<p>The Hochfirst is a wooded mountain between Saig and Titisee-Neustadt in the Black Forest in Germany with a height of.</p><br>
<h2>Location and surrounding area</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is located on the municipal boundary between Lenzkirch and Titisee-Neustadt. On the Hochfirst are a restaurant and an observation tower. From the top there is a view of the nearby Titisee and the Feldberg. In clear weather the Swiss and Austrian Alps may be seen and, in exceptional conditions, even the French Alps as far as the Italian border including Mont Blanc.</p><br>
<h2>Viewing tower</h2><br>
<p>The Hochfirst Tower (Hochfirstturm), built in 1890 as a steel lattice tower, is 25 metres high and stands on a natural stone base. This pedestal was part of the original wooden tower built in 1888 that was the victim of a hurricane in 1890.</p><br>
<p>Today the tower bears antennas for microwave and mobile phone communications. Unusually the Hochfirst Tower is tensioned by guy wires. Since 1989 it has been a listed building. From May 2014 to March 2015 the tower was closed due to stability problems.</p><br>
<h2>Routes to the summit</h2><br>
<p>The Hochfirst may be climbed on the Freiburg-Lake Constance Black Forest Trail (Schwarzwald-Querweg Freiburg–Bodensee) from Titisee or the Central Way (Mittelweg) from Neustadt. The shortest route runs from Saig to the summit. There is also a road to the Hochfirst Tower from Neustadt.</p><br>
<h2>Winter sport</h2><br>
<p>The Hochfirst has its own ski jump, the Hochfirstschanze, which hosts World Cup ski jumping. Along the southeastern slopes of the mountain there is also a cross country skiing loipe, the Hochfirstspur (9.9 km long, height 910–, start and finish near the church in Saig, classic style). A toboggan run runs down the western mountainside of the Hochfirst from Saig to the shores of Lake Titisee.</p><br>
<p>The Hochkopf is a wooded ridge north of the village of Todtmoos in the southern part of the High Black Forest. At its summit is one of the 20 highest points in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.</p><br>
<p>The boundary between Todtmoos and the village of Präg in the borough of Todtnau runs over the mountain. The Hochkopf forms an east-west mountain ridge that forms the southern side of the Präg Cirque. Above the walls of the cirque the mountain ridges are as sharp as aretes in places.</p><br>
<p>The region around the Hochkopf is especially quiet and peaceful. On the summit of the Hochkopf a small observation tower, the Hochkopf Tower (Hochkopfturm) was built in 1925. Further down the mountain on the West Way (eastern route) stands the Hochkopfhaus, formerly a hiking hut owned by the Black Forest Club, but today a private hotel.</p><br>
<p>During weather inversions here there are clear views of the Alps from the Zugspitze to Mont Blanc. The Hochkopf is thus frequented as an alternative to the often overrun peaks of Feldberg and Belchen.</p><br>
<p>The Hohenbol is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.</p><br>
<p>Hohenbol (Baden-Württemberg)</p><br>
<p>Type Witnesses Mountain of volcanic origin</p><br>
<p>The Hohenbol is a high mountain 2 kilometers from the town of Owen in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg.</p><br>
<p>The Hohenbol is a foothill of the Teckberg and upstrimes this northwest.</p><br>
<p>The Teckberg and the summit of Hohenbol (above the orchard slope) are a nature reserve protected area.</p><br>
<p>The Hohenbol is a witness mountain of volcanic origin. He is one of the 355 volcanoes that are known from the "Urach volcanic area".</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>It is originated in the Miocene, when one of the volcanic vents of the Swabian volcano forced its way through the surrounding rock. Through erosion of Hohenbol was (especially in the west and north) exposed the softer surrounding material.</p><br>
<h2>Other</h2><br>
<p>With a distinctive group of black pines on its summit, the Hohenbol is clearly visible.</p><br>
<p>The area of the Hohenbol belongs to the nature reserve Teck.</p><br>
<p>The Hohenhewen, also called the Hohenhöwen or, colloquially, Höwen, is the local mountain of the town of Engen in the Hegau region of southern Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Summit area</h2><br>
<p>The summit of the Hohenhewen lies at, womit rising above the surrounding area by around 300 metres. On its summit plateau are the ruins of Hohenhewen Castle and a viewing platform built on the remains of the oldbergfried, from where the other mountains and hills of the Hegau, Lake Constance and, to the north, the Swabian Jura, can be seen. In good visibility even the Alps and the Black Forest may be made out.</p><br>
<h2>Ascent</h2><br>
<p>The Hohenhewen may be ascended from Anselfingen to the north or Welschingen to the south. Whilst the northern ascent is fairly wide and comfortable (T1), the climb from Welschingen is much steeper and narrower and requires a certain degree of sure-footedness (T2). Good footwear is recommended.</p><br>
<h2>Geology and nature conservation</h2><br>
<p>Like almost all Hegau mountains, the Hohenhewen has a volcanic origin. Its bedrock consists of basalt. A 39-hectare area on the Hohenhewen has been designated a nature reserve since 1982 and its steep eastern mountainside is of particular botanical interest.</p><br>
<h2>Meaning of the name</h2><br>
<p>The name Hohenhewen is probably of Celtic origin: the Celtic word for a domed mountainto is ceven. It is possible that the mountain, in turn, gave its name to the Hegau region (Hewengew).</p><br>
<p>The Hörnleberg is a mountain, in the Central Black Forest in southern Germany. Its summit pyramid rises around 600 metres above the apex formed by the valleys of the Elz and the Wild Gutach. Currently  it has a view of the Elz valley and the Upper Rhine Plain.</p><br>
<p>At the summit is the pilgrimage chapel of Our Dear Lady (Unsere Liebe Frau), which was presumably built in the 8th or 9th century. The first record of the capella uf dem Hörnlin dates to the year 1469, in a prebendary occupancy book of the Diocese of Konstanz. According to legend, a blind man from the Alsace swore that if God gave him back his sight, he would build a chapel in honour of Mary on the first mountain that he saw.</p><br>
<p>Two Ways of the Cross, from Bleibach and from Oberwinden, lead up to the chapel.</p><br>
<p>The Kandel is a mountain, 1,241.4 metres high, in the Black Forest in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Kandel is located 25 km northeast of Freiburg in the Breisgau and has a height of 1,241 m (4,072 ft).</p><br>
<p>The Kandel belongs to the Central Black Forest gneiss region. The overall shape of the massif was tectonically formed: the Kandel block rises table-like in a northwesterly direction from the plateau around Sankt Peter. It is surrounded by faults, some of which form clear steps in the terrain; for example the Rhine Plain lies more than 1,000 metres below the Kandel and the summits on the other side of the Elz valley are 500-600 metres lower. The ongoing uplifting of the Kandel block from the Rhine Plain (1-2 mm/year) sometimes manifests itself in earth tremors.</p><br>
<p>The Kandel massif is cut by deep radial valleys into mountain ridges, some rounded and some rocky. The steep mountainsides reach heights of 600 metres in the southwest (Glotter valley), 650 metres in the northwest (Elz valley) and a good 700 metres in the northeast (valley of the Wild Gutach). Only in the southeast does the mountain descend more gradually towards Sankt Peter by about 500 metres and to the ledge over the Zweribach waterfalls by a good 200 metres. The extensive grasslands of the southern slopes often exhibit clear thermals and are influenced by heavy thunderstorm weather patterns of the Breisgau that often arise here.</p><br>
<p>The elements of the mountain block that go back to the ice age glaciations are less obvious here that in other Black Forest mountains of comparable height.</p><br>
<h3>Kandel Rock</h3><br>
<p>Kandel Rock (Kandelfelsen) is located at a height of about 1,100 m (3,609 ft) on the western slope. Although in 1981, some two thousand cubic metres of rock collapsed, it is still attractive to climbers. Its upper part is called the Devils Pulpit, because legend has it that this is the place where witches come together to dance with the devil on Walpurgis Night (Walpurgisnacht), which is the night of 30 April/1 May. The rockfall on the Devils Pulpit occurred on Walpurgis Night in 1981.</p><br>
<p>The Egenhäuser Kapf rises in the northern Black Forest, roughly halfway between Freudenstadt and Calw and, at, it is the highest point along the Bömbach valley. As the crow flies it is around 8 kilometres west of Nagold and about 3 kilometres southeast of Altensteig, between the municipalities of Egenhausen and Walddorf.</p><br>
<p>It is home to large areas of the nature reserve and protected landscape known as the Egenhäuser Kapf and Bömbach Valley (Egenhäuser Kapf mit Bömbachtal). As early as 1969 the Egenhäuser Kapf was declared as a protected area, the current ordinance was published by the Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe on 20 December 1991. The nature reserve, index no. 2,150, has an area of 150.3 hectares, the protected area, no. 2.35.047, covers 294.8 hectares. The conservation aim is the preservation, development and maintenances of the typical natural region countryside of the Bösingen Wellenkalk Plateau, (Bösinger Wellenkalkplatte), the juniper heaths and mesoxerophytic grassland as a habitat for typical, specialised animal and plant species as well as its numerous landscape elements such as open pine woods, hedges, meadows with scattered fruit trees, grazing meadows, stone quarries and stream valleys as a habitat for endangered and threatened mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, butterflies, beetles and hymenoptera.</p><br>
<p>One well known species is the Carline Thistle which is rare at these latitudes and has been adopted for the coat of arms of Egenhausen.</p><br>
<p>On its western slopes the Kapf transitions into bunter sandstone; otherwise it consists mainly of grey-blue to green-brown Muschelkalk soils which form the basis for juniper heaths, rough pasture, clearance cairns and small quarries. Even in 1860, Rauhbastard sheep were grazed on the gentian grasslands of the parish of Egenhausen.</p><br>
<p>The Egenhäuser Kapf is home to the Kapf Evangelical Sport and Recreation Centre. This belongs to the Evangelical Youthwork in Württemberg organisation. Since 1950 the terrain was used as a tented camp; in the early 1960s, the recreation centre was built.</p><br>
<p>The Kniebis is a 960-metre-high mountain ridge in the Black Forest and the name of a village to the south which is a dispersed settlement. The Kniebis mountain rises in the state of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Transport</h2><br>
<p>The Kniebis lies on the Black Forest High Road that, as the B 28 federal highway approaches from Freudenstadt and continues from the mountain pass of Alexanderschanze as the B 500 to Baden-Baden. The B 28 itself continues to Kehl and Strasbourg. The Landesstraße 96 runs south in the direction of Hausach. The Kniebis is on the bus routes from Freudenstadt.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>In winter there are numerous cross country skiing loipes, including one with snow cannon and floodlights, as well as several ski lifts in the village and the surrounding area (Vogelskopf, Zuflucht and Kniebis lifts); in addition there is a toboggan run and various winter footpaths. In summer the Kniebis is a major mountain bike, Nordic walking and hiking area; in addition there is a fully renovated woodland lido.</p><br>
<p>One nearby destination is the Lothar Path on the Black Forest High Road (B 500) in the direction of the Schliffkopf. On the western exit of the village is the Alexanderschanze, further north are the Röschenschanze and the Schwedenschanze.</p><br>
<h2>Economy</h2><br>
<p>The village survives mainly on tourism. Winter sport facilities include several ski lifts (each with a height difference of about 100 metres), many kilometres of cut loipes and a toboggan run. The so-called night trail in the Kniebis Ski Stadium attracts a fee. a roughly 2-kilometre-long circular route in the immediate vicinity is floodlight when the weather conditions require and it can be entirely covered with artificial snow.</p><br>
<h2>Climate</h2><br>
<h2>Education</h2><br>
