Merkur (mountain)
View from Fremersberg about Baden-Baden on Mercury
The Mercury or Large Staufenberg is a 668.3 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the northern Black Forest on the boundaries of the cities of Baden -Baden and Gernsbach. The local mountain of Baden-Baden is accessible from there by funicular railway and site of a lookout and transmission tower.
Name
The mountain is named after the ancient Roman god of trade and commerce Mercurius, which is dedicated to one found on the summit of Roman votive stone. The Mercury stone is attested since the 16th century. A cast of the consecration stone can be seen today on the summit plateau, the original is in the City History collections. The original name of freestanding mountain cone is Big Staufenberg, an allusion to the shape of an inverted drinking cup ( Stauf ).
Cable railway
The Mercury summit is accessible by MerkurBergbahn for visitors only on foot, by bike or by Baden -Baden. Built in 1913, the cable car was shut down in 1967 due to technical reasons in 1979 and returned to service. 1200 meters long overcomes one of the longest funicular railways of Germany has a slope of up to 54%, and it opens up views of Baden -Baden is already in the rail journey.
Attractions
There is a restaurant at the top station. As further offers a sunbathing lawn, a barbecue area and a playground were decorated with a giant slide at the summit. For curative purposes so-called Terrainkurwege different length and pitch are created that can be used not only by spa guests, of course. One of these paths leads to the game reserve at the foot of the mountain, in which red, fallow deer and mouflon live. In a hillside on the Baden-Baden page on Mercury along the trail Premium Panorama Trail. The Mercury summit is a station of the premium hiking trails Gernsbacher round and Murgleiter.
At the top, there are two launch sites for paragliders, one in the west at the mountain station of the Merkur Funicular Railway, the other in a northeasterly direction. Landing sites are meadows below the cable car station in Baden -Baden and above Gernsbach - Staufenberg at the bus stop Neuhaus.
Opened in 2012, presented surroundings on the summit of the geological trail Mercury cube, the different rock types of the Baden -Baden.
Observation tower
At the highest point of the mountain is located in the mid-19th century at 48 ° 45 ' 52 " N, 8 ° 16' 50 " O48.7644444444448.2805555555556 an observation tower, the Mercury Tower. This has been used since April 8, 1950 the then SWF ( today SWR ) as a transmission tower for broadcasting of radio programs in FM range and since 1953 as the site of a television station. End of the 70s, the tower was thoroughly renovated. In this context, there took radio devices have been extended. In addition to an underground operation room a reinforced concrete extension has been built on the side facing away from the Oostal which forms a unit with the observation tower. In this extension, also a visitor elevator was installed among others. The cultivation was started with its establishment in the fall of 1980 and was handed over to his determination in December 1982, is a 23 meter high reinforced concrete structure, which carries on its top a 40 meter high antenna support with transmit antennas for FM radio and TV, and thus an overall height possesses of 63 meters. On the mast and radio antennas, among others, for BWR internal connections are attached.
Panorama
The mountain offers a panoramic view not only across the valley of Baden -Baden, the highest mountains of the Black Forest and the Murg Valley with the towns of Gaggenau and Gernsbach, but also to the Upper Rhine to the Vosges, Haardt and Odenwald. The center of attention are the ruins Hohenbaden that Battertfelsen, the Ruine Alt - Eberstein, the Fremersberg that Yburg that Baden's height and Hornisgrinde as well as the cities of Karlsruhe and Strasbourg.
Geology
The Mercury and the south adjacent Small Staufenberg ( 623.4 m) mountains are witnesses of several layers of sedimentary rocks built up. Ascending from the urban area of Baden- Baden is first place 251-299 million year old deposits and conglomerates of the Rotliegend. Since it is in the enclosed therein larger stones around volcanic rocks (quartz porphyry ), the rocks were given the technical term porphyry conglomerate. Above the Rotliegend find red sandstone, initially Lower and Middle Buntsandstein at higher altitudes sandstone. These rocks are 244-251 million years old.
In the many millions of years ago to 60 million years, many other rock layers have been deposited yet. For 60 million years ago, the Black Forest raises or lowers the grave breach of the Rhine valley. Since then complement the surroundings of via the Middle Buntsandstein strata were removed by erosion again. The erosion formed the valleys around Mercury and the mountain itself
Thanks to the emergence of the Black Forest with its many faults along the edge formed grave. Several columns are available in and around Baden -Baden. One of these columns is from Baden -Baden from Murg valley between Mercury and Battert. She is responsible for the natural hot springs of Baden -Baden. It is underground so deep and wide that large bodies of water can circulate in it and so transport the heat from the Earth's interior to the surface.
To the east of the Little Staufenbergs there are 318-299 million year old rocks of the Upper Carboniferous. In this layer are often located coal seams. In Müllenbachschleife a prospecting was carried out on uranium. The reliably known uranium deposits amounted to 3,000 tons, the uranium content is only 0.2 %, so that a reduction is not economical.
Next southeast of waste stream eventually you come across the foothills of the basement of solid granite.
Frequencies and programs
Analogue radio (FM )
The antenna pattern of the main beam directions are given in degrees in the case of directed radiation.
Digital radio (DAB / DAB )
- SWR1 BW (192 kb / s)
- SWR2 BW (120 kb / s, DAB )
- SWR3 (120 kb / s, DAB )
- SWR4 BW (120 kb / s, DAB )
- DASDING (120 kb / s, DAB )
- SWRinfo (192 kb / s)
- bigFM World Beats (72 kb / s, DAB )
- Black Forest Radio ( 72 kb / s, DAB )
- Live Radio (72 kb / s, DAB )
- Ego FM ( 72 kb / s, DAB )
- Program accompanying supplementary information (DAB )
Medium wave transmitter mast of the SWR
Analog TV (PAL)
Before converting to DVB -T antenna site continued to serve for analog TV: