Stoppelsberg

Basalt columns of stubble on Mount Dungeon of Castle Hauneck

Central hills and inner moat of the castle ruins Sinzigburg

Natural Monument "Long Stones" on Stoppelsbergbdep2

The stubble mountain is a 523.9 m above sea level. NN high mountain in the Hessian part of the Rhön ( a low mountain range in the " triangle " Bayern-Hessen -Thüringen ) in which it is the erosion remnant of a former volcano. His mountain name is derived from the Old High German Stouf ( for rock ).

Nationally known is the stubble was the site of the ruined castle Hauneck (on top of the hill ), as a place of the natural monument "Long Stones" ( on Südwestfuß ) and as such the cultural monument castle ruins Sinzigburg ( on Westsüdwestfuß ).

Geographical location

The for Kuppenrhön (northern and northwestern part of the Rhön) belonging stubble mountain is located in eastern Hesse in Hersfeld -Rotenburg between the crumpled in the northwest and the main part of the Rhön Mountains in the east- south-east, and between the Vogelsberg in the southwest and the Seulingswald in the north - northeast.

The stubble mountain rises in the district area of ​​the municipality Haunetal. Its summit rises above Neukirchen of their districts (north) and the upper and lower stubble ( north or south-east ) and Rhina on (northwest). His feet west flows the Haune, a southern or right-sided Fulda inflow.

In Haunetal and thus west past the stubble of the mountain section Hauneck - Haunetal - Burghaun B 27 and the section Haunetal - Burghaun the railway Bebra - Fulda run - each in north-south direction considered. On the eastern flank of the mountain, the small Ilmesbach which flows past the Ilmesmühle and is an eastern tributary of the Haune springs.

Geology

Geologically, the stubble mountain like the other mountains of Kuppenrhön the residue of a volcano chimney, which originated in the Miocene and rises from a cuesta landscape. On the hilltop occur hexagonal basalt columns at the base of the keep of the castle Hauneck ( s n ) a-days, incurred when cooled basaltic lava.

Flora

The stubble mountain is wooded. Weathered basalt here to fertile clay soil on which grows a rich flora, for example, with subungulates, lily of the valley, Solomon seals, Woodruff and dental Wurzen under deciduous forest.

Castles

Castle ruins Hauneck

On the hilltop of stubble mountain stands the ruins of the castle Hauneck, which was probably built in the 14th century. Are preserved remains of the keep, walls and Palas. On the donjon founded on basalt columns there is a trigonometric point.

From the castle Hauneck one looks, among other things to the aforementioned hessian low mountain ranges and the former inner German border, the present border of Hesse and Thuringia.

Castle ruins Sinzigburg

On Westsüdwestfuß of stubble mountain or in the valley of Haune is located south of the village of Rhina the Sinzigburg, an early medieval castle ruin, which is reported as a floor or a cultural monument. There are still hiding in the forest ditches and banks available.

Long stones

About 850 m southwest of the mountain crest of the hill stubble or about as far west of sub- stubble is the natural monument Lange stones. They are huge, created about 20 million years ago, sandstone blocks. The volcanoes formed, then working not only the conical mountain around, they took also older sediments that were deposited in red sandstone before about 240 million years ago. Due to its mineral structure he broke into rectangular pieces.

For many older castles and churches in the area of white sandstone was used as a building material (for example, for the pen Bad Hersfeld or the above castle ). Today, of the sandstone blocks, four remained.

These stones encouraged at all times to the imagination of the people. A drawing on one of the cuboid is assigned to the Neolithic period, another could be of Germanic origin. Simple the royal arms is to explain which Landgraf Friedrich I of Hesse -Kassel ( the same King of Sweden was ) wanted the stones in 1738 to explain to his property.

One of the many legends told of a farmer who kept the stones for an excellent foundation of his house and wanted to take possession of her. But when he started the chisel, sudden onset of lightning and thunder brought him to the conclusion that the stones were probably the possession of another.

Transport links

The stubble mountain can be reached only on forestry and forest paths, for example, from the south of the mountain from the B 27 branching and upper and lower stubble interconnecting county road "K 47" coming.