<p>Kniebis has a kindergarten and a primary school. The primary school has an unusual architectural feature: it is built directly onto the evangelical church.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In Early Modern times the Kniebis was a serious obstacle on the long distance trade route from Strasbourg to Ulm (the so-called Oppenauer Steige) as a result of the climb from Oppenau up to the Kniebis pass. This trading route (also called the Swabian Way or Schwabenweg) was controlled in Hohenstaufen times by the House of Zähringen. Later, it formed an important link between Württemberg and the Württemberg estates in present-day France. In times of war, for example during the Thirty Years&#39; War it was also used for troop movements.</p><br>
<p>After the end of Hohenstaufen rule aroud 1250 the boundary between the lands of the Principality of Fürstenberg in the Kinzig valley and Central Black Forest (which went to the Grand Duchy of Baden in 1806) m Kniebis ) and the Duchy, later Kingdom, of Württemberg.</p><br>
<p>In 1267 in Kniebis village (Württemberg Kniebis) Kniebis Abbey was founded. It was dissolved in 1534 in the Reformation.</p><br>
<p>The pass over the Kniebis was already very important early on as a trade route between the Rhine valley and Württemberg. In the Middle Ages it also became strategically important from a military perspective. As a result several fortifications were built in the area of the Kniebis and to the north on the Black Forest High Road.</p><br>
<p>In 1632, a fortification called the Kleine Schanze or Alte Schanze was built on the summit of the mountain at the exit to the village between boundary stones 52 and 53 on the road leading to the pass in order to control it. There are no visible remains left, but an information board by the road indicates where it was.</p><br>
<p>About 1 km northwest of it on the Black Forest High Road (B 500) is another fortification, the Alexanderschanze. On a map by Stäbenhaber from the year 1674 it is already described as "repaired", so it must be older than that date.</p><br>
<p>A further 3 kilometres further along the Black Forest High Road near the turn off to Oppenau is the Schwedenschanze ("Swedish Schanze) which was first mentioned in 1593.</p><br>
<p>In the immediate vicinity of the Schwedenschanze is the Röschenschanze, built in 1794 by Major Rösch and named after him.</p><br>
<p>The Kleine Schanz(1), the Alexanderschanze(2) and the Schwedenschanze(3) are all marked on the section of the map by Stäbenhaber.</p><br>
<p>From 1939 (start of construction) to 1945 (demolition by the German Wehrmacht) there was one of Hitler&#39;s Führer Headquarters here, the Tannenberg, which he used briefly in 1940. From July to the end of 1941 Gestapo prisoners from the forced labour camp (AEL) of Kniebis-Ruhestein built a section of the Black Forest High Road on the Kniebis. Both sites belong to the municipality of Baiersbronn, which extends from the new boundaries of the borough of Freudenstadt only on a part of the areas in the south, on which there are residential house and the Alexanderschanze.</p><br>
<p>From earliest days the Kniebis consisted of 3 parts, the Baiersbronn part, the Freudenstadt part (together forming the Württemberg Kniebis) and the Bad Rippoldsau part that belonged to Baden. The boundary is still marked today by boundary stones along the "Border Way" (Grenzweg). As a result of its division between two states an "inner Alemannic" dialect has developed between the Swabian (North Alemannic) speaking area and the Upper Rhenish, Lower Alemannic area.</p><br>
<p>In 1975 all three districts were incorporated into Freudenstadt.</p><br>
<p>Kornberg  is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.</p><br>
<h2>Buildings on the Kornberg</h2><br>
<p>The top of the mountain is located within the boundaries of the municipality Gruibingen in Göppingen district. Southeast of the summit is the 1922 finished Kornberg Cottage. Not far north from Kornberg is located the to district Bad Boll related castle site Landsöhr Castle, commonly known as Berta castle. At Kornberg leads the Swabian Alb North Rim pathway (HW 1) past.</p><br>
<h2>Nature reserve Kornberg</h2><br>
<p>With regulation of the Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart of 15 July 2004, Kornberg and its southern foothills Barn were recorded as the nature reserve Kornberg. The reserve covers an area of 189.8 ha. Protective purpose is the preservation and promotion of ecologically diverse, small-scale and networked landscape with juniper heath, succession areas, hedges, extensively farmed species-rich meadows, some fields and economic fields and natural deciduous forests with their typical, animal and plant species. The preservation of a cultural landscape as a witness partly historical use patterns, in particular the conservation of juniper heathland and extensively farmed meadows.</p><br>
<p>Limburg  is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.</p><br>
<p>Striking is the breakdown of vegetation: the summit is covered with lean lawn and some solitary Tilia. Below this is a zone of scrub forest on the southern slope with vineyards, and on the lower slopes of extensive orchards.</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>The Limburg is a mountain of volcanic origin, more precisely a formerly active volcanic vent of the Swabian Jura. However, it does not correspond, despite its striking cone shape the Ashes volcanoes on the type of Etna or Vesuvius. Before about 17 million years ago there came here to massive gas and dust explosions when percolating water met in the columns of the Jura on a magma bubble that had formed in the depths. The up broken rocks fell back into the crater and solidified over time to basaltic. Here no molten lava came to the surface. She remained rather stuck in the volcanic vent and froze there to Basalt. In the following year, millions the Jurassic layers were eroded more and more. The Basalttuffpfropf was more resistant than the surrounding limestone and remained as the northern slope of the Swabian Alb mountain upstream cone stand and testified that this formerly extended further to the north.</p><br>
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<p>The Merkur or Großer Staufenberg is a mountain, in the Northern Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the Hausberg of Baden-Baden and located between the spa town and the town of Gernsbach.</p><br>
<h2>Name</h2><br>
<p>The mountain is named after the Ancient Roman god of trade and commerce, Mercury, to whom a Roman votive stone on the summit is dedicated. The Merkurstein has been recorded since the 16th century. Today, there is a cast of the original votive stone on the summit plateau; its prototype is in the Baden-Baden Municipal Museum collection. The original name of the free-standing conical mountain was the Großer Staufenberg, a reference to the shape of a turned drinking mug known as a Stauf.</p><br>
<h2>Funicular</h2><br>
<p>The summit of the Merkur is only accessible on foot, by bicycle or on the Merkur Funicular Railway (the Merkurbergbahn) from Baden-Baden. The funicular was built in 1913, but closed in 1967 for technical reasons. It re-opened in 1979. It is 1,200 metres long, one of the longest railways of its type in Germany, and climbs gradients of up to 54%. There are good views of Baden-Baden during the ascent.</p><br>
<h2>Attractions</h2><br>
<p>At the top station is a restaurant. Other attractions at the summit include a sunbathing lawn, a barbecue area and a play park with giant slide. Aimed at spa guests, but usable by anyone, are the so-called "terrain spa walks" (Terrainkurwege) of different lengths and gradients. One of these paths leads to the wildlife park at the foot of the mountain where there are red deer, fallow deer and mounflon. About half-way up the Merkur on the Baden-Baden side is the premium footpath, the Panorama Way (Panoramaweg). The summit of the Merkur is a waystop on two other premium footpaths: the Gernsbacher Runde and Murgleiter.</p><br>
<h2>Observation tower</h2><br>
<p>An observation and radio tower stands on the highest point of the Merkur at 48&deg;45&prime;52&Prime;N latitude, 8&deg;16&prime;50&Prime;E longitude. It was built in 1837 and was raised in height when the funicular was built. Since the 1950s it has also acted as a radio broadcast transmitter. A more recent reinforced concrete annex supports an antenna mast made of steel, reaching a total height of 63 metres.</p><br>
<h2>Panorama</h2><br>
<p>The mountain has an all-round view, not just over the bowl of Baden-Baden, the highest peaks of the Northern Black Forest and the Murg valley with the towns of Gaggenau and Gernsbach, but also of the Upper Rhine Plain, the Vosges, the Haardt and the Odenwald. In the field of view are the ruins of Hohenbaden Castle, the Battert rocks, the ruins of Alt Eberstein, the Fremersberg, the Yburg, the Badener Höhe and the Hornisgrinde as well as the cities of Karlsruhe and Strasbourg.</p><br>
<p>The Moos is a mountain range in the Central Black Forest in southern Germany. Its highest points are the Siedigkopf and the Mooskopf, actually the Geisschleifkopf. The Moos is the local mountain or Hausberg of Gengenbach and Oppenau.</p><br>
<p>The Moos separates the valleys of the Rench and the Kinzig in an east-west direction. At the same time the Nordrach valley and theformerly free imperial valley of the Harmersbach rise on it and flow in a north-south direction.</p><br>
<p>Due to its formerly dense and dark afforestation, the Moos is the scene of numerous legends and legendary figures. A leading character that appears time and again is the Moospfaff, an old monk from All Saints&#39; Abbey, who on his way to an extreme unction lost the host and now searches around leads people astray whilst he tries to find the host.</p><br>
<p>The fictional character Simplicius Simplicissimus, who is commemorated on a monument, from the novel Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, lived for several years on the Moos during the Thirty Years&#39; War.</p><br>
<p>There is an observation tower, the Moos Tower (Moosturm), on the Mooskopf which was erected in 1890 and is maintained by the Black Forest Club.</p><br>
<p>On the Geißschleif Saddle between the Mooskopf and the Siedigkopf is the junction of three trails: the Kandelhöhen Way, Gengenbach–Alpirsbach Black Forest Trail and the Rench Valley Trail. On the Kornebene (640 m above NN) the Friends of Nature&#39;s Gengenbach branch run a managed hut (Kornebene Friends of Nature House) with overnight accommodation. In the municipal territory of Nordrach at a height of 589 m is Gasthaus Moosbach, the highest inn in the county of Ortenau and the whole of the Moos hills.</p><br>
<p>On 26 Dec 1999, Hurricane Lothar caused serious damage on the Mooskopf and Siedigkopf. Hitherto the summits were densely covered with high spruce and fir trees which largely blocked the view from the observation tower. After the storm had totally destroyed the trees, instead of the old monoculture, a considerably more varied mixed forest emerted. On the Siedigkopf is a monument that commemorates the hurricane.</p><br>
<p>Mooskopf turm2.jpgThe Moos Tower (Moosturm), Oct 2007</p><br>
<p>Grimmelshausen-Denkmal.jpgGrimmelshausen monument</p><br>
<p>Lothardenkmal Siedigkopf.JPGHurrican Lothar monument</p><br>
<p>At the Obereck is the third highest mountain of the Central Black Forest after the Kandel and the Weißtannenhöhe. The three mountains also lie within the area designated as the High Black Forest.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Obereck lies in the east of the municipality of Simonswald above the village of Hintergriesbach. Its rounded summit or kuppe lies on a ridge, that is especially sharp in the area of the Schultiskopf, and which runs away from the main chain between the Rohrhardsberg and Brend descending westwards into the valley of the Wild Gutach (Simonswälder Tal) some 700 metres lower down. It is bounded by the valleys of the tributary streams, the Griesbach to the south and the Haslachsimonswälder Bach to the north (Kostgfäll Gorge).</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Like most of the other mountains of the Central Black Forest, the Obereck is made from gneisses. The original bunter sandstone platform was eroded away during the course of the ice ages. Traces of ice age glaciation, especially cirque-like landforms and moraines, are clearly visible on the northern slopes.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation</h2><br>
<p>The original mixed forest stands were largely replaced by spruce as a result of intensive forestry.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Obereck is accessible on several trails, especially through the rocky, demanding climb up the arete, but is not easily linked with the nearby Kostgfäll Gorge. It is not very well known. Its heavy forestation means that the summit does not have much of a view nor are their good facilities for skiers (few pistes and no lifts). There is accommodation in the surrounding villages within Simonswald.</p><br>
