Sonneberg (hill)
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The Sonnenberg, also called book mountain, with 401.0 m above sea level after the fox mountain ( 422 m ) and the Hahneberg (410 m ) and a 403.2 m above sea level high unnamed elevation ( about 600 m north of the Sonnenberg ) the fourth highest mountain in the corridors of the city Spremberg ( Saxony).
Location and Name
The Sonnenberg is located approximately 500 meters southwest of the eponymous hamlet Sonnenberg in a wooded area near the Czech border, which is referred to as "frontier forest ". The Neusiedler of Spremberger local part called the mountain probably why " Sonnebereg " or " Mountain of the Sun" because the day-star went down in their forest angle late on his tops in the West. The alternative name book mountain derives from the " book" from which today helps to shape than copper beech forest stocks. Used to be called the mountain after its owner Wauer, a Sonneberger peasants, also called " Wauersberg ". On old maps it was already listed as " Sonnenberg " after which was named in 1800 resulting district of the present-day city Spremberg.
Geology and Geography
The Sun Mountain is one of the highest elevations of the said 15 acre woodland estate dar. The wooded mountain has a flattened dome, are isolated blocks of granodiorite on. Its top is made Nephelinbasalt and thus shows a geological feature on Neusalza- Spremberger area. A former quarry on the northern higher elevation on the northeast slope clearly shows the incurred during the solidification of lava columns of Nephelinbasalt. They were created millions of years ago in the geological formation of the Tertiary and document that here at that time took place volcanic processes. The deep and filled with water quarry resembles a crater lake.
The sun rises like a mountain spur from the district of Sonneberg in the western valley floor of the city - formerly Spremberger low- village - which is traversed by the railway line Dresden- Zittau. To the west of the forest of the Sonnenberg flows seamlessly into the forests of today no longer exists Czech village Fugau. In pre-Reformation times this grove was referred to as " Spremberger forest ". On the Lehmflächen the Sonnenberg foothills to waterlogged sites were made . Several source arms gather here the so-called " sun mountain water ", also called " Teichflössel " which feeds several fish ponds and today's forest and adventure of the city later in the district Neuspremberg. A dirt road from the western half of local Neusalza- Spremberg performs a railway bridge and subsequent grazing areas for Sonnenberg.