Großer Bärenberg

Big Bear Mountain (left with tower ) from the east ( High Dörnberg )

The Big Bear Mountain ( most popularly known only Bear Mountain ) is 600.7 m above sea level. NN is the highest mountain in the background hawk forest knolls and the second highest of the hawk forests and highlands located in Zierenberg in northern Hesse Kassel district.

Nationally known is the towering mountain as the site of the lookout tower and transmission tower with excellent views of Bear Mountain possibility.

• 3.1 Observation tower
• 3.2 transmitter

Geography

Geographical location

The Big Bear Mountain rises in the nature park Hawk Forest approximately 16.5 kilometers (direct distance ) north- west of the city of Kassel. In the Diemel inflow Warm north accompanying hawk sink forests are 3 km north-east of its summit the core city of Zierenberg and good 4 km south-east Ehlen (municipality Hawk Forest ). The largest part of the mountain belongs to the district of Zierenberg, its southern and southwestern edge among Wolf Hagen.

Beyond and to the west of the Great Bear Mountain are just 3 km southwest Wenigenhasungen and Altenhasungen at Valley of Twiste influx Erpe; 4 km to the west is Nothfelden and on Erpe inflow Dase good 3 km north-west Oberelsungen - down to the last place belonging to Zierenberg all areas of Wolf Hagen. About 3 km south-southeast of the mountain is located in the middle on the top line, located on the mountain Burghasunger Grace Berger district Burghasungen.

The route of the A44 forms the north and east, a relatively sharp boundary to hawk forests sink that country road 3390 such a southward to the local hilltops Burghasunger mountain ( 479.7 m; 3 km) and Wattenberg ( 516.2 m; 6 km ).

The other three height priorities of Habichtswalds located about 5 km easterly ( High Dörnberg, 578.7 m, Dörnberg and terror mountains ), 8 km south-east ( Tall grass, 614.8 m, High Hawk Forest ) and 12 km south-southeast ( Schwengeberg, 556, 7 m, Langeberge ) distance.

Mountain height and peak

The Big Bear Mountain is 600.7 meters high, which can be seen around 50 to 60 meters northwest of Bear Mountain Tower on a map altitude. About 80 m north-northwest of the tower there is a trigonometric point ( 598.7 m).

For Bear Mountain range also depending on a ruined castle enacting tops of the ruined castle Large include Gudenberg ( 568.7 m), approximately 2 km north of the main summit, and the ruins Small Gudenberg ( 531.8 m), 1.65 km north- north-east, and the domed on Wolfshagener district lying pipe Berg ( 516.7 m), about 1.3 km south-southeast.

Watercourses

The Bear Mountain massif, each approximately 3 km to the summit, east passed by Diemel inflow Warm, southwest from Twiste inflow Erpe and northwest of the Erpe inflow Dase. These rivers are fed by several short streams that come from the slopes of the mountain. This represents the massif part of the watershed between Twiste in the West and in the East Warm Represents the water of all these rivers flowing to the end of the north at 15 km approximately in east-west direction extending Diemel.

Nature Spatial allocation

The Big Bear Mountain is one of the main physiographic 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 ).

Reserves

The Big Bear 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 ( homonymous ) Nature Park and about around the areas of all in this park nearby towns and their outlying areas is smaller than the park. On the west flank of the mountain nature reserve hat, founded in 1990, 34 hectares is located in front of the Bear Mountain ( NSG-Nr. 163835 ). This, in turn, is one of several parts of the Fauna-Flora -Habitat - area forests in Zierenberg ( FFH-Nr. 4621-306 ), two more parts to the tube of the mountain are, südsüdöstlichen the foothills of the Great Bear Mountain.

Bear Mountain Tower

Stands on the crest of the Great Bear Mountain, a few meters east-southeast of its summit, the Bear Mountain Tower ( ⊙ 51.3521527777789.2679861111111 ), an observation tower with transmitter:

Observation tower

In the early 1970s, a 30 m high observation tower was built on the Great Bear mountain from which you initially could see over the treetops of time and on the antennas were installed later. Its square design began to rust and eventually the tower was canceled.

About 60 m southeast of the highest point of the Great Bear Mountain was established in early 1999, the new Bear Mountain Tower, a modern tower with transmitter (see below), completed as a steel truss structure. It is situated just below the 600 -m contour line.

From its observation deck ( with wooden floor ) and there are in good visibility conditions, a comprehensive panoramic views. Then include these targets (depending from north to south, ie west side counterclockwise and east clockwise) to recognize - with distance in kilometers (km ) and height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ):

West side

• Eggegebirge (47 km; 468 m)
• Rothaargebirge Langenberg (50 km; 843.2 m)
• Ettelsberg (47 km; 837.7 m)
• Hegekopf (48 km; 842.9 m)
• Clemens Berg (49 km; 839.1 m)
• Hopper head (48 km; 832.3 m)
• Schlossberg (47 km; 791.3 m)
• Reetsberg (48 km, 791.4 m)
• Bollerberg (50 km, 757.7 m)

• Traddelkopf (32 km; 626.4 m)
• Thick head (28 km; 603.7 m)

East side

• Lipper Bergland Köterberg (56 km; 495.8 m)

• Zierenberg (3 km; city)

• Big Schreckenberg (4 km; 460 m)
• High Dörnberg (5 km; 578.7 m)

• Dörnberg (5 km; village)
• Vinegar hill ( 614.8 m)

• Lindenberg ( 7 km; 485.3 m)
• Schwengeberg (12 km; 556.7 m)

Transmitter

The transmission system on the Bärnbergturm was installed in the building in 1999 for broadcast packet radio with eight directional antennas on the antenna platform to 43.5 m in height and two round lamps at 53 m height.

Cyril

On 18 and 19 January 2007, the hurricane Kyrill including by Germany and left behind especially in the formerly densely wooded knoll area of the Great Bear Mountain widespread damage. While doing the local tree population was almost completely destroyed, no damage was done to the tower and antennas.

Chat stones

On the eastern flank of the bear mountain range - below the highway or above Zierenberg - are located in the treeless part of the mountainside in the 340 -meter contour line the Chatti stones ( also shade stones called ), a designated as a natural monument basalt rock formation. There was probably a place of worship of the Germanic tribe people chatting, who settled for example in the area of ​​present-day northern Hesse; was later Hesse from the name of chatting. Immediately northeast of it is a transmission tower.

Desertions

Also on the east flank of the bear mountain range - below the highway - lying at the mountainside three abandoned settlements: a little north-west of Zierenberg the deserted village Geriksen, west of the town, the deserted village Hilboldsen and northeast of its Südausläufers tube Berg ( 516.7 m ) or above the Good Bodenhausen the deserted village Rohrbach.

Transport links and Hiking

Along the eastern flank of the Bear Mountain massif leads between junctions Breuna in the northwest and south-southeast Zierenberg in the federal highway 44, connecting from their exits several state roads located around the massif villages with each other. Of these roads in some branch roads from parking lots on the mountain, of which forest roads are often steep climb can be a leader, for example, migrated to the Bear Mountain Tower or to the two Gudenbergen. Over the southern flank of the Great Bear Mountain into east-west direction between the villages Dörnberg and Altenhasungen a piece of the trail path students ( " X13 "). North to the mountain range runs around the section Zierenberg Oberelsungen - Altenhasungen the railway line Volkmarsen - Vellmar - Obervellmar.