<p>The Rohrhardsberg is a mountain in the Central Black Forest in southern Germany. At 1,152.1 metres  above sea level, it is the northernmost summit of the elongated, north-south oriented Farnberg Plateau that has several high points over 1,150 metres. The mountain is situated near Elzach in the state of Baden-Württemberg.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The Farnberg Plateau, which includes the Rohrhardsberg lies in the triangle between the valleys of the Elz, Oberprechtal and Simonswäldertal. Its highest summits are the Griesbacher Eck, which rises south of the Rohrhardsberg, and, further to the southwest, the Obereck.</p><br>
<p>The boundary between the counties of Emmendingen, in the west, and Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis, in the east, runs over the summit crest. Its highest point is the east top of theGriesbacher Eck at.</p><br>
<h2>Nature reserve</h2><br>
<p>In the comparatively less incised region to the west which is characterised by large differences in height there are several nature reserves: the Rohrhardsberg-Upper Elz reserves and the two neighbouring reserves to the west, Yacher Zinken and Kostgefäll. The entire region is designated as a Natura 2000 area. On the ridge of the plateau between the Schwedenschanze on the Rohrhardsberg and the Brend are habitats for the capercaillie and hazel grouse and other, in some cases very rare, animal and plant species. For this reason it was agreed that in the Rohrhardsberg model project, only a narrow axis between the Brend and the Schwedenschanze would be used for sporting and tourist purposes and large areas would be left largely undisturbed. Several other areas would continue to be extensively grazed, because a purely mechanistic approach of leaving the few remaining rough pastures to grow wild would make no sense either for economic or for ecological reasons. This project is a successful cooperation between conservation agencies, the forestry commission, municipalities and various user groups.</p><br>
<p>In 2007, in the Rohrhardsberg area one of the first Natura 2000 management plans by the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg was completed. Further funding from Natura 2000 has been spent in the area since 2006 from the EU LIFE programme to ensure the Natura 2000 network. In cooperation with local farmers, inter alia, a further opportunity for naturalising or reforesting grazing land has been carried out.</p><br>
<h2>Leisure</h2><br>
<p>In winter the Farnberg ridge between the Rohrhardsberg and Brend is a popular ski area; in summer the many trails managed by the Black Forest Club, such as the Zweitälersteig, enable extensive walking tours through the region.</p><br>
<h2>Infrastructure</h2><br>
<p>On the domed summit of the Rohrhardsberg is a roughly 30-metre-high transmission tower belonging to Deutsche Telekom and, since 2004, a wind turbine.</p><br>
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<p>Römerstein is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It lies on a plateau, whose highest point is 872 m above sea level.</p><br>
<p>It is named after the municipality of Römerstein in the district of Reutlingen, in which territory it lies. Although the Romans in Donnstetten settled immediately east of the mountain between AD 85-260, the name is not derived from them but from the name of the family Rem, which was established in the 14th Century in the region. The forested crest of the hill rises an average of only about 70 metres above its immediate surroundings, but due to its location (near the northwest Albtrauf, above the deep Lenninger Lautertal and by the falling south plateau) it offers excellent visibility.</p><br>
<h2>Lookout tower</h2><br>
<p>At the highest point of the mountain is the 28 m tower. This was built in 1912 by the Swabian Albverein (one of the oldest hiking clubs in Germany). The tower was designed as a timber boarded construction on a stone basement. From its viewing platform above the treetops to the north overlooks the Lauter and the Alp foothills to the Kaiser mountains. In the Northeast, the highest visible summit is Filstal; in the other directions the Swabian Alps can be seen.</p><br>
<p>The tower is open during the warm seasons, on weekends and holidays, at the foot of which is a barbecue area and playground equipment for children.</p><br>
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<p>Roßkopf  is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany.</p><br>
<p>The 737 m (2418 ft) high Rosskopf is a mountain in the Black Forest in the northeast of Freiburg and the southeast of Gundelfingen. It is on the edge of the territory of the city between the Glotter valley and the Dreisam valley. On the Roßkopf the borders of Gundelfingen, Freiburg and the formerly independent municipality Ebnet (today Freiburg-Ebnet) meet. Several border stones in the forest give evidence of the development of the municipal boundaries.</p><br>
<h2>Trails</h2><br>
<p>The section of the Kandel trail from Sankt Peter, Baden-Württemberg to Freiburg crosses the mountain. The Rosskopf is a mountain for mountain bikers (part of the mountain bike trail ) and easy to reach from Freiburg and the surrounding villages. Only some of the trails have been released for cyclists and parts of the forest on the Roßkopf are under special protection as protected forest. Below the tower on the Roßkopf is the starting point for an approximately two miles long downhill trail that starts on the Rosskopf and leads to the youth hostel of Freiburg.</p><br>
<h2>Martinsfelsen</h2><br>
<p>To the north of the summit of the Roßkopf lies the Martinsfelsen, a rock at an altitude of 686 m (2250 ft), which offers a view of the Northern Breisgau.</p><br>
<h2>Roßkopfturm</h2><br>
<p>At its summit and next to a small hut is the Roßkopf tower (Roßkopfturm or Friedrichsturm), a 115 ft high observation tower of steel frame structure which was built in 1889 and offers a panoramic view of Freiburg, the Kaiserstuhl mountain range and the surrounding mountains.</p><br>
<h2>Wind turbines</h2><br>
<p>In 2003, four wind turbines were installed on the Rosskopf by the enterprise Regiowind GmbH, each with a capacity of 1.8 MW, and new access roads were created. The turbines of the type Enercon E66/18.70 that were taken into operation in November 2003 have a hub height of 98 m (322 ft) and a rotor diameter of 70 m (230 ft), thus a total height of 133 m (443 ft). Together with the two other wind turbines on the Holzschlägermatte on the Schauinsland they produced over 12 million kilowatt hours of energy in 2010 which corresponds to the requirement of 5400 households.</p><br>
<h2>Photos</h2><br>
<p>The Schliffkopf is a mountain in the Northern Black Forest between Baiersbronn, Ottenhöfen and Oppenau. It is. The Schliffkopf lies on the Black Forest High Road in the National Park and is the site of an epoymous four star "wellness" hotel. Various long distance paths, including the West Way, run over the Schliffkopf.</p><br>
<p>At the end of June 2003 a nature trail, the Lothar Path (Lotharpfad), was opened at the Schliffkopf on the topic of storm damage. Along an 800-metre-long educational and experience trail, visitors can see how this ten-hectare-area, heavily damaged by Hurricane Lothar in 1999, has gradually recovered and been recolonized. The Lothar Path runs along footbridges, ladders and steps and shows how the forces of nature act, how nature deals with destruction in such an area and what naturally regrows.</p><br>
<p>The Schliffkopf is a source region for the Acher and the Murg.</p><br>
<h2>Nature reserves</h2><br>
<p>A 520.1-hectare-part of the raised bog-like summit region has been designated as a nature reserve since 1938. In 1986, on the territory of the district of Freudenstadt, a further 876.2 ha was granted reserve status. This is intended to protect the typical landscape of the Black Forest grinden with their extensive woods, stands of mountain pine and the tarn of Buhlbachsee. Parts of the forest are also designated as Schonwald.</p><br>
<p>The Schliffkopf is also part of the 2,897 hectare Special Area of Conservation known as the Wilder See-Hornisgrinde. In addition, the 36,045 hectare bird reserve of Nordschwarzwald includes the Schliffkopf and thus covers the SAC and nature reserves too.</p><br>
<p>The Schönberg  is located on the southern outskirts of Freiburg im Breisgau and at 644.9 meters above sea level the Hausberg  of the municipality of Ebringen.</p><br>
<h2>Municipality</h2><br>
<p>The mountain belongs to Ebringen but the slopes also form part of the districts of Schallstadt, Merzhausen, Au, Wittnau, Sölden, and Sankt Georgen (a suburb of Freiburg).</p><br>
<h2>Geology</h2><br>
<p>Together with the Black Forest and the Rhine plain,the Schönberg forms the third prominent area of land around Freiburg, the foothills of the Black Forest. To the east, the Schönberg is separated from the Black Forest by a valley called the Hexental, to the south by the Staufen Basin, to the north the Bay of Freiburg (Freiburger Bucht) and to the west lies the Rhine Plain. The area thus enclosed is 8 km long and 4 km wide.</p><br>
<p>Together with the Hohfirst (493.6 meters) in the south and the Ölberg (416.4 meters), which is the southern most spur, the mountain forms the Schönbergmassiv (Schönberg massif), a promontory of the Black Forest, which itself is part of the Upper Rhine Plain. Due to geological disturbance and rift valleys the surface provides evidence from all periods of the Mesozoic era, as well as signs of volcanic activity of the tertiary era.</p><br>
<p>This includes a small tuff vent on the southern slope close to the chapel of Berghausen and a bigger vent on the northern slope close to the restaurant Schönberger Hof. Along the south east slope, to the west of the former clay pit is a 100 m long basalt Lode.</p><br>
<p>The lower areas on the western slope are covered by thick layers of loess. The eastern slope of the Schönberg falls steeply towards a valley called the Hexental. At the foot of the eastern slope, the Kapuzinerbuck (a mountain named after the Friars Minor Capuchin) is evidence of major landslides.</p><br>
<h2>Mining</h2><br>
<p>Trying to achieve autarky, the Third Reich intensified iron ore mining in 1935 which is why the deeper layers of the mountain are well explored today. In close proximity to the town center of Ebringen, two derricks had been erected, which were operating all day. Water from the local creek served as drilling fluid.</p><br>
<p>Most of the mining took place in two different areas:The northern pit, located in Sankt Georgen (a district of Freiburg) and a southern pit in the Ebringen district, from which smaller amount of ore was extracted. Ore from the southern pit was transported via cableway to the loading station in Sankt Georgen. In addition, a smaller mining field existed close to Bollschweiler (Kuckucksbad). Here, mining was shut down in 1939 however, because the iron ore contained only 20-30 % of iron and was therefore not worth mining. In 1942 mining was already ceased, because, in addition to the low iron content, the course of war led to an increased availability of iron ore from France (Lorraine) and Sweden.The main reason for the cessation, however, might have been caused by the intensified use of the Paschke-Peetz-Method (a method used in steel production) for the metallurgy of acid iron ore. This method made the supply of calcareous ore from the Schönberg unnecessary.</p><br>
<h2>Etymology</h2><br>
<p>Between 1700 and 1900 the standard German name of the mountain - "Schönberg" - progressively replaced the Allemann or Middle High German name "Schirnberg" or "Schimberg" for official purposes. Schönberg is an etymological wrong transcription of the dialect variant.</p><br>
<p>The word "schin" either derives from the Middle High German word "schin="shine, visible from a distance" or from the Middle High German scina/schine relating to the flattened shape. It has nothing to do with the word "schön"="pretty".</p><br>
<h2>Settlement</h2><br>
<p>It can be assumed that people started visiting the Schönberg 160,000 years ago. Two sites at Bollschweil and Ehrenstetten are 100,000 years old. Bones of mammoths, wild cattle and woolly rhinoceros were found here. Evidence of hand axes and spearheads indicates that permanent settlement of the Schönberg began at that time.</p><br>
<p>The main neolithic settlement was located on top of the mountain, where there is now a radio tower of the SWR, a regional public broadcasting cooperation from the southwest of Germany. This 58 meter high steel lattice mast, built in 2012, was erected next to an old transmission tower, that has now been demolished. Other prominent sights are the upper Schönberger Hof, a farm on the southern slope of the mountain, and the lower Schönberger Hof, a resaturant with a view of the city of Freiburg. The old castle ruin of Schneeburg is located on a western subsummit of the Schönberg.</p><br>
<p>The Jesuit castle at Merzhausen (northern district of Freiburg) is also worth visiting.</p><br>
<h2>Historical background</h2><br>
<p>On the third of August 1644 the western slope of the Schönberg was the site of the first day of the Battle of Freiburg, that took place during the Thirty Years War. Fighting between Bavarian and French troops continued on the 5 and 9 August on the Lorettoberg, directly opposite the eastern slope of the Schönberg. Frances main goal was to regain control over the city of Freiburg, which the allied troops of the Weimar Republic had lost on 27 July to Bavarian troops after several weeks of siege. The French managed to conquer the district of Bohl on the western slopes of the Schönberg, although with heavy losses. The Bavarian troops retreated over the Schönberg into fortified positions on the Lorettoberg and were thus able to successfully hold the mountain and the city of Freiburg against the French enemy.</p><br>
<p>France sustained heavy losses during the Battle of Freiburg: 1100 soldiers lost their lives conquering the district of Bohl, whereas Bavaria only lost 300 men. During the battle the suburbs of Freiburg were destroyed and the villages around the Schönberg were sacked and thereby severely damaged.</p><br>
<p>A memorial cross on the Schönberg above Leutenberg and Ebringen commemorates the battle of Freiburg on 3 August 1644. The cross replaced the ossuary, where the bones of the fallen soldiers were buried thirty years after the battle. The mass grave became a place of pilgrimage, much to the displeasure of the church. Bones were often stolen as they were venerated as relics. The church could not prevent further pilgrimages so Ildefons of Arx ordered the remaining bones to be taken away in 1791, which meant the end of the pilgrimages over the next few decades.</p><br>
<h2>Flora</h2><br>
<h3>Forest</h3><br>
<p>The higher mountain slopes of the Schönberg are not suitable for farming, but they are used either for silviculture or grazing. 9.4 km² of the Schönberg massif (which is in total 24 km²) and 3.4 km² of the actual mountain are covered with forest. The dominant tree of this mixed deciduous forest is the copper beach, but due to the many different types of soil and the local climate there are many different forest communities, as well as monocultures.</p><br>
<p>Mainly beeches and silver firs grow in the deep and damp soil and form a dense canopy. For this reason, low shrubbery is almost entirely absent and only shade tolerant plants like enchanters-nightshade, arum and woodruff grow there. The major part of the forest stands on dry and nutrient-poor soil. Durmast oak, field maple and whitebeam, as well as the non-local conifer scots pine are to be found here. In addition, dogs mercury, as well as carex and various orchids, for example bird&#39;s-nest orchid and red and white helleborine grow here. forests grow in some places. communities dominate the headwater regions.</p><br>
<p>It can be assumed that in earlier centuries, when the forests were used as grazing lands, the woodland edge was less prominent than it is today. Evidence of this is the striking frequency of the holly tree, that was not cleared and thus spread rapidly. Since the mid-twentieth century the forest has been on the advance and it requires regular care to prevent a forestation of the edge of the meadows. A diploma thesis found that in the early 18th century, the local people cultivated the soil of the upper and lower plateaus, although these plateaus were forest regions at that time.</p><br>
<h3>Viticulture</h3><br>
<p>Vineyards are grown on the western and southern slopes and sporadically even on the southeast slopes. In these altitudes a number of short-living plant species, so-called annual plants, dominate. They are able to produce three to four generations per year and thus survive even frequent weed control as an entire species. Amongst the most well known species are the cickweed, dead-nettles and birdeye speedway. Furthermore, bulb plants, also called geophytes, grow between the vines. Firmly rooted in the ground they survive the intese cultivation of the vineyard. They are largely of Mediterranean origin. Special mention should be made of the very common grape hyacinth and wild garlic, from which this community of herbs derives its name. Less frequent are the hairy star of Bethlehem and the local wild tulip. Since the end of the seventies the flora has been pushed back by lawn thatch, which is frequently used for mulching.</p><br>
<h2>Valleys</h2><br>
<p>Jennetal</p><br>
<p>The Schwarze Grat between Eschachthal in the Bavarian county of Oberallgäu and Bolsternang in the Baden-Württemberg county of Ravensburg is and thus the highest mountain in Ravensburg, in the province of Tübingen  and the Adelegg range, although within the Adelegg region it is topped by the Ursersberg. An observation tower, the Schwarzer Grat Tower stands at the summit.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<h3>Location</h3><br>
<p>The Schwarzer Grat stands in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the small mountain range of Adelegg, which is roughly north of the Allgäu Alps and extends far into the northern Alpine Foreland. The boundary with Bavaria and the county of Oberallgäu runs just under 300 metres southeast of the top. The summit rises 1.8 km south-southwest of Eschachthal, a village in the Bavarian municipality of Weitnau, and 2.3 km (as the crow flies) north-northeast of Bolsternang, a village in the Württemberg municipality of Isny im Allgäu.</p><br>
<p>Around 950 metres south-southeast of the top of the Schwarzer Grat on the state border rises the peak of the Raggenhorn; beyond that is the Weitnau village of Wengen (Bavaria). Southeast and below the Schwarzer Grat, on the slopes of the Raggenhorns, lies the Wenger Eggalm (also Wengener Egg Alpe or Alpe Wenger Egg), a mountain pasture.</p><br>
<p>To the east the slopes of the Schwarzer Grat descend to the little stream of Rotenbach, a southwestern tributary of the Eschach, which flows to the north of the mountain. On the southwestern flank is the source of the Eisenbacher Tobel which flows roughly north and empties into the Eisenbach before also joining the Eschach. On the southern flank of the mountain rises the little Scheidach, a northeastern tributary of the Wengener Argen in the catchment area of the Untere Argen.</p><br>
<p>At a height of the Seebuck is the second highest mountain the Black Forest after the Feldberg It is located in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The mountain rises in the Southern Black Forest immediately southeast of the Feldberg, of which it is sometimes considered a part because both mountains are part of the same ridge, only separated by a shallow depression called the Grüble or Feldberg Saddle (Feldbergsattel).</p><br>
<p>The Seebuck drops steeply eastwards into the Feldsee lake, through which the Seebach flows, a stream that is later called the Gutach and then the Wutach. The Felsenweg ("Rock Path") which runs from the summit area down the steep mountainside to the Feldsee is only suitable for hikers with robust footwear and sure-footedness, but is very attractive thanks to its varied route and views of the Feldsee below.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<h3>Feldberg Tower</h3><br>
<p>The Feldberg Tower (Feldbergturm) is located on the Seebuck. This is a former transmission tower that now acts as an observation tower and, since 2013, has housed a ham museum.</p><br>
<h3>Summer</h3><br>
<p>The mountain is a popular destination for day trippers. The car park at the foot of the Seebuck is the base for numerous walks to the nearby ridge (to the Feldberg, Stübenwasen and Notschrei, to the Toter Mann, to the Herzogenhorn or to Hinterzarten), as well as walks to the nearby valleys (Menzenschwand valley, Wiese, St. Wilhelm&#39;s Valley, Zastler valley).</p><br>
<h2>Culture</h2><br>
<p>In the summit area of the Seebuck on the edge of the Feldsee bowl is a Bismarck monument made of rubble stone, and on which is a portrait medallion, that was built between 1895 and 1896 by Fridolin Dietsche. The relief was cast by Wilhelm Pelargus in Stuttgart, the first sketch was made by Karlsruhe professor, Karl Gagel (1861–1916). For its unveiling on 4 October 1896 the committee for the erection of the monument sent Otto von Bismarck a telegramme. His answer was printed in the Freiburger Zeitung:</p><br>
<p>The occasion itself celebrated with a banquet on the evening before and an official lunch on the day of the opening ceremony. To handle the numbers of festival guests, a special train ran from Freiburg nach Titisee on the Höllental Railway.</p><br>
<p>On September 2009 the monument was renovated, the first time for eleven years.</p><br>
<p>On the edge of the large car park at the foot of the Seebuck (near the Feldberger Hof) a nature conservation centre for the Southern Black Forest was built, the "House of Nature" (Haus der Natur). A little below it, above the federal road is the highest church in Germany: the Catholic parish church of the Transfiguration of Christ.</p><br>
<p>The Seekopf is a mountain on the main chain of the Northern Black Forest in Germany between the Upper Rhine Plain and the Murg valley. It is and lies on the boundary of the counties of Ortenaukreis and Freudenstadt in the state of Baden-Württemberg.</p><br>
<p>The mountain ridge, the upper area of which is formed of bunter sandstone, belongs to the natural region known as Grindenschwarzwald and Enzhöhen. The Black Forest High Road (B 500) runs along its western flank and, below the eastern mountainside, is a tarn, the Wildsee. The West Way runs over the mountain leading to Ruhestein, 1.5 kilometres to the southwest. The Seekopf lies within the Black Forest National Park, established in 2014.</p><br>
<p>On the summit plateau is the grave of Julius Euting, a well-known orientalist and co-founder of the Vosges Club.</p><br>
<h2>Nearby namesake</h2><br>
<p>Just 11 kilometres further north, also in the Northern Black Forest, stands another mountain with the same name, the Seekopf near Forbach-Herrenwies in the county of Rastatt.</p><br>
<p>The Stöcklewald is a mountain, in the southern part of the Central Black Forest in Germany between the towns of Furtwangen and Triberg, each about 5 kilometres distant, in the county of Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis. Towards the north, the Black Forest only exceeds this height again in the area of the Schliffkopf and the Hornisgrinde.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>The European Watershed between the Rhine and the Danube runs over the mountain. On its northern slopes rises the Gutach, which flows from here in a northwesterly direction through the Schönwald Highlands and drops over its northeastern edge as the Triberg Waterfalls. To the southeast flow the tributary streams of the Breg.</p><br>
<p>The northern foot of its gently-sloping domed summit may be reached on local Landesstraßen and Kreisstraßen, both from the aforementioned towns as well as from Schönwald and Brigach. From there a road runs up to the summit, where there is a Gasthaus, a hiker&#39;s home belonging to the Black Forest Club and the Stöcklewald Tower.</p><br>
<p>The parish boundary between the village of Rohrbach (in the borough of Furtwangen) and the municipality of Schönwald runs over the summit. The parish of Nußbach in the borough of Triberg also owns part of the northern mountainside. The summit with its tower and the hiking home lie within the parish of Furtwangen-Rohrbach.</p><br>
<h2>Stöcklewald Tower</h2><br>
<p>The roughly 25-metre-high observation tower was erected in 1894 by the Triberg Branch of the Black Forest Club in the shape of a round tower in the borough of Furtwangen and was inaugurated in May 1895. It is a popular destination on the Middle Way managed by the Black Forest Club. From the observation platform there are views over the Central Black Forest to the Feldberg and also a panorama of the Swabian Jura as well as views of the Alps from the Zugspitze to Mont Blanc. The platform is reached via a staircase with 127 steps.</p><br>
<p>The Stöcklewald Tower is also used as a communications relay station for police, THW, fire service, rescue services and amateur radio users.</p><br>
<p>The tower also acts as a radio relay station for broadband and internet services to the surrounding parishes.</p><br>
<h2>Surrounding area</h2><br>
