Schiener Berg

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The Schienerberg called rare Schienerberg is, at 708 meters above sea level, the highest elevation of the Hori peninsula on the western Lake Constance.

The ridge, which is mainly composed of layers of the Upper Freshwater Molasse ( OSM) and a blanket of glacial gravels ( Nagelfluh ) today is a wooded area, bounded away from Lake Zell and moss in the north- east and from the submarine to the southeast and is located between Radolfzell am Bodensee and Stein am Rhein in the municipality of Oehningen in the district of Konstanz in Baden- Württemberg in Germany. directly on the border with Switzerland, Stein am Rhein 1954, the largest part of the mountain to the conservation area and as is " Voralpines hill and moorland " classified.

On the mountain there is the village of rails with the rails and the former monastery ruins Schrotzburg as well as already belonging to Switzerland Hohenklingen Castle and the ruins of Wolkenstein.

The Schienerberg hosted the so-called " Schienerberg race ", a motor racing event of the last century.

Fossils reference of quarry Oehningen

On the southern slope of the mountain Schienerberg is the famous fossil sites in the body Oehninger limestones ( Upper Freshwater ). There was in 1726 the Swiss Johann Jakob Scheuchzer ( 1672-1733 ), Zurich's doctor and naturalist, which is about a meter wide fossilized skeleton of a living 14 million years ago giant salamander ( Andrias scheuchzeri ). This fossil was interpreted by him as " homo diluvii testis ", a " troubled leg skeleton of an old sinner," one in the " deluge " ( Flood), even then, was the giant salamander as of the greatest sensational discovery in the quarry of Oehningen and was foundation of Scheuchzer'schen theory of " flood people." It was only in 1809 succeeded the French naturalist Georges Cuvier ( 1769-1832 ) to correct the correct interpretation of the bones as the remains of an amphibian and this mistake, later succeeded the Dutchman Jan van der Hoeven ( 1801-1868 ), naturalist, was in classify the correct location of the system. The original is now in the Teylers Museum of the City of Haarlem.