Rechberg (mountain)

The Rechenberg seen from the Hohenstaufen in the west

The Rechenberg is a south of Schwäbisch Gmünd situated, 707.9 m above sea level. NHN witnesses high mountain on the northern edge of the Swabian Alb. Together with the southeast, and Stuifen Lying west Hohenstaufen it forms the most visible silhouette of the Three Emperors mountains. Since 1979, the Rechenberg is nationally recognized recreation area.

Geography

The computational mountain rises about 5 km south of the center of Schwäbisch Gmünd on the boundary of the district Rechenberg, lying with two separate parts settlement on the western and Südostfuß on the mountain. This has an approximately long isosceles floor plan with the base in the east, where the higher Kirchberg with a 1.5-2 acre open plateau up to 707.9 m above sea level. NHN rises while the lower spur Schlossberg at the sharp corner in the West after a not very deep saddle only 644.2 m above sea level. NHN achieved. The majority of the slopes is forested.

Coming from the west through the watershed between the river systems of the north Rems and Fils in the south on the spur on to the plateau, and it veers southward from. In the south, Krumm drained to Fils, in the east of Rechbach and in the northeastern Tobelbach over the Waldstetter Bach to Rems and the rest of the north of the Tiefenbach with its source arms Felbenbach torrent and further west and also down in this.

Coming from the north Straßdorf climbs the L in 1159 in a large hairpin the lower northern slope of the mountain and then runs on its middle eastern slope after the larger settlement part of Rechenberg on Südostfuß. From there opens up a road on the southern slope of the smaller district in the west and then descends into the valley of the Krumm.

History

Already since the 15th century was the Rechenberg destination of pilgrimages. Today, in the midst of the open summit plateau is the built in 1686/88 of Count Bernhard Bero von Rechenberg Baroque pilgrimage church of St. Mary.

On the western spur of the mountain, the ruins Hohenrechberg on the smaller district of computing mountain looms. This at the time of the Hohenstaufen built, first mentioned in 1179 ancestral castle of the later Counts of Rechenberg was the center of their realm.

Geology

Before 205 million years, the Jurassic sea stretched over much of present-day southern Germany. Over the next 60 million years camped in it about 600 meters Jurassic sediments, which are divided into Lower, Middle and Upper Jurassic strata. Later, the terrain was raised over the sea.

Over time, there was turmoil, which sank some clods of the harder Upper Jurassic package into the softer underlying layers. While the erosion first abtrug the Upper Jurassic in the immediate vicinity, remained his sunken parts protected. As the erosion then abtrug the softer layer, the sunken layers could withstand it longer, so they now are in the form of three Upper Jurassic - witnesses mountains Hohenrechberg, Stuifen and Hohenstaufen prominently on their immediate environment (relief reversal).