Alter Stolberg

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Stempeda the Alter Stolberg

The Old Stolberg is a wooded, to 357.7 m above sea level. NN high karst plateau of the southern Harz in the district of Nordhausen ( Thuringia) and the district of Mansfeld - South Harz (Saxony- Anhalt) in Germany.

Geographical Location

The age range of hills Stolberg extends Südharzer Zechsteingürtel especially in Thuringia; its located in Saxony -Anhalt Ostausläufer fall off in the valley of Krebsbach and Thyra. To the north lies the resin, the south through by the helmets Goldene Aue.

Clockwise starting in the south of the Old Stolberg is located between the Thuringian towns Görsbach and Urbach in the south, Leimbach and Steigerthal in the west, Buchholz and Herrmannsacker the northwest, Stempeda and - beyond that - Nordhausen in the north and the situated in Saxony -Anhalt Localities Rottleberode and Uftrungen in the east.

In the northern part of the Old Stolberg rises with the king's head ( 357.7 m above sea level. NN ) and its highest elevation in the southeast part of the mountain lies Rees ( 325.2 m above sea level. NN ).

→ for these and other surveys of the Old Stolberg see paragraph resin of the article " List of mountains and elevations in Thuringia "

Nature and landscape protection

The northern part of the wooded mountain range is a nature reserve Age Stolberg and large parts of the area are as protected landscape Age Stolberg reported.

The proportion in the district of Nordhausen is 622.7 hectares.

In Saxony- Anhalt, the adjacent nature reserve is protected age Stolberg (Saxony- Anhalt) and grass Burgerwiesen in the district of Mansfeld - South Harz with a total area of 28.0 hectares.

Special

In the area of ​​Rees Berg is the gypsum cave Heimkehle. In addition, here stands the ruined castle grass, a medieval refuge, which is according to legend, the ancestral castle of the Counts of Stolberg.