<p>Around 800 metres northeast of the summit, near the road on the heights known as Hochgericht (1,020.6 m) are the Triberg Gallows. Another kilometre further northeast is a subpeak of the Stöcklewald, the Kesselberg (1,024.2 m) near an important crossroads. On the slopes of the mountain rises the Brigach stream and its most important tributary, the Kirnach. The Kesselberg Fault that runs through here is named after the mountain. This is a significant reason why the Stöcklewald peak is so clearly uplifted above the eastern slopes of the Black Forest, because it has retained a remnant in the fault zone of the bunter sandstone that originally lay on the basement.</p><br>
<p>Also in the surrounding area are sights such as St. Hubert&#39;s Chapel, a monument to popular religious devotion in an idyllic setting, the Triberg Waterfalls, one of the highest and best known waterfalls in Germany, and the source of the Brigach.</p><br>
<p>The Stübenwasen is the sixth highest mountain in the Black Forest after the Feldberg, Baldenweger Buck, Seebuck, Herzogenhorn and the Belchen. It is the highest point on the ridge between Schauinsland and Feldberg and is only separated from the latter by a wide saddle. To the north is the St. Wilhelm Valley, to the south the Wiesental with Todtnau and Todtnauberg.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation and use</h2><br>
<p>The summit of the Stübenwasen is not wooded. The sudden transitions to forest show, however, that this is not a natural treeline. The Stübenwasen would not be treeless just on account of its height; the treeline here, about 100 kilometres north of the nearest north Alpine peak could be expected to lie at about 1,650–. The highlands are used in summer as cattle pasture, in winter as a ski area.</p><br>
<h2>Tourism</h2><br>
<p>The Stübenwasen is thus well developed for tourism, although it is not accessible by car, like for example the Feldberg or the Kandel. West of the summit is an inn, the Berggasthaus Stübenwasen, built in 1935. It is accessible in summer on the footpath between Feldberg and Notschrei, and in winter on the Stübenwasenspur. In addition lifts run from Todtnauberg up the Stübenwasen, the Stübenwasen Lift (1,000 m long, from to ) and the Stübenwasen Summit Lift (Gipfellift) (400 m long, from to ).</p><br>
<p>Teckberg is a mountain at Landkreis Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, with an elevation of 775 metres. Situated on top is castle Teck.</p><br>
<h2>Geography</h2><br>
<p>The Teckberg jumps from Swabian Jura edge from about 3 km towards the north front and overlooks the Albvorland to 350 m, the Lauter (Neckar) valley to 400 m. He is flanked of the approximately 602 m high foothills Hörnle and Hohenbol north and northwest. Both Foothills include smokestacks of the Swabian volcano. North below the Hörnle is the glider area Teck (between Dettingen unter Teck and Bissingen an der Teck).</p><br>
<p>The slope of the Teckberg formed by the Yellow Rock, a Schwammriff the Jura sea of bright lime. Under the "Gelber Fels", is the 31 m long and 45 m high Veronikahöhle, which is connected through columns with Verena-Beutlins-Loch. East of the Gelber Fels (Yellow Rock) three grave mounds indicate from the Hallstatt period (800-400 BC) the early settlement of the Teckberg. Under the castle Teck is the 35 m long and 9 m high fabled Sibyllenloch, on the other side the 22 m long Sibyllenhöhle. It was only in 1937 discovered during construction work and was explored in 1977. During excavations in Sibyllenloch 1898/99 over 2,000 skeletal remains of cave bear, cave lion, cave hyena and wild horse were found. So many conclusions about the glacial fauna could be drawn.</p><br>
<h2>Nature Reserve</h2><br>
<p>With regulation of the Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart from 9 November 1999, the entire Teckberg with an area of 386.0 hectares was reported as nature reserve. It was managed to preserve and promote an unusually varied cultural landscape with wet and dry meadows, orchards, hedges, forest fringes, alleys, groves, solitary trees, rocks, caves, springs and rare natural forest communities. These habitats provide a quality habitat for a variety of partly endangered plant and animal species. In the versatile natural area botanists could show 464 different plant species.</p><br>
<h2>Literature</h2><br>
<p>(in German)</p><br>
<p>Wolfgang Roser, Jürgen Mauch: Der Schwäbische Vulkan. GO Druck-Media-Verlag, Kirchheim unter Teck 2003.</p><br>
<p>Konrad Theiss: Der Kreis Esslingen. Theiss, Stuttgart 1978.</p><br>
<p>Naturschutzgebiet Teck, hrsg. von der Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg (LfU). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000.</p><br>
<p>Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): Die Naturschutzgebiete im Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, S. 492–495</p><br>
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<p>Plettenberg is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is located in Zollernalbkreis.</p><br>
<h2>Vegetation</h2><br>
<p>The Plettenberg is not wooded. However, the sharp transition to forest illustrates it is no natural border. Even the top of the mountain does not reach the tree line which, in this region, would lie at around 1,650–1,700 metres.</p><br>
<p>Many of the open areas are habitats for specialised species of flora; these include bogs, rock faces and snow fields. Below the summit the mountain is covered by mixed forest consisting of beech, rowan, spruce and silver fir.</p><br>
<p>That is attributable to the intensive sheep farming in this region, which limits forest growth.</p><br>
<p>In 2017 milling maschines was used in the sensitive area.</p><br>
<h2>Butterflies</h2><br>
<p>Argynnis aglaja</p><br>
<p>Callophrys rubi</p><br>
<p>Erebia medusa</p><br>
<p>Zygaena viciae</p><br>
<p>Argynnis adippe</p><br>
<p>Boloria dia</p><br>
<p>Boloria euphrosyne</p><br>
<p>Coenonympha arcania</p><br>
<p>Colias alfacariensis</p><br>
<p>Cupido minimus</p><br>
<p>Erebia aethiops</p><br>
<p>Erebia ligea</p><br>
<p>Erynnis tages</p><br>
<p>Hamearis lucina</p><br>
<p>Lasiommata maera</p><br>
<p>Lasiommata megera</p><br>
<p>Limenitis camilla</p><br>
<p>Nymphalis antiopa</p><br>
<p>Polyommatus bellargus</p><br>
<p>Polyommatus coridon</p><br>
<p>Polyommatus semiargus</p><br>
<p>Satyrium w-album</p><br>
<p>Zygaena fausta</p><br>
<p>Zygaena transalpina</p><br>
<h3>Public viewing</h3><br>
<p>23.06.2017 there was a specially permission by the Regierungspräsidium Karlsruhe for everybody to catch butterflies.</p><br>
<p>Herbert Fuchs ( Naturschutzbüro Zollernalb) was the leader of the training course.</p><br>
<p>The Clock Tower  is a free-standing clock tower in the centre of Brighton, part of the English city of Brighton and Hove. Built in 1888 in commemoration of Queen Victorias Golden Jubilee, the distinctive structure included innovative structural features and became a landmark in the popular and fashionable seaside resort. The citys residents "retain a nostalgic affection" for it, even though opinion is sharply divided as to the tower&#39;s architectural merit. English Heritage has listed the clock tower at Grade II for its architectural and historical importance.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The small fishing village of Brighthelmston was transformed into a fashionable seaside resort and thriving commercial centre after local doctor Richard Russell&#39;s treatise explaining the health-giving effects of drinking and bathing in seawater became a fad in the late 18th century. Royal patronage ensued—the Prince Regent (later King George IV) moved into a farmhouse which became the lavish Royal Pavilion—and speculative residential and commercial development, encouraged by transport improvements, attracted large numbers of day-trippers, holidaymakers and new residents throughout the 18th and 19th centuries.</p><br>
<p>By the 1780s, North Street had become established as an important shopping street, and its status as the commercial heart of Brighton grew over the next century. It first developed as a route in the 14th century, when it formed the medieval villages northern boundary, and ran from west to east from the end of the main route from London towards the Royal Pavilion and the seafront. West Street, the ancient western boundary of the settlement, ran southwards towards the beach and seafront; and Queens Road was built straight through a slum area in 1845 to link the recently built railway station directly with the centre of Brighton. The western section of North Street was renamed Western Road in the 1830s to match the rest of that road, which was built as an access route to the high-class Brunswick Town estate but became the town&#39;s main shopping street by the 1860s (the remaining section of North Street was lined with offices and banks by this time).</p><br>
<p>The roads were widened in the second half of the 19th century, and by 1880 the junction of North Street, Western Road, West Street and Queen&#39;s Road was a major landmark with a small, old waiting shelter in the middle. The site was ideal for redevelopment, and in 1881 a competition was held for a replacement building. Architects Henry Branch and Thomas Simpson were recorded as the winners, but their plans were never executed and the site stood vacant until 1888.</p><br>
<p>Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee in 1887, and many towns built Jubilee clock towers to commemorate the occasion. A local advertising contractor, James Willing, decided to commission one for Brighton. He donated £2,000. The town organised an architectural competition which was won by a London-based architect, John Johnson. The tower was completed at the start of 1888 and was unveiled on 20 January 1888 on Willing&#39;s 70th birthday.</p><br>
<p>Local inventor Magnus Volk—responsible for Britains oldest surviving electric railway, an eccentric sea-based railway line, a pioneering electric car and Brightons first telephone link—designed a time ball for the clock tower soon after it opened. The hydraulically operated copper sphere moved up and down a 16 ft metal mast every hour, based on electrical signals transmitted from the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. The feature was disabled after a few years because of complaints about the noise it caused.</p><br>
<p>The tower was the focal point of several bursts of anti-Victorian sentiment in Brighton in the late 19th and early 20th centuries; as such it fulfilled a similar function to the Albert Memorial in London&#39;s Kensington Gardens, which was occasionally the scene of similar local and national demonstrations.</p><br>
<p>The tower is acknowledged as one of Brightons main landmarks and it has been likened to "a giant salt-cellar&quot but its idiosyncratic appeal has prompted descriptions such as "charmingly ugly" and "extremely charming and delightful", and the most recent academic study of the citys architecture acclaimed it as "supremely confident and showy".</p><br>
<p>The Clock Tower was listed at Grade II by English Heritage on 26 August 1999. This status is given to "nationally important buildings of special interest". As of February 2001, it was one of 1,124 Grade II-listed buildings and structures, and 1,218 listed buildings of all grades, in the city of Brighton and Hove.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>The Clock Tower is a Classical-style structure with Baroque touches. It rises to 75 ft, and the mast for Volks time ball adds a further 16 ft. The four clock faces have a diameter of 5 ft. and are inscribed on the clock faces. The square base is of pink granite, as are the Corinthian columns on each shaft; the rest of the structure is of Portland stone. On each side, the tapering columns rise part way up the shaft and are topped by pediments with open bases, below which is elaborately carved scrollwork and a protuberance designed to resemble the gunwale of a ship. Incised lettering on each ship indicates where they are pointing: clockwise from north, they show, and. Below these, each side has an arched recess containing a medallion-style mosaic portrait of a member of the Royal Family. At the corners of the base, there are carved stone statues of female figures. Above the pediments, the rusticated stone walls are decorated with pilasters, narrow round-headed recesses and a frieze formed by enclosed balusters. Pevsner saw Gothic elements in the design of this section. Above the frieze, an ornate cornice with turrets at each corner is topped by a dome with a copper fish-scale roof, the time ball and a weather-vane topped with James Willings initials. There had once been public toilets under the structure.</p><br>
