Firnskuppe

The Firnskuppe is a 313.9 meter high rocky basalt knoll on the eastern edge of the High hawk forest near Kassel (North Hesse, Germany ).

Geography

The rocky hilltop is located northwest of the village of Kassel city part Harleshausen in goshawk forest, making it a part of the nature park Hawk Forest. Only about 650 meters (direct distance ) north-east of the intersection of B 251 ( Wolfhager Street ) and state road 3217 ( Rasenallee ) it projects - quite well hidden among the trees of the forest Harleshausen - up to 55 meters above her only slightly north of the upstream edge of the forest up.

To the north, the area falls to the Firnskuppe about the forest upstream fields and meadows to the ancestor back from, east to the northeast foothills of Habichtswalds about the Lambert ( 292 m above sea level. NN ) put something away, to the south the terrain falls also over fields and meadows from the Horny and to the west, the actual forest hawk joins.

The heavily forested with beech Firnskuppe, at the summit of the basalt is not covered by earth, falling on all sides usually quite steeply, the northern summit, which is a few feet lower, on its northern side even vertically.

On the heavily wooded plateau, which is upstream of the Firnskuppe south, springs from the small Firnsbach, the west passes through the basalt dome, to then flow toward the northeast. In its lower reaches Rain Bach called, opens the stream in Obervellmar into the already above- mentioned ancestor.

History

Even before Christ the region was visited by the Firnskuppe of people, which is evident not only in several remains of burial mounds from the La Tène period, the south-east are the top near the swimming pool on Harleshäuser Gentiles and Fuchsküppel. In the Middle Ages, the Firnskuppe refuge from predators and gangs of thieves.

Inside the mountain earlier underground for ore, coal or minerals ( hornblende and olivine ) was sought. Just a few meters below the rocky summit of Firnskuppe located in the bedrock continues to be the low vertical mining shaft, branches off another side vaults or tunnels from the mountain. Across the bay on the top of the date January 18, 1643 to have been read. The upper end of the shaft or the input is secured by an old iron gate. In the rocky soil structure of the mountain summit, in which a hole is located directly across the bay, a grid was introduced for security reasons, so you do not accidentally falls straight down. In October 1821 Hecker Hauser Schäfer Bernhard cancer fell into the well and died after his rescue.

Mythology

The Firnskuppe located in the mining shaft, also called Say shaft is referred to in the north Hessian mythology as always to be avoided Direction " way to the underworld ." According to legend, a shepherd there should be plunged his entire flock of sheep and disappeared for ever and ever in it. According to another story, a jealous groom has killed a grenadier of the local garrison in dispute and thrown into the pit.