Hohenzollern (mountain)

Zoller (Southwest view)

The Hohenzollern is a prominent, 855 -meter-high mountain near Hechingen, Baden- Württemberg. The summit of the mountain with the Hohenzollern Castle is located on the boundary of rooms, which today is a little haven of community Bisingen, the northern flank of the mountain is one of Hechingen. On its slopes grows a near-natural beech forest.

Geography

The Hohenzollern is upstream of the escarpment of the Swabian Alb. The mountain is geographically a witness mountain, which is located in a geological fault zone, the Hohenzollern Graben so-called. The grave inner terrain was less severely eroded by relief inversion than the surroundings, and so remained, among others, the Zeller Horn, the upstream Hohenzollern and northwest receive them the Wilhelmhöhe.

The mountain is eponymous for the geographic region Zollernalb, part of the Swabian Alb.

History

For the year 1061 the name was first mentioned in the chronicle of Berthold of Reichenau, this is called Burchardus and Wezil " de Zolorin " that had fallen. The name is derived from upper room, which means as much as height. He is popularly known today, the Zoller mountain or in the short form Zoller.

In the Middle Ages, probably in the 11th century, the Hohenzollern Castle was built on the mountain for the first time. The existing after two destruction facility today dates from the 19th century.

The Zoller is the focus of Hohenzollern song.

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Baden- Württemberg
• Mountain under 1000 meters
• Mountain in Zollernalbkreis
• Mountain of the Swabian Alb
• Bisingen
• Geography ( Hechingen )