storm, which was built in 1970. Probably by the Federal Intelligence Service ( BND) powered tower served during the Cold War as a radio monitoring system to intercept military radio communications in the GDR. Today the remaining antenna systems are used as radio transmission site ( FuÜSt ) from Deutsche Telekom.
Leisure
Viewing and hiking
The Ravens mountain is popular vantage point, the view in the resin ranges among other things to the Brocken, Great tubers and Stöberhai and Bad Lauterberg and also far to Thuringia, for example, to Kyffhäuserdenkmal in Kyffhaeuser Mountains. The Dreiherrenstein located near the mountain summit is a popular transit point for hiking and mountain biking. Over the hill leads among other forest and hiking trails of the Harz cottage gate.
Winter sports area
The winter sports area on the Ravens mountain has a double drag lift (298 m long, 103 m altitude) and two single ski lifts (140 and 186 m long, 33 and 55 m in altitude) and nine ski runs with a total of 4 km in length; the longest run is 750 m and the shortest 220 m long. Twice a week, night - skiing is possible. Below from the winter sports area parking area is an approximately 300 m long toboggan run for tobogganing and sledding available. About the high altitudes of the mountain lead the South Harz trail, on which one can achieve among others the Stöberhai and Brown situation, and the Kaiserwegloipe.
Traffic
On the Ravens mountain leads the most Pädagogium Bad Sachsa beginning at about 350 m height and about 3.5 km long Ravens mountain road, which can be reached driving through Bad Sachsa and past the local park and the leads in the direction of north-north- west through woodland up to the summit region.