<p>Rancho Cañada de los Coches was a 28 acre Mexican land grant in present day San Diego County, California given in 1843 by Governor Manuel Micheltorena to Apolinaria Lorenzana. This small land grant was located just west of Flinn Springs and in the center of Rancho El Cajon. The San Diego Mission fathers formerly watered their swine in dry seasons at a little spring arising from subterranean sources, thus giving it its name of "Glen of the Hogs". The site is now registered as California Historical Landmark #425.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Apolinaria Lorenzana (1790–1884) came to California with her mother in 1800. When her mother returned to Mexico, Apolinaria moved to San Diego, under the care of Raymundo Carrillo. Apolinaria Lorenzana remained a single woman devoted to the church. As a result of her religious devotion, she was called "La Beata", meaning "the pious one". Because of her devotion to the church the Padres at the San Diego Mission attempted to save some of the lands of the church from the secularization of its lands by giving her certificates for them as their owner in 1833-34. These were Cañada de los Coches, Rancho Jamacha and Rancho San Juan de Las Secuas. Lorenzana sold Rancho San Juan de Las Secuas to Juan Bautista López who solicited a grant for the land in 1836. She obtained grants for Jamacha in 1840 and Los Coches in 1843.</p><br>
<p>Lorenzana continued to live at the San Diego Mission but hired majordomo&#39;s to run her ranches and she would stay there occasionally. Following a further decline in the Mission, Lorenzana moved to San Juan Capistrano in 1846.</p><br>
<p>Lorenzana sold her Rancho Canada de los Coches to Anacleto Lestrade, a native of France, and a priest at the San Gabriel Mission 1851 -56. Lestrade was also the claimant for Rancho Rosa Castilla.</p><br>
<p>With the cession of California to the United States following the Mexican-American War, the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo provided that the land grants would be honored. As required by the Land Act of 1851, a claim was filed with the Public Land Commission in 1852, and the grant was patented to Anacleto Lestrada in 1873.</p><br>
<p>Sandstone Island is a small island located approximately one kilometre southeast of the Hastings foreshore in Western Port, Victoria, Australia. Sandstone Island has an area of approximately 20 hectares and is adjacent to Jacks Beach. The island lies in an area where significant mangrove communities exist. The Island itself is quite devoid of significant vegetation, however its location in an environmentally significant area in Western Port, places particular emphasis on ensuring appropriate use and development on the Island. The Island currently is in single ownership.</p><br>
<p>Like French Island, Sandstone Island is an unincorporated area of Victoria and both are subject to the http://planningschemes.dpcd.vic.gov.au/schemes/frenchisland French Island and Sandstone Island Planning Scheme.</p><br>
<p>Minertown-Oneva, also known as Minertown, in Forest County, Wisconsin is a historic logging camp built in the early 1900s by Wilbur and Henry T. Miner.</p><br>
<p>It&#39;s in the vicinity of Carter, Wisconsin.</p><br>
<p>According to the National Park Service:</p><br>
<p>In 1899, brothers Wilbur and Henry T. Miner from Vernon County, WI, purchased a 4,000 acre tract in Forest County, Wisconsin, where they constructed a sawmill and related settlement known as Minertown. The settlement included a boarding house and company store for those employed by the Miner Lumber Company, as well as a planing mill, roundhouse, depot, store, a blacksmith shop, a cook shanty, several small four-room houses, and a barn. In 1931, the mill was destroyed by fire and the remaining community was subsequently abandoned. Today, the Minertown-Oneva site is significant for its potential to provide information relevant to late nineteenth century settlement of Forest County, as well as the history of Wisconsin’s hardwood logging era.</p><br>
<p>The site was listed on the USA National Register of Historic Places on May 4, 2010.</p><br>
<p>St. Stephens Church, also known as St. Stephens Episcopal Church, is an historic church located at 6807 Northumberland Highway, Heathsville, Northumberland County, in the Northern Neck of Virginia. Built in 1881, it was designed in the Carpenter Gothic style by T. Buckler Ghequiere. On December 28, 1979, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It remains in use by an active parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. It is located in the Heathsville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>The church sits along USA Route 360 on the outskirts of Heathsville. Its main elevation, which faces the west, is dominated by a one-story porch. Its design consists of paired square columns supporting the roof, which is pitched steeply and topped with a cross. Inset is a Gothic-style arch with trefoils and wooden railing; the iron railing on the steps was added later. The double doorway which serves as a church entrance retains its original doors, patterned with a herringbone design and set with quatrefoils of stained glass, set inside a pointed arch. The porch is flanked by more stained glass windows on either side, quite narrow, and a rose window, also of stained glass, is set in the gable. At the very top of the roof is a cross; a finial and pendants make up the decoration of the gable. Inside the church are four bays at each elevation; each contains a stained glass window. The apse may be found in the east of the church; it is rectangular and lighted by three pointed windows, the center one larger than its fellows. A brick chimney on the exterior breaks the shape of the roof. A small vestry may be found beside the apse. A wooden communion rail separates the sanctuary from the nave. The reredos, pulpit, and lectern were constructed by a member of the parish, Clem Goodman. The pews are original. Also surviving is the original church bell, located outside the structure and to its east. The cemetery, behind the church, is a later addition to the grounds. The church design has been called "evidence of rural Virginia&#39;s architectural conservatism", as such churches were more likely to have been built earlier in northern states; it also reflects the influence of architect Richard Upjohn and his 1852 book Rural Architecture on many ecclesiastical architects.</p><br>
<p>The parish was founded in 1653 as Chickacoan Parish; it was renamed Fairfield Parish in 1664. St. Stephen&#39;s Parish was formed in 1698, and Fairfield Parish became its lower part; the upper part was formed from an area known to locals as Bowtracy Parish. It was represented in 1785, when the Episcopal Church of Virginia held its first convention, and it sent representatives intermittently to conventions until 1799. It was later disestablished, and its fortunes declined; by 1857 Bishop William Meade could note that there was no active church or parish in the entire county. Renewed interest after the American Civil War led to the purchase of land in 1874 for the purpose of erecting a new church. Materials were shipped down the Chesapeake Bay from Baltimore to build the structure, and it was completed and consecrated in 1881. Notably, the cornerstone states that the original name of the church was Emmanuel Church, but this appears never to have been used.</p><br>
<p>In 2006, the church was involved in a schism in the Episcopal Church when a majority of its congregants voted to become Anglican and join the Church of Nigeria instead of remaining Episcopalian. Some three dozen of those in the minority left, reforming as St. Stephen&#39;s Episcopal Church and meeting in various locations, such as a rented house nearby and a Methodist church. They sued for control of the church building and its related properties, including the parish hall, the cemetery, and a house next door; the suit was resolved in their favor in 2012, and an Episcopal congregation once again occupies the building, having returned on Palm Sunday of that year. The Anglican congregation meets elsewhere in Heathsville.</p><br>
<p>The congregation hosts a Strawberry Festival each year.</p><br>
<p>The Bordentown School , was a residential high school for African-American students, located in Bordentown in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States. Operated for most of the time as a publicly financed co-ed boarding school for African-American children, it was known as the "Tuskegee of the North" for its adoption of many of the educational practices first developed at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. The school closed down in 1955.</p><br>
<h2>Formation and operation</h2><br>
<p>The school was founded in 1886 in the New Brunswick house of the Rev. Walter A. Rice, a minister of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and former slave from Laurens, South Carolina. Born in 1845, Rice had fought as a volunteer with the Union Army during the American Civil War and went to New Jersey to get an education, after completing his military service. The state passed legislation in 1894 to designate the school as the state&#39;s instructional institution for vocational education. With this legislation, the school was placed under the aegis of a board of trustees composed of state and county officials. The school came under the direct auspices of the New Jersey Board of Education in 1903, with its capital expenditures, curriculum and staffing under state approval. In 1886, the school moved to Bordentown and moved in 1896 to a 400 acre tract there that had been owned by United States Navy Admiral Charles Stewart and known as the Parnell Estate. The state originally leased the land, and purchased it in 1901.</p><br>
<p>The school operated on a year-round basis. It had its own farm, cattle, and orchards that supplied the school with its food; scholarship students could work on the farm to cover their tuition. The school was selective and initially offered its 500 to 600 students an education in the Classics and Latin as part of its overall curriculum, which earned accolades from both W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington. Among notable lecturers at the school were Albert Einstein and Paul Robeson.</p><br>
<p>Because of financial difficulties, the school accepted state aid and was ultimately taken over by the State of New Jersey in 1897 and placed under the supervision of the New Jersey Department of Education in 1945. William R. Valentine, a graduate of both Columbia University and Harvard University, served as the school&#39;s principal from 1915 at least until 1948. Valentine stressed the approach of offering practical job training as a means to prevent students from becoming juvenile delinquents.</p><br>
<h2>Demise and closure</h2><br>
<p>After the passage of the 1947 New Jersey State Constitution, the term "for Colored Youth" was removed from the schools name and it became formally known as the "State of New Jersey Manual Training School" or "Manual Training and Industrial School for Youth" and was opened to students of all races as of 1948. In what was called "an example of desegregation in reverse" by The New York Times, Governor of New Jersey Robert B. Meyner ordered that the school be closed in June 1955, citing the schools failure to recruit and retain white students. The closing of the school ended segregation in the state&#39;s schools, which had persisted in many South Jersey school districts as late as 1952. In 1956, the site was slated to undergo a conversion to become a school for the developmentally disabled, which was estimated to cost as much as $3 million. The New York Times noted that the facilities were in disrepair, and that some buildings would require extensive repairs, while at least two minor structures were to be demolished. As of 2000, the buildings on the site were being used by the New Jersey Department of Corrections; many of the original buildings were in a dilapidated state.</p><br>
<p>The school was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. It was the subject of David Davidson&#39;s 2009 documentary film A Place Out of Time — The Bordentown School, narrated by Ruby Dee and broadcast on PBS in May 2010.</p><br>
<h2>Notable alumni</h2><br>
<p>Ethel Cuff Black, one of the founders of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.</p><br>
<p>May Edward Chinn (1896–1980), first Black woman to graduate from Bellevue Hospital Medical College.</p><br>
<p>George Franklin Grant (1846–1910), inventor of the golf tee.</p><br>
<p>George W. Haley (born 1925), former United States Ambassador to The Gambia, and brother of author Alex Haley.</p><br>
<h2>Notable faculty</h2><br>
<p>Lester Granger (1896–1976), National Urban League leader.</p><br>
<p>William H. Hastie (1904–1976), first African-American Governor of the United States Virgin Islands.</p><br>
