Burghasunger Berg

Burghasunger mountain with Burghasungen (center) and Bosenberg (right) by the High Dörnberg from northeast

The Burghasunger mountain, also called Hasunger Mountain, is a 479.7 m above sea level. NN high, unbewaldeter in its high altitude mesa in the background Habicht Habicht forests forests crests in mountainous country at the Grace Berger Burghasungen district in northern Hesse district of Kassel ( Germany ).

The sections towering mountain was the site of the former monastery Hasungen. His forest -free summit plateau offers good views possibility.

Geography

Geographical location

The Burghasunger mountain is located in the nature park Hawk Forest approximately 16 km (air line) west of the city of Kassel. On its sloping east to Diemel inflow edge of the warm place Burghasungen extends to about 450 m above sea level. NN up. The summit plateau and the northern, eastern and southern flank of the mountain belong to the district of Zierenberg the wooded western flank to that of the 7 km westerly Wolf Hagen, whose district Wenigenhasungen located 2.25 km west-northwest of the mountain.

Nature regions

The Burghasunger mountain belongs to the physiographic feature unit group West Hessian mountain country and sinks ( number 34) or in the main unit hawk forests Bergland ( 342) for natural room background hawk forests peaks ( 342.2 ).

Watercourses

The mountain is happening east of the Warm and southwest from Twiste inflow Erpe. Both are fed by streams that come from the slopes of the mountain, and both ultimately flow to the north at 18 km approximately in east-west direction extending Diemel to.

Reserves

The Burghasunger mountain is part of the 1962 founded and 474.28 km ² large nature park Hawk Forest and the existing since 1968 protected landscape nature park Hawk Forest ( LSG-Nr. 329167 ), which is not to be confused with the ( same ) Nature Park and about around the areas of all in this park nearby towns and their outlying areas is smaller than the park. The plateau of the mountain and located near its core zone, mostly steep and rocky mountain slopes since 1986 as a 9 -hectare nature reserve Burghasunger mountain ( NSG-Nr. 162 652 ) were reported. With this field in terms of area approximately congruent is the Fauna- Flora-Habitat area was later founded Burghasunger mountain ( FFH-Nr. 4621-302 ).

History

In the summer of 1071 occupied Duke Otto of Northeim Hasunger the mountain in his feud IV against the entrenched at the nearby High Dörnberg Emperor Henry

On the mountain once stood the monastery Hasungen, a 1080/1081 AD Benedictine Abbey, of which only a few heaps, and the foundations of the monastery tower are preserved. Located northwest of the tower there is a small natural pond, said to have bathed in the once holy Heimerad († 1019). Heimerod was drawn to the mountain and had taken care of the local Michael's Chapel.

In the village hall Burghasungen located as a branch of the Regional Museum Wolfhager country the monastery museum Hasungen.

Mountain Stage Burghasungen

On the western flank of the mountain beneath high cliffs, the outdoor theater mountain stage Burghasungen whose seats were built from remnants ruins of the former convent Hasungen.

View opportunity

From Burghasunger mountain offers itself in good light conditions, a comprehensive panoramic views. Then, among other things, these objectives are ( clockwise starting in the north) to recognize - with distance in kilometers (km ) and height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ):

  • Big Bear Mountain ( 3 km north, 600.7 m)
  • Zierenberg (5 km north-northeast; city)
  • High Dörnberg (6 km north-east; 578.7 m)
  • Burghasungen ( just east; village)
  • Ehlen (2.5 km to the east; village)
  • Dörnberg (5 km east; village)
  • Vinegar Mountain (5 km east-southeast; 614.7 m)
  • Lindenberg (4 km south-east; 485.3 m)
  • Wattenberg (3 km to the south; 516.2 m)
  • Oelshausen ( 1.5 km south-southwest; village)
  • Weidelsberg (10,5 km southwest; 492.3 m)
  • Isthaberg ( 4km west; 523.1 m)

Are far away from each other side Waldecker Forest ( Weidelsberg 10.5 km south west, max. 492.3 m) of basement forest ( desert garden, 37 km south-southwest, max. 675.3 m) and Rothaargebirge ( Langenberg, 50 km west, to recognize 843.2 m ) max..

Accessiblity / Hiking

Along the eastern flank of the Burghasunger hill leads between junctions Breuna in the northwest and Zierenberg the South East Federal Highway 44 from the exit Zierenberg, about 500 m southeast of Burghasungen on the main road 251, you can - the B 251 leaving again shortly after the junction - by Burghasungen go to the mountain. While you can hike along forest trails and on roads and paths of the village around the mountain, carrying out random ways of beginning at the outdoor stage donkey path and the cliff path, sometimes steeply up to the summit plateau.

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