Bockberg

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The goat is a mountain 496 meters above sea level. NN high foothills of the Great Southwest Hornbergs in the resin at Chorzów in the district of Harz, Saxony -Anhalt ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The buck mountain is located in the Lower Harz within the Harz Nature Park / Saxony- Anhalt. It rises immediately to the north of the district located in Königshütter Neuehütte curve of the federal highway 27 just south flows past by Königshütte the Cold Bode, slightly further fed in below the dam Chorzów.

Geology

On the southwest slope of the mountain goat is part of a Devonian marine volcano can be seen. Debris from Keratophylarlaven in white, kaligem binders have built up a volcanic breccia, which is durchadert filled with hematite transitions. The plateau of the " mountain " is largely karstified.

Nature Conservation and Fauna

On the box mountain and its flanks is since 1967 the nature reserve Bockberg. On the Gold oat and montane semi-dry meadows flourish many rare plants, including the Troll flower.