<p>Ohio Boulevard–Deming Park Historic District is a boulevard in Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana.</p><br>
<p>The median is maintained by the city of Terre Haute as city park land. In the teardrop-shaped green space formed as the boulevard branches and widens between 19th and 20th streets is a fountain, restored in 2002. This small area was dedicated as Remembrance Plaza on September 11, 2002, in honor of those who lost their lives in the September 11 attacks one year prior.</p><br>
<p>The boulevard was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989 for its significance in architecture, landscaping and the history of the region.</p><br>
<h2>Deming Park</h2><br>
<p>Demas Deming Jr., the son of an early settler of Terre Haute, began developing the district on a large tract of land owned by his family. Using money acquired from the sale of another parcel of land to the city of Terre Haute that became Deming Park, around 1921 the Deming family created a scenic boulevard with a scenic parkway in the middle stretching from 19th Street to Fruitridge Avenue. Currently, the park consists of 177 acre and includes a public swimming pool, an 18-hole disc golf course, the Oakley Playground and the Clark-Landsbaum Holly Arboretum.</p><br>
<p>The Minster Elementary School is a historic Catholic school building in Minster, Ohio, United States. Built in the early twentieth century, it has been recognized as a historic site.</p><br>
<h2>Architecture</h2><br>
<p>Completed in 1906 in a modified version of the Italianate style, built on a stone foundation. Among its most distinctive features are a three-story tower in the center of the facade, ornamented brackets under the cornices of the corners, and dormer windows in the roof. The elementary school is related to St. Augustine&#39;s Catholic Church, which lies on the same property.</p><br>
<h2>Historic context</h2><br>
<p>The early settlers of southwestern Auglaize County and surrounding regions placed great value on the education of their children. These predominantly Catholic people founded many schools in connection with their churches, several of which are still in existence. Although some of these schools — generally the older buildings — are small structures, several are larger and architecturally distinctive buildings; among this latter category are the schools at Minster, St. Henry, and Wapakoneta. A parish school was first established at Minster in 1867; as St. Theresas School for Girls, it was partially meant to instruct girls who planned to enter the adjacent convent. This convent (now destroyed) was significant to the ecclesiastical position of St. Augustines as one of the three mother churches of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood in western Ohio. Today, St. Augustines is the only remaining one of these three — SS. Peters and Pauls Church at Petersburg and St. Valberts Church at St. Valbert have both been abandoned, and only their cemeteries remain.</p><br>
<h2>Historic preservation</h2><br>
<p>In 1979, the Minster Elementary School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places because of its well-preserved historic architecture. More than thirty other buildings, including St. Augustine&#39;s Church and eight other schools, were added to the Register at the same time as part of the "Cross-Tipped Churches of Ohio Thematic Resources." This group of buildings qualified for inclusion on the Register primarily because their historic architecture represented their connections to the Missionaries of the Precious Blood. Because many of these buildings are churches with tall Gothic Revival towers, the region has come to be known as the "Land of the Cross-Tipped Churches."</p><br>
<p>Old Germantown Academy and Headmasters&#39; Houses or The Old Campus is a historic school campus, the original site of Germantown Academy, located at Schoolhouse Lane and Greene Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Academy moved to a new suburban location in 1965, and the site is currently occupied by the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf.</p><br>
<p>After the founding of Germantown Academy in 1759, the land for the campus was donated by Dr. Charles Bensell, a prominent Germantown landowner and later trustee of Germantown Academy.</p><br>
<p>The first building on campus constructed was the old schoolhouse complete with its iconic Belfry. The building comprises local Wissahickon schist and is built in the colonial style. Until the move of 1965, the school would hold the title of having the oldest school still using its original building. The schoolhouse was replicated on the 1965 campus in Fort Washington.</p><br>
<p>The bell that hung in the belfry was first ordered in 1770 and brought over from England on the tea ship Polly. However, due to the tensions with the British crown in the early 1770s, the ship was unable to land and was brought to Chester, Pennsylvania until it could be transported to Germantown.</p><br>
<p>Seven years later, during the Battle of Germantown, Germantown Academy was used as a hospital and camp for the occupying British army. There are recorded stories that the troops used the Belfry (and its weathervane) for target practice before and after the battle. Today, the original weathervane, complete with a British crown (no longer in use) shows bullet damage. During the same occupation, legend tells that the first game of cricket played in the United States was played on the Academy lawns.</p><br>
<h2>Campus additions</h2><br>
<p>Between its start in 1759 until 1888, the campus changed very little even as the school grew in number and in prominence. At the insistence of alumni, a gymnasium was donated for student use. The building was known as Alumni Hall and was later converted into the school chapel after the building of a new gymnasium in 1950. The building was constructed closest to the corner of Schoolhouse Lane and Greene Street and was built in the colonial revival style of architecture.</p><br>
<p>At the turn of the century, GA had one of the most proactive and attentive alumni bodies in its history. These men proposed an addition to the 1760 schoolhouse from the rear. The addition was known as Sauer Hall (named after Christopher Sauer,one of the founders of the Academy and the publisher of the first German bible in America).</p><br>
<p>In 1920, the Academy purchased the adjoining property on Schoolhouse Lane (looking toward Wayne Avenue) known as the Alburger property, and later as the Dove House, and Kershaw Hall. The house had been constructed in the 1760s along with the schoolhouse as a house for one of the early masters of the Academy. Over time, it was used by different families and changed from its colonial origins into a building with distinct Victorian architectural traits.</p><br>
<p>The house hosted George Washington in 1793 briefly during his stay in Germantown during the Yellow Fever epidemic in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania while it was the home of GA German Master, Rev. Frederick Herman. There Washington and some of his former generals were treated to meals and was allegedly used the house for cabinet meetings during the epidemic.</p><br>
<p>The house was bought by the Academy in 1920 and was restored to its original colonial style in 1937. Originally two stories, a third story was built during its occupation by families. In the renovation, the third story was removed. Also in 1937, the house received an addition (in the same colonial style) which was used for kindergarten classrooms.</p><br>
<p>The next addition to campus came in 1932 after the death of young alumnus, Edward Wynne Moore,&#39;1903. In honor of his love for his school and the generosity of his parents, Moore Hall was constructed and served as a space for the intermediate grades. The building was constructed in the rear of the Dove House.</p><br>
<p>The last building to be built before the move to Fort Washington was the gymnasium built to the right of the Dove House (looking toward Wayne Avenue). The gym was built in 1950-51 in honor of the recent GA veterans of the World Wars.</p><br>
<h2>Athletic spaces</h2><br>
<p>In the rear of the nine acre property was an athletic field that served as a football and baseball field and a track, depending on the season. Due to the lack of space, many teams including the soccer and tennis teams had to play at the nearby Germantown Cricket Club. This developed a relationship between the club and the school that would last until the move. As there was no pool on the campus, the swim team practiced at the Germantown YMCA or in the nearby suburbs.</p><br>
<p>The site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.</p><br>
<p>The Brown Township Building is a historic building in downtown Ansonia, Ohio, United States. Built in the Italianate style in 1883,</p><br>
<p>Designed by John Fryberger of the Toledo-based Spitzer and Company, the Brown Township Building was built under the direction of O.J. Hager. Prominent among these ornaments are decorations on the roofline and at the primary entrance and the windows.</p><br>
<p>The Brown Township Building has been designated a historic site because of its well-preserved historic architecture and its contribution to local history. Although the building was erected in the 1880s, its historic significance was considered to extend into the period after World War II. This fact complicated the process of designating it a historic site; however, the National Park Service deemed the building worthy for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. It is the only Ansonia building that is listed on the Register.</p><br>
<p>Glengorm Castle, also known as Castle Sorn, is a 19th-century country house on the Isle of Mull, Scotland. Located 6 km northwest of Tobermory, the house is protected as a Category B listed building.</p><br>
<p>The Mishnish estate was purchased in 1856 by James Forsyth of Quinish. He cleared the existing township of Sorne to make way for the new house, which was completed in 1860. The house was designed by Kinnear and Peddie in a Scots Baronial style. It is now operated as a guest house and wedding venue, with a cafe and shop in the former stables. The castle is located on a headland and overlooks the Atlantic Ocean. On a clear day the Outer Hebrides and Islands of Uist, Rùm and Canna can be viewed from the castle.</p><br>
<p>Forsyth was a hated figure on the island. He cleared the crofters from the area by bullying and concerted pressure. One old woman had a title to her land which Forsyth took from her and throwing it into the fire told her she had a week to leave. Upon his return he was met by the woman and the local minister who had kept the original. Forsyth incadescent with rage decided to fence her in so that she could not leave to get provisions. However the woman managed very well it was said that men climb the cliffs near by to bring provisions. When Forsyth was building the castle he was told by an old woman he would never live in the place. He died just before it was opened. Forsyth when building asked an elderly woman what he should call his splendid new house, she said call it Glengorm, he did not understand that it means blue smoke a comment on the peat smoke that would no longer be seen from the houses of the people he had made homeless. Many of the folk moved into Tobermory to find work.</p><br>
<p>Dairsie Old Church, formerly St Mary&#39;s Church, is the former parish church of Dairsie, in north-east Fife, Scotland. It is located around 1.2 km south of Dairsie village. The present church was built in 1621, and is an unusual example of post-Reformation Gothic architecture in Scotland. and as a scheduled ancient monument.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>A church at Dairsie is recorded in 1183. In 1300 the church was granted to the Convent of St Andrews; it may have been rebuilt at this time.</p><br>
<p>In 1621, the present church was built by John Spottiswoode (1565–1639), Archbishop of St Andrews, who had recently bought the adjacent Dairsie Castle. The Spottiswoode family crest, with John Spottiswoode&#39;s initials, is carved over the west door.</p><br>
<p>In the late 18th century the original flat roof was replaced with the present piend (hipped) roof. A major refit was carried out in 1835–1837, including works to the interior, although most of this has since been removed.</p><br>
<p>Ecclesiastical use of the church ceased in 1966, the congregation now using the former Free Church in Dairsie village.</p><br>
