Limburg (Weilheim an der Teck)

View from the west

The Limburg ( 597.4 m above sea level. NHN ) is the local mountain town Weilheim an der Teck in Baden- Württemberg. The peak of almost perfect cone shaped mountain rises nearly 200 meters above the immediate environment.

What is striking is the structure of the vegetation: the summit is covered with poor grass and some solitary Linden. Below this is a zone of vegetation, on the southern slopes with vineyards, and on the lower mountain slopes extensive orchards.

Geology

The Limburg is a mountain of volcanic origin, more precisely, a formerly active volcanic vent of the Swabian volcano. However, he does not comply, despite its striking cone form the ashes of volcanoes on the type of Etna or Vesuvius. Before about 17 million years ago it came here in huge gas and dust explosions, as seeping water met in the columns of Jura on a magma bubble that had formed in the deep. The torn up rock fell back into the crater and solidified over time to basalt. In this case, no molten lava came to the surface. She remained rather stuck in the volcanic vent and froze there to basalt. In the following year, millions of the Jurassic strata were removed by erosion more and more. The Basalttuffpfropf was more resistant than the surrounding limestone and remained as the northern slopes of the Swabian Alb mountain upstream cone stand and testified that this formerly extended further to the north ( witnesses mountain).

History

Traces of settlement date back to the Neolithic period before 3000-1800 BC. A wrap below the summit paragraph is probably the remains of a fortress from the early Iron Age.

The actual history of Limburg begins with the establishment of a castle, now the ruin Limburg, by Berthold I of Zahringen to 1060. The provost was founded by the Zähringians at the foot of Limburg was in 1093 in the monastery of St. Peter laid on the Black Forest.

Since the 11th century the Limburg is used as a wine region. Viticulture was, however, more and more replaced by an orchard in the 19th century. Today, smaller vineyards are only left on the south side.

The Sage " The dragon on the Limburg " was built according to a chapel at the Limburg.

Nature reserve

With regulation of the Stuttgart Regional Council of 21 December 1990, the entire cone-shaped mountain with numerous biotopes with a total area of ​​161.5 hectares as a nature reserve ( NSG number 1177 ) were recorded. The characteristic, scientific and natural history worth preserving landscape was managed with richly structured pattern of use: extensive orchard meadows, heathland, woodland and scrub areas with Saumpflanzengesellschaften, moist valleys and streams.