Großer Ölberg
Great Mount of Olives
The Great Mount of Olives (also Mount Olivet ) is 460.1 m above sea level. NHN is the highest mountain in the Seven Mountains. It is located within the city limits of King Winter near the hamlet Ittenbach and south side of a summit with the name Little Mount of Olives ( 331.7 m above sea level. NHN ).
Due to the transmission tower on its summit it is already today to see from a distance, for example, by the Federal Highway 3, and is so also because of its height, well distinguishable from the other mountains. At the summit there is a restaurant with panoramic terrace, which offers a very good look at the Seven Mountains and in the High Eifel with the Hohe Acht and head west.
Name history
The Great Mount of Olives was originally named Ma ( e) the Mount of Olives, the e expresses no umlaut, but strain e is. For the first time the summit in a pledge Protocol of 1407, it was mentioned in the place name " geleygen to the Maelberg " occurs. In descriptions of the Seven Mountains of the Mount of Olives in part, until the middle of the 19th century "Ma ( h) lberg " was called. " Time " in this context means " conspicuous signs" ( as in " monument ", " birthmark "). The mountain is so named for its function as a distinctive landmark, for it marked the border between the Electoral Cologne and the lion Freiburgische Bann district.
Local dialect, the name " Malberg " like " Mohlberg " pronounced. In addition, the mountain was mostly mentioned in connection with prepositions, so they said "am", " when " or " encouraging Mohlberg ". This was the " M" no longer audible at the beginning of the name and it finally came to the wrong consonant replacement " on / at / cheer Ohlberg ". Thus, since the mid-17th century by the " Ohleberg " or " Mount of Olives " is mentioned and only since the end of the 18th century often also from the " Mount of Olives ", that is only at this time began the strain e as umlaut misunderstand. Today the spelling " Mount of Olives " and " Mount of Olives " are about the same frequency, even if the " Mount of Olives " is etymologically more correct.
Because the origin of the mountain name was not always known, it was partly to incorrect speculation. Ernst Moritz Arndt wrote an essay in 1843, he called the mountain " Auelberg " because in the Middle Ages he vorfinde the Auelgau here. This statement still leads today partly to the wrong indication, the Great Mount of Olives have previously been called Auelberg, although these invented until the 19th century form of the name is nowhere to prove historically. It has also been suggested, Cistercian monks from Heisterbach have renamed the Maelberg according to the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem; However, such an intentional renaming is also undetectable.
Transmitter
The Great Mount of Olives will be used as the site of several multimedia transmission systems due to its proximity to the city of Bonn. On the northwest slope (ZDF, VOX and WDR television) were up to the November 8, 2004 antennas for transmission of analog television signals. Since the changeover to digital terrestrial television DVB- T television supply in the region Bonn is only guaranteed through the transmitter Bonn- Venusberg, which the plant was obsolete on the Great Mount of Olives. A highly visible concrete pole on the mountaintop is home to an FM radio station (Radio Bonn / Rhein-Sieg ) and multiple mobile stations. Distributed around the mountain peaks also exist platforms for directional antennas. Even the amateur radio relay DB0SG ( 439.050 MHz) there is located. Due to the exposed position of this relay has a large catchment area are well over Cologne addition.
Current use
The following radio programs are broadcast: (November 2010)
Earlier use
Prior to Analog TV times, a long time were broadcast the following TV channel:
They have already been shut down in connection with the DVB-T introduction in the Cologne / Bonn and the Ruhr area on 8 November 2004. The transmitter for ZDF was shut down on 24 May 2004.