Lotterberg

View from the Lotterberg of Altenbrunslar.

The Lotter Mountain is a forested basalt knoll east of the hamlet Gudensberger deuterons in the Hessian Schwalm -Eder -Kreis ( Germany ).

Geology

The Lotter is a mountain 305 meters above sea level. NN high, Miocene volcanic chimney filling. The volcanic activity of Mount Lotter began 20 million years ago and ended 7 million years ago. This volcano was one of many in the West Hessian Depression. The solidified basalt has a silica content of 45-55 %. Main constituent of basalt are plagioclase, augite, and olivine.

Collected on the western leeward slopes in the wind shadow of loess.

Flora

The Lotterberg today mischbewaldet and is used for forestry. Through succession settled on the fertile mineral soil on Lotterberg plants on.

Botanical rarity is the blooming on the top and a nature reserve Türkenbundlilie today.

History

The area around the mountain was inhabited Lotter demonstrably early time. A significant archaeological finds is a single stone age asymmetrical faceted Neolithic ax.

1921 opened the Hessian State Office for Monument floor several Neolithic grave hills of the West German Beaker culture in Blackbird wood at the foot of Mount Lotter from the 2nd millennium BC About the original soil was a weak stone interspersed layer. The hills were heaped up of pure sand. Were discovered two archaeological significance spotted flints.

In addition, an early Iron Age urn field from the 5th century BC was uncovered at Lotterberg. On the summit an Iron Age hillfort dating from the 4th was to the 1st century BC remains of the attachment and colonization of plant are no longer detectable, but archaeologists found on the mountain, a large number of Iron Age sherds, which prove the prehistoric settlement. The discovered on the Lotterberg Iron Age pottery is consistently overly structured and heavily infiltrated with quartz blocks. Contrasting the ceramics vary between yellow and gray brown. Another archaeologically significant single Fund is a native of the Achszeitalter Roman mortar.

The Lotterberg " 1929 " as a part of him as "hill -top" designated Gudensberger basalt knoll landscape: 1929 mentioned the Berlin via Kassel to Marburg traveling American- British writer WH Auden in his poem.

Time passes in Hesse, in Gutensberg With hill -top and evening holds me up Tiny observer of enormous world.

Amselhof

The Amselhof, also called yard for Blackbird, is a detached farmhouse and a former tavern on the eastern edge of the forest of the Lotter mountain. A now- defunct medieval trail led on Amselhof over to Kassel. 1539 acres at the Amenschebnborg mentioned in Kassel Salbuch in the wolf Ershausener district. A Situated on Lotterberg Blackbird castle was mentioned in 1558. The Amselhof belonging to Blackbird Forest was proven in 1579 used by the villagers Haldorfs. In the present in Marburg State Archives of cadastral Wolfershausen from 1694 and the local field map of the village in 1688, the homestead is The Blackbird, not yet scheduled, but the oldest parts of the inn 1694-1748 were built. For the first time the inn is mentioned in an undated Katastervorbeschreibung from this period. At the end of the 17th century, the parcel was again called Blackbird Castle. However, there has never been at this point a castle in the military sense, although in 1746 96 acre forest of Haldorf again Blackbird Castle were called.

Today's half-timbered building with sandstone foundation was Johann Hermann Alheit 1776 build with the wood of the previous house. Sits above the finely designed door on the right oak beams a blackbird on a branch. In the first half of the 18th century, John Umbach kept an inn in Amselhof. In 1932, Konrad Dittmar the 27 -acre farm and forest arable farm and then handed this to his son Charles Dittmar. Until the 1970s, it still felt transported back to the 19th century at the Amselhof because there was no electricity, no running water and no telephone. The residents spent the evenings with petroleum lamplight.

The Amselhof is Handlungsort the 1933 story published in " The Red House " of the Kassel writer William Ide.

Horses grave

In belonging to Lotterberg Blackbird wood near the Amselhof is the horse grave. The Romanesque grave stone of red sandstone decorated with two horses' heads. In the grave plate are the words: "Here lie Bella and Rosa, the 15th June 1868 ," engraved. The two buried horses do not come here, as long suspected, I. Isabel from the sixes team of the last Hessian Elector Count Friedrich Wilhelm

However, there are two oral traditions about the history of the horse's grave. In the first tradition is with the horses by two carriage horses, with which a shooting tenant from Kassel back often laid the way to his hunting ground Blackbird forest on Lotterberg. The aging horses were finally no longer cope with the efforts and the shooting tenant was not to give the horses into inappropriate hands, they shoot on June 15, 1868 Blackbird wood.

A second according to tradition, it is the two horses buried here by two dapple the Pensioner Biermann from Kassel widow. After the animals were older and could no longer be used as carriage horses, the beer 's widow wanted to bring the horses in their hunting ground by a farmer. The horses should be kept for breeding. Since you refused the request of the owner, she let the 12 - and 13 -year old mares by their hunter Captain von Eschwege shoot in Blackbird wood.

Saga

The living on the Lotterberg giant Lothar threw a boulder after the fleeing giant Cunibert. This had tried to kidnap Tommy's beloved Nagathe on the Holy Mountain. The rock remained in his sleeve hang and beat on a field as giant stone north of the Eder.