Thromberg
The thrombin mountain of Salzenforst from
The thrombin Mountain ( Upper Sorbian Lubin), also called Drohmberg, mountain throne or dream mountain, is a 432 m high mountain in Bautzen in Saxony. He is also considered the mountain.
Location
It is located about 6 km southeast from the city center of Bautzen away. South-west lies the community Großpostwitz, west of the district Rasha, northwest of the district Ebendörfel, north of the district Binnewitz and southeast of the district Cosul.
The mountain is part of the northernmost mountain range of Upper Lusatia, which culminates in Czorneboh. It represents an impressive cornerstones against the west lies Spreetal, of which the southwestern foothills rises to 200 m.
Geology, soil science, hydrology, flora and fauna
The rock of the thrombin mountain, a Zweiglimmergranodiorit, occurs at the summit in cliffs ( as so-called Devil's Pulpit ) of approximately 3 m in height to light. Blocks are scattered on the upper slope.
Loess, which originally overlaid also the peak area was rearranged with the periglacial solifluction downslope. In the area of the lower slope it is about 0.5 m thick. The upper slope and the plateau white on only a small powerful solifluction ceiling above the deeply fissured bedrock, which forms a grusigen and stony soil weathering.
In an unfavorable water balance of the often waterlogged or rapidly desiccating soils ( Pseudogley and acidic podzolic brown soils ), since out of small outlets of sources on the southern slope waters are not present, the forest on poor growing conditions. The strong " devastation " of the forest goes back in part to forest grazing and litter raking until 1840. The entire southern slope is for this reason, since 1471 and 1507 of Hainitz and post joke in the possession of the Council on Budissin passed (111 ha), anwurde of 1819 these mostly planted with larches. The responsible for this urban combing administrator Johann Gottlob Postel placed the city of Bautzen in 1846 a memorial stone that still stands on the southern edge of the forest of the thrombin mountain. Instead of the original oak - birch forest, however, spruce was planted in the following decades mainly.
Numerous Brombeerarten often proliferate at the edges and in clearings of the forest. Notable species are the White blackberry (Rubus bifrons ), a characteristic species of the northern mountain range, the Silesian blackberry (R. silesiacus ) and the mountain blackberry (R. senticosus ). Faunistically is worth mentioning that in 1920 the dormouse was detected on thrombin mountain.
History
In contrast to old documents, where the name of the mountain Troyenberg ( 1404) or Tronberg ( 1471 ) was written in 1597 Oeder has the height after the nearby town Ebendörfel - then Bellschwitz - named as " Beltzwitzer Bergk ".
With a set of larger rock wall on the east side open results in a flat plateau with a diameter of 10 meters. About the origin of the wall is nothing specific reported. However, there is an oral tradition that the thrombin mountain in the Middle Ages, the robber barons " Körse " should have served as an observation post.
Saga
According to an old legend, Sorbian here are seven kings have advised on seven stone blocks on the " Lubin " when the Germans invaded the land of the Sorbs., The subsequent battle was very bloody. The battle was lost for the Sorbs, it lost all seven kings their lives a. They were buried on the mountain, together with their crowns and you tossed seven blocks on their graves, which were interpreted by the Germans as a throne. Similar to the Kyffhaeuser Sage they will now wait under the mountain on the day on which her people she calls for help.
Attractions
Approx. 290 m above the Ortsrandes of Ebendörfel near the forest of the mountain is at about 290 m height is a war memorial to honor the fallen of the First World War. To the mountain leads a ring road. The road to the summit is not signposted.