Brandberge

The Fire Mountains are a nature reserve in the conservation area " Saaletal ". The area is located in the state of Saxony- Anhalt, in the northwestern city of Halle, between Kröllwitz and Heide Nord, on the edge of the Hercynian dry region. The fire mountains have important significance for the climate of hall by a declaration addressed to the north -north-east of cold air flow.

Use

In the 1930s it was a popular winter sports resort. After the Second World War until the end of 2007, the fire mountains were used as a military training camp by Soviet military, NVA and Bundeswehr. During this time, there flora and fauna could develop largely undisturbed. Today, the area is used exclusively as pasture for sheep.

Geology

The fire mountains are made of strong in relief porphyry dome complexes and shallow areas in the direction of the adjacent hall. In the central area of the porphyry domes are the remains alttertiärer Kaolinrinde and tertiary sediments. Between the Halle Hecht ditch and the Saale, a dry subsoil of gravel deposits has formed, in part, this cohesive layers are superposed.

Flora

The area is characterized by dry and semi-dry grasslands and dwarf shrub heath on porphyry hills, ponds and reedbeds, carr, half-bog sites, waste places and lean arable land. It found there worth protecting plant species such as the Common Milkwort, the Common Pasque, the ragged robin and the congregation water crowfoot. Also found there endangered plant communities such as Euphorbio - Callunetum, thymo - Festucetum and Filipendulo - Helictotrichetum.

Fauna

In the fire mountains, there are numerous species of amphibians and reptiles such as toads, newts and grass snakes. Shorebirds and songbirds use the area as a breeding site. Raptors use the arable land for food procurement and in the whole area there is an extremely diverse insect fauna.

The Thingstätte

On April 30, 1934, the Nazi Thingplace Brandberge was completed as "first Thingstätte of the Empire ". The building was designed by architect Ludwig Moshamer and was directed by Walter Tiessler and Wilhelm Jost. Was constructed including a Thingplace with 5,050 seats on an outdoor stage of about 100 by 100 meters, this porphyry was occurring mainly in the region used. The Thingstätte is on the Halle monument list, but is by decay and overgrowth today hardly recognizable. Part of Thingstätte were among the other six larger than life working stills from red Löbejüner rhyolite (quartz porphyry ), the sculptor Alfred Vocke, which were assessed in the former GDR, despite Nazi past worth preserving and situated at Halle Kurt Wabbel Stadium. After the demolition and reconstruction of the stadium Kurt Wabbel the listed external wall was integrated with the workers still images in the newly built natural gas Sportpark.