Mader Stein

The cock with Edermünde -Holzhausen from southeast

The rooster is a 255.8 m above sea level. NN high, in the northern Hessian Schwalm -Eder Eder mouths at the community town of Holzhausen (hence Holzhausen called on tap) located basalt knoll in the West Hessian mountain country.

On the tap, which is recognized as a Natural Monument area (FND ), should once have stood a castle.

Geographical location

The cock rises as part of the Kassel basin in the west Hessian Depression immediately north of the core of the village of Holzhausen, through which the small Eder inflow of pilgrims stream flows. East of the crest is a football pitch. The mountain is surrounded around the west, south and south-east from the village. West passes in a north-south direction, the Federal Highway 49

Castle story

At the tap of the Hessian Gaugraf Werner to IV († 1121 ), the width- founded the monastery in 1113, have built a castle around 1100. It is first mentioned in 1111 and was probably a castle tower, with a bailey on the lower-lying plateau. The plant was probably destroyed already in 1294 and fell into disuse after 1346. From the castle ruins is still reported in the 16th century and the early 19th century, when they picked from there material for road construction, they found bricks and mortar residues, remnants of the moat and human bones. Today nothing remains of this system.

Find out more

The rooster has about two acres of woodland, the basalt rocks and its south-eastern flank are deforested. The road to the summit was made ​​by wooden houses citizens in the years 1999 and 2000 and again is good to hike. From there, you have a good view of Holzhausen and in the surrounding area.

Itemization

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Hesse
• Mountain under 1000 meters
• Mountain in the Schwalm -Eder-Kreis
• Gudensberg