Burgberg (Schauenburg)

View from the north, past the grove of Small Schönberg, to the castle hill

The castle hill in the woods hawk Bergland is a 499.9 m above sea level. NN high hill of hoofer gate at the northern Hesse Kassel district.

Geography

Location

Castle Hill is located in the southern center of the hawk forests highlands between the Langhe hills in the south and the High Hawk Forest to the north. It is located in the Natural Park hawk forest between the Schauenburger districts Breitenbach in the west and lying on the foothills Hoof in the east. The partially wooded mountain represents a northern foothills of the Langeberg Mountains dar. The Fulda inflow Bauna passes it to the northeast.

Nature Spatial allocation

Castle Hill belongs to the physiographic feature unit group West Hessian Mountains and sink the country ( number 34) or in the main unit hawk forests Bergland ( 342) for natural space hoofer Gate ( 342.01 ), which extends from north to the summit as valley floor along the upper reaches of the Bauna to the southeast draws.

Castle ruins castle Look

At the top of Castle Hill are repaired remains of between 600 and 800 AD, built Schauenburg. Since about 1543 the castle has fallen, so that it was uninhabitable and subsequently used as a quarry.

View opportunity

The views from the towering castle hill ranges to the north only to the nearby High Hawk Forest and south only to the long mountains, to the east, however, about Hoof away up, by Kaufunger forest and Hohe Meissner, and in the West, with Breitenbach in the foreground, is behind the Behind hawk forest knolls south of the Watt mountain on a clear day to recognize even the distant Rothaargebirge as well as in the southwest of Keller forest.

Transport and Hiking

To the northeast, east and south of the castle hill is passed by the railway line Kassel- Naumburg, on which runs the Hessencourrier and is accompanied by Hessencourrier bike path. South past the federal highway 520 runs over the Castle Hill lead the hawk Waldsteig, Kassel - climbing and fairy land, east past runs of Herkulesweg.