Moritzberg (Franconian Jura)
The Moritzberg seen in the Franconian Alb, from the north-west of the district Laufer Tauchersreuth from
The Moritzberg is a striking 603.5 m above sea level. NN witnesses high mountain in the Franconian Alb in the urban areas of running and Röthenbach and in the municipality of Leinburg in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land, Bavaria ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The wooded Moritz mountain rises 1.25 km east-southeast of Haimendorf, an east - southeastern district of Röthenbach. Meanwhile hamlet Moritzberg located on the summit plateau of the mountain. Up close to the summit plateau zoom in northeastern reaches the urban area of around six kilometers away, run whose district Weigenhofen is located north of the mountain. Also close to the plateau reaches as in the east and south, the municipality of Leinburg whose districts Weiherberg, ( the same ) Leinburg and Diepersdorf, southeast, south and southwest of Mount Moritz lie.
Nature Spatial allocation
The area around the Moritz mountain forms a sub - space of Nature Laufer foreland ( 112.0 ), which is counted to the main unit foreland of the northern Franconian Alb (112 ), see Frankish Keuper- Lias country.
Geology
Geologically, the Moritzberg to Albvorland because it was removed by erosion over time of the actual Alb. This is referred to by a witness mountain.
Sanctuary
The Moritz mountain is located in the western part of the company founded in 2001 and 172.21 square kilometers of protected landscape area "Southern Jura with Moritzberg and environment" ( LSG-Nr. 322 763 ).
Geotop
On the plateau of the summit there are numerous quarries and test pits, probably dating from the Bronze Age. Presumably Bohnerz were promoted. The test pit field is shown by the Bavarian State Office for Environment as Geotop 574G004. See also the list of geological sites in the district Nürnberger Land.
History
Prehistory
The now highly disturbed by medieval limestone and iron ore mining plateau -like summit of the mountain was inhabited in prehistoric times. Numerous reader finds that consist of ceramic fragments, stone tools, stone discounts and a spiral ring of bronze wire, evidence of the past. A first short-term colonization took place during the early Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic ), this field station was located on the ridge to the eastward subsequent 538.9 meters high mountain Reuther. Today, the square is an archaeological monument.
From the Neolithic Age (Neolithic ) and Bronze Age are just a few finds before, so that a settlement can not be confirmed with certainty.
A re- colonization took place during the middle to late urnfield time, finds that deriving from the northern half of the summit plateau. Whether the rest of the plateau was inhabited, is difficult to prove because of the stone degradation. At the end of Urnfield also cancels the settlement, a process as it is in many hill settlements, for example, in the nearby Houbirg shows.
The last Prehistoric settlement dates from the later period between Hallstatt and early La Tène periods. From this period finds are from the entire plateau is known, which also is a ground monument today.
Middle Ages
On the summit plateau of the mountain Moritz, built in 1419 and dedicated to St. Mauritius mountain chapel of St. Maurice is (or also known as Moritz mountain chapel ). After the construction of this chapel was originally designated as " Leinburg " mountain that gave its name to the lying at its foot community, renamed Moritzberg. This chapel had the Nürnbergische patrician Herdegen Valzner erected and its history was closely linked with lock Haimendorf and Rockenbrunn.
Modern Times
1841 was the Bavarian King Ludwig I intend to build on the Moritzberg either the later addition of Kelheim Hall of Liberation or the Valhalla. These plans were never realized, and only at the beginning of the 20th century it came to the realization of a larger construction project. From the year 1910 on the summit plateau of the mountain has long been a planned observation tower - the Moritzberg tower - built, which was finally completed in 1913 provisionally. However, the originally conceived expansion height of the tower could not be realized because the mainly applied from donations of funding is no longer sufficient.
During the 17-18. Century, a fraternity house was built in the immediate vicinity of the chapel, which had at times also made the accommodation of a hermit. Today, this partly in half-timbered house building is used as a restaurant.