<p>Dairsie Bridge is a 16th-century stone bridge, located 1.2 km south of Dairsie, in north-east Fife, Scotland. It carries a minor road across the River Eden, linking the parishes of Dairsie to the north and Kemback to the south. The bridge is protected as a Category A listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>There was an earlier bridge at Dairsie, as it is recorded that King James IV crossed it on his way from St Andrews to Stirling in 1496.</p><br>
<p>The present bridge bears an inscribed stone displaying the arms and initials of James Beaton (1473–1539), Archbishop of St Andrews, and it is likely that he ordered the bridge to be built during his episcopate (1522–1539). Nearby Dairsie Castle had been a property of the archbishops of St Andrews until the early 16th century.</p><br>
<p>The three-arched bridge is 30 m long and 3.5 m wide. The Eden flows under the two southern arches, and cutwaters project from the bridges piers. Only minor alterations, to the parapets and approaches, have been carried out since the bridges construction.</p><br>
<p>The Swisshelm Mountains are a small mountain range adjacent to the southwest corner of the Chiricahua Mountains of eastern Cochise County, Arizona. They are separated from the Pedrogosa Mountains to the southeast, the Chiricahua&#39;s to the northeast, and by Leslie Creek, bordering the south and east; the area is now notable for the Leslie Canyon National Wildlife Refuge.</p><br>
<p>The mountain range is named for John Swisshelm, a miner, a local settler of the late 1900s.</p><br>
<h2>Range</h2><br>
<p>The range is a north-south range, with three notable peaks. In the south, Swisshelm Mountain is the highest at 7,185 ft. In the north, an unnamed peak is 5225 ft, and is adjacent to Whitewater Draw of the lower stretch of Rucker Creek. A second unnamed peak is in the northeast, at 5847 ft and also adjacent to Rucker Creek.</p><br>
<p>Leslie Creek forms the eastern and southern border of the Swisshelm Mountains. The Chiricahua&#39;s are directly adjacent eastwards; the Pedregosa Mountains are southeast and are drained by a tributary of Leslie Creek, Big Bend Creek.</p><br>
<p>The communities of Elfrida and McNeal are directly west of the Swisshelm&#39;s in the Sulphur Springs Valley; Douglas and Agua Prieta, Sonora are due south at about 15 mi. The historical area of Sunizona, Arizona is northwest-(Pearce, Arizona).</p><br>
<p>Troy House is a Welsh historic house, on a "ducal" scale, north-east of Mitchel Troy, Monmouthshire. The original house belonged to Blanche Herbert, Lady Troy, of the Herbert family of Raglan Castle, who owned great estates in South Wales as Marquesses of Worcester and later Dukes of Beaufort. The present structure, overlooking the River Trothy was constructed from 1681 to 1684 as a wedding present for Charles Somerset by his father, Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort. Troy House is a Grade II* listed building.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>In 1667 Henry Somerset succeeded his father to the title of Marquess of Worcester. Henry, a staunch supporter of Charles II, restored the family fortunes and built a series of residences to replace the slighted Raglan Castle. He started with Great Castle House, in Monmouth in 1673, continued with Badminton House in Gloucestershire, and built the new Troy House as a wedding gift to his son Charles. In Monmouth Museum there is a painting by Hendrick Danckerts, dated circa 1672, which shows Troy House in a panorama of Monmouth.</p><br>
<p>In 1682 Charles Somerset married Rebecca Child and acquired the title of Marquess of Worcester. Between 1682 and 1699 he expanded Troy House and rebuilt the facade in neoclassical style. The house remained the property of the Somersets until the death of Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort in 1899. At this time, the family consolidated its estates around Badminton House in Gloucestershire and the descendants of the 8th Duke auctioned off the 1,670 acre Troy estate along with most of their Welsh properties. In 1872, a gazetteer reported that the cradle belonging to Henry V together with the alleged armour Henry V wore at Agincourt were said to be at "the mansion" in Mitchel Troy.</p><br>
<p>Troy House was purchased by the Good Shepherd Sisters in 1904 and converted to a convent school. The catholic nuns expanded the estate with a chapel, a hostel and service buildings. In 1935 the institution was converted into an approved school with state financing. The building gradually deteriorated, and in the 1980 the school moved out. In 2009 proposals were put forward by a property developer to divide the house into residential units. The proposed enabling development would involve the construction of two entirely new wings which were intended to accommodate more units than would the original house. Preservationists divided over the proposals: SAVE Britains Heritage concurred with the developers analysis, others, including the Georgian Group expressed fears that the plans would constitute significant overdevelopment of the house and site. In 2015 Monmouthshire County Council funded a protected species survey required for consideration of the redevelopment proposals. As of 2017, the house remains empty, except for a caretaker.</p><br>
<h2>Description</h2><br>
<p>The house is very large, "three bays deep but no less than thirteen bays wide", in a style that was very modern for the date of design, "a hipped roof over a regularly fenestrated block." Some 19th-century authors wrongly attributed the design of the house to Inigo Jones. However the Monmouth antiquarian Charles Heath doubted the attribution in 1804, writing, "The house is said to have been built by Inigo Jones but I do not think the report well founded." The historian William Coxe, writing in his An Historical Tour In Monmouthshire in 1801, was also sceptical; "It does not reflect much credit on the taste of that eminent architect, having a long, straggling front, and being built in so low a situation as to exclude all prospect from the habitable apartments."</p><br>
<p>Local historian Keith Kissack described the house as "not very impressive externally" but the interior contains "three good-quality, typically Jacobean decorated ceilings." The building once contained panelling from Raglan Castle but this was subsequently removed to Badminton House.</p><br>
<h2>Images</h2><br>
<p>A Panorama of Monmouth with Troy House, c.1672.jpgA Panorama of Monmouth with Troy House, c.1672 by Hendrick Danckerts</p><br>
<p>Front View of Troy House (3375600).jpgFront view of Troy House (1793)</p><br>
<p>Troy House Monmouth.jpgTroy House, between about 1890 and 1900</p><br>
<p>Troy House.jpgTroy House and surrounding countryside (2007)</p><br>
<h2>Monmouth Troy House station</h2><br>
<p>In 1857 the Coleford, Monmouth, Usk and Pontypool Railway built a railway station north of Troy House. It was inaugurated as Monmouth Troy House station, but the name was soon reduced to Monmouth Troy. It was closed to passenger traffic in 1959 and completely shut down in 1964. In 1985 the brick station building was carefully disassembled and in 1987-1999 rebuilt on the site of Winchcombe railway station of the heritage Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway.</p><br>
<p>Kings Hill Pass is part of the Kings Hill Scenic Byway which passes through the Little Belt Mountains in the Lewis and Clark National Forest in Montana, United States. The route is home to a wide variety of wildlife and provides many recreational opportunities for travelers on the route. The Byway is a 71-mile route that begins on US Highway 89 at its junction with US Highway 12. From the junction the Byway travels north through the Lewis and Clark National Forest through the communities of Neihart and Monarch Montana and on to its junction with US Highway 87. The route offers access to the Showdown Ski Area and Sluice Boxes State Park. The route travels over the Kings Hill Pass near Monarch Montana which snow removal crews work to keep open throughout the winter season. Kings Hill Pass is at an elevation of 7,393 feet. There is an observation tower that offers views of the Lewis and Clark National Forest that is popular with visitors.</p><br>
<p>Old North Knoxville is a neighborhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, United States, located just north of the citys downtown area. Initially established as the town of North Knoxville in the late-19th century, the area was a prominent suburb for Knoxvilles upper middle and professional classes until the 1950s. After a period of decline, perservationists began restoring many of the neighborhood&#39;s houses in the 1980s. In 1992, over 400 houses and secondary structures in the neighborhood were added to the National Register of Historic Places as the Old North Knoxville Historic District.</p><br>
<p>In the years following the Civil War, Knoxville experienced an economic boom that brought about a rapid increase in the citys population. The city gradually expanded northward and westward to accommodate the influx of new residents. The housing boom reached what is now Old North Knoxville in the late 1880s, when it was incorporated as the town of North Knoxville, and continued after its annexation by Knoxville in 1897. The neighborhoods earliest residents included doctors, politicians, and business managers, and some its earliest houses were designed by prominent Knoxville architects, such as George Barber, Charles Barber, and David Getaz. As Knoxville continued expanding northward, most notably with the annexation of Fountain City in 1962, North Knoxville became "Old" North Knoxville.</p><br>
<h2>Location</h2><br>
<p>Old North Knoxville is located just off Broadway (part of USA Route 441), about halfway between downtown Knoxville to the south and Sharps Ridge to the north. The neighborhood straddles a hill that gradually rises from First Creek and descends toward Second Creek. East Scott Avenue traverses the hills crest, with the slopes gradually descending southward to East Baxter Avenue and northward to East Woodland Avenue, leaving the houses along East Scott approximately 20 to 40 feet higher than other houses in the neighborhood.</p><br>
<p>The Old North Knoxville Historic District is roughly bounded by East Woodland Avenue to the northwest, Bluff Street to the northeast, Armstrong Avenue to the east, and Central Avenue to the south. Several other historic districts lie in the vicinity, namely Mechanicsville to the southwest, Fourth and Gill to the south, Park City to the east, and North Hills to the northeast.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>North Knoxville remained predominantly rural until the latter half of the 19th century. An 1871 map of Knoxville shows scant development along "Broad Street" (Broadway) north of the Knoxville National Cemetery. In the years after the Civil War, however, Knoxville&#39;s railroad access and an influx of northern capital helped make Knoxville a major warehousing and textile manufacturing center, bringing about an exponential increase in population. By 1886, several houses and several roads (including Armstrong and "Kennion") had been built in what is now Old North Knoxville, and several factories had been built nearby along Second Creek, namely the Brookside Cotton Mill, the Fantz (Fanz) Sausage Factory, and two marble works.</p><br>
<p>Rather than wait for annexation by Knoxville in order to obtain city services, North Knoxville incorporated as a separate city on January 16, 1889. L. A. Gratz was elected as the town&#39;s first mayor. The new town secured contracts for water and electric lighting deemed superior to the contracts Knoxville had forged, and North Knoxville School was held in high esteem by parents. At the time of its incorporation, North Knoxville was considered one of the best residential neighborhoods in Knoxville, due in part to its relatively small concentration of lower class residents, and by 1895, the town had a population of 3,200. North Knoxville was annexed by Knoxville in 1897.</p><br>
<p>By the early 1900s, trolley tracks connected North Knoxville to downtown Knoxville. The neighborhood consisted primarily of upper middle and professional class residents, including business managers, doctors, lawyers, and professors. One section of Glenwood Avenue was known as "Doctors&#39; Hill," since nearly every home on the block was occupied by a physician. Business leaders living in the neighborhood included Brookside Cotton Mill manager William Lang, H. T. Hackney Company president (and later mayor of Knoxville) Benjamin Morton, and several Southern Railway officials. George Dempster, inventor of the Dempster-Dumpster and a mayor of Knoxville, lived in Old North Knoxville in the 1920s.</p><br>
<p>North Knoxville continued to grow until the 1940s, by which time most of the original residents had died or moved away. Knoxvilles continued expansion northward and westward, as well as the onset of automobile travