Hohlestein

Autumn at Hohle Stein ( front right) with High Dörnberg ( back left)

Hohler Stein is a 476.6 m above sea level. NN high hilltop in the district of Ahnatal in the district of Kassel, North Hesse ( Germany ).

The natural monument Hollow Stone is a prehistoric burial, worship and sacrificial site of La Tène period.

Geography

Geographical location

Hohler Stein rises in the northeast part of the nature park forest hawk around 9 km (air line) west-northwest of Kassel between Ahnatal -Weimar and hawk forest Dörnberg. While around 1 km to the west of the High Dörnberg 578.7 m above sea level. NN rises, the site of the cave stone falls to the east in the valley of the ancestor.

On the small summit plateau of wooded Book of Hohle Stein is a geodetic survey point and at the southern foot of the mountain is a refuge. In 600 m distance south is the cave of stone Katzenstein (approx. 430 m ), a peak only at the island-like wooded knoll in front.

River and watershed

Hohler Stein lies, as well as the High Dörnberg, on the watershed between Fulda and Diemel, a part of the Diemel-Eder/Fulda/Weser-Wasserscheide. The springing of Hohle Stein on the eastern slopes of the High Dornberg or something northwest village stream (also called Servitutgraben; 4.8 km long) to the ancestor and then drained into the Fulda, during the approach of the High Hawk Forest stream running Kress Born (2.7 miles) ultimately the west coming from the same area of ​​origin Lubach ( called the upper reaches Laubach; 4.9 km ), the heat and then the Diemel tends ( waters lengths loud). Finally, Fulda and Diemel open into the Weser.

Nature Spatial allocation

→ for details see paragraph Nature regions of the article " Dörnberg and terror mountains "

Hohler Stein heard in the physiographic feature unit group West Hessian Mountains and sink the country ( number 34) or in the main unit hawk forests Bergland ( 342) for natural space Dörnberg and terror mountains ( 342.3 ) and its subunit Dörnberg pass ( 342.30 ).

Geology

The rock formations of the cave stone is made of basalt, a Limburgit of basatoiden Trachydolerits, and has nearly vertical walls. The summit is an almost flat, small plateau. On the north side of the basalt walls are 13 m and 25 m on the south side steeply sloping. The horizontally stratified columnar basalt stone of the cave is geologically that the rock is the residue of running in a northwest-southeast direction basalt passage of the High Dornberg is.

History

A special feature of the archaeological cave stone is a 2 m wide, 2 m long and 1 m deep, artificially sunken, square basalt quarry on the summit plateau. Depending on the season and rainfall is more or less rain water collects in this depression.

This system was perhaps a funeral, cult of sacrifice and the Celts in the 3rd century BC and the La Tène period. Probably the artificial trough initially served as the site of a cremation burial. This assumption is supported by the discovery of a bronze ring in 1905, which is interpreted as a grave side dish. Later the well was used as a base for a military base of a village-like, walled with a ring wall settlement of oppida - civilization in the late 2nd to 1st century BC. 1905 prehistoric shards have been found from the 3rd millennium BC at Hohle Stein, 1951 on the eastern slope of the basalt dome near the basalt rocks a large number of fragments of pottery from the La Tène culture as well as fragments of daub of a Celtic support point from the late 2nd to 1st century BC A chat tables using the cult place is not assignable.

Today the steep basalt walls of the cave stone be used as a climbing area. The basalt dome that can be climbed without aid only in the north.

Approach

From Kassel can be reached via the B 251 ( Wolfhager road ) that leads from the Harleshausen district to the west of the municipality Hawk Forest, the stone cave; The road leads into a road curve at a gravel plant on Dörnberg pass to a maximum of 393.8 m above sea level. NN. Leave the car at the restaurant Ahnetal back uphill through the forest and follows the footpath sign F or M ( fairy tale land), or kept it from reaching the valley, at the parking lot Triffelsbühl and runs on field paths to the mountain. There is a shelter at the edge of the woods below the summit or on said trails.