Kronsberg

The Kronsberg is a six kilometer long ridge on the southeastern outskirts of Hanover between the Hannover Exhibition Grounds with the Expo Park Hanover and the Bockmerholz. The Kronsberg towers over the adjacent surfaces up to 30 meters. The highest point of Kronberg is the observation hill with a height of 118 m above sea level. NN and is therefore only four meters lower than the artificial Nordberg on the site of the landfill Hannover- Lahe in the Lahe district. The Kronsberg is the highest natural elevation of the city and consists mainly of calcareous marl.

Description

The survey covers about 2,000 acres of Kronsberg. Originally, the mountain had a height of 106 m above sea level. NN. Through the two artificially raised, twelve meter high observation hill, the height is 118 meters. They are located in the southern and the northern area and allow an expansive view of Hanover and the surrounding mountain ranges, such as the Deister. The edge with trees planted hill views emerged in the late 1990s and also serve as a design element. Your floor consists of Kalkmergelgestein derived from the construction at Kronsberg. The slope surfaces of the oval-shaped hills are unplanted and used heat - and lime-loving plants for the settlement.

On the mountain area there are three wind turbines, including the E-66 wind turbine Südkronsberg. In addition, leads the Green ring, a hiking and biking trail around Hanover, on the eastern slope of the undeveloped Kronsberg. At the western foot of Kronsberg there is a branch of computer science and the main financial management at LBS Nord, which are also found in the past Expo buildings. Since the late 1980s there is a development and training center of the IT group IBM.

On the eastern slope of the Kronsberg lie the forested Habitats protected areas Gaim and Bockmerholz. The northern foothills of the Kronsberg ends at the county road in Misburg district. On the edge of the spur, south of Misburg, is the area of ​​Anderten.

History

Originally, the mountain area was covered with forest, which is probably composed of hornbeam and oak, as the nearby former wood-pastures and Gaim Bockmerholz. In medieval clearings of the forest stands indicates the - rode- local name of the nearby Wülferode.

The regiments of the short - brunswick - Lüneburg Army found early in 1735 to take a big military parade on Kronsberg, called the Review of Bemerode. Even at the time of the Kingdom of Hanover (1814-1866) used the Hanoverian army, the area for military exercises. After the annexation of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1866, this tradition was continued by the stationed in Hannover X Army Corps. In the years 1874, 1881, 1889 and 1907, the Emperor parades took place here in the Imperial maneuvers. At the last parade in 1907 took 46,000 soldiers participate in the presence of Emperor Wilhelm II.

In memory of the emperor visits a memorial stone in the form of an obelisk was erected in 1889 on a pedestal. This so-called parade stone built according to an inscription patriots from the environment in the then still existing Bemeroder windmill. In addition to the memorial stone parts of the time belonging to the mill housing and farm buildings have been preserved to this day Wasseler road. You already served in the early 20th century as a picnic area and currently accommodate a hotel and restaurant.

Between 1904 and 1914, who lives in Hanover heath poet Hermann Lons held frequently in Müllingen, from where he hiked the Kronsberg and Bockmerholz nature watching.

In the 1970s there were plans for residential development of Kronsberg to cover the demand for housing, but have not been implemented.

Transformation of the Expo 2000

Until the World Expo 2000, the Kronsberg was a mostly barren and cultivated as arable area landscape space. With regard to the World's Fair, the exhibition grounds handed approach to the foot of the collection, it came in the late 1990s to the transformation of large-scale scenic mountain area. She was passed to the remote Expo project, the targets in the ecological optimization of the landscape and the creation of an ecological residential development. The west side facing the city has since been characterized by the resulting 1998 Expo settlement in Bemerode district, which pulls up the western slope. In the settlement there is the Evangelical Church Centre Kronsberg. Large parts of the undeveloped Kronsberg were naturally designed to equalizing spaces with grass and bush -lined Allmendeflächen as meadows and pastures, tree-lined avenues and scale afforestation on the ridge. With a narrow road network of the mountain area also serves as a park-like recreation area. This concept was also an environmentally friendly agriculture Kronsberg and a regional marketing their products, for which a model village of Herrmann Landwerkstätten was built at the foot of the mountain. However, it filed for bankruptcy in 2004, since then the agricultural systems are operated as Kronsberghof on. In the residential buildings a drug clinic has been established.

Sheep grazing in landscape Kronsberg

Summit cross on the northern hill, an artificial hill views

Sheep grazing on the northern hill

South Hill and wind turbine Südkronsberg