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The Strohm Mountain ( Upper Sorbian Wósmužowa hora ) is a 264 m high mountain in the foothills of the Lusatian mountain country in Saxony. The protected landscape area declared a secluded double peak is two and a half miles south of the city White Mountain in Upper Lusatia.

Geography

The forested mountain flows around the east and north by the widely Löbauer water. Surrounding villages are White Mountain to the north, Maltitz in the east, in the southeast Nostic, Zschorna and Lauske the southwest, Sarka to the west and Kotitz in the northwest. At the eastern foot of the mountain lay on the old trade route from Lobau past by White Mountain.

From the force as a landmark and 21.5 ha of forest -covered Strohm mountain, which rises to 75 m from the countryside, is a more panoramic view of the pond and heathland to the north and the hill country, to Bautzen, to Czornebohkette, the Löbauer mountain, Rotstein, state crown, king Berge and Hohendubrau possible. Furthermore, the Giant Mountains can be seen on clear days in the southeast.

The summit of Mount Strohm served with the Royal Saxon triangulation station than 2nd order, the corresponding measurement point is still to be found at the summit. A high, built just above the measurement point legged Holzbake for better Ferntriangulation no longer exists.

Geology

The mountain Strohm is a connected with a narrow ridge from twin peaks Nephelinbasalt which extends in a northwest-southeast direction to one kilometer. In its narrow side, he reached an area of ​​400 meters.

On Strohm mountain several important scientists took before excavations. They include Bernhard von Cotta, who conducted geological surveys in 1830. Further excavations carried out in 1870 by Rudolf Virchow in 1880 by Friedrich mustard. Hermann Schmidt led by 1899 and 1906 intensive studies.

The basalt of the mountain was used as a building material since the 19th century. There are two small disused quarries, which have been operated at least since 1836 by the estate Sarka At its south summit. A far greater fraction is on the registers of Maltitz and White Mountain at the northern foot of the mountain. This was recorded in 1900 and built in 1906 by the company cancer a gravel pit. Amazing remained the choice of location, as the sun burner is suitable only as an inferior construction aggregate. 1919 received the gravel plant a railway siding from the railway Lobau - Radibor and with the quarry, it was joined by 250 m long railway field. Since 1921, rested the quarry and in 1923 the operation was in the wake of the Great Depression in bankruptcy. The quarry was never resumed and broken down the tracks in the 1920s again.

Fauna and Flora

The rich flora of the residual soil was first investigated at the end of the 18th century by the Moravians and mentioned in the Flora of Niesky (1797 ) and the Flora Kleinwelkiensis (1804 ). In the years 1961 and 1967 could prove 360 plant species Theodor Strohm shooter on the mountain. In addition, the mountain on a variety of bird, butterfly and land snail species.

Colonization

On the mountain there was a Strohm old Slavic fortified settlement, which probably dates from the 11th century, with a built dry stone summit castle and wooden buildings, which were filled with soil. The located at the South Summit Wall was destroyed by the quarrying largely, but first among others studied by Virchow and Richard Andree and described.

According to Andree there was a crescent-shaped, open to the east wall of about 100 meters in size, which dropped to the inside too shallow and a half to two feet high, to the outside but was steep and up to three meters high. The dam had an average width of three meters. The wall consisted of the usual local basalt, which was subsequently slagged and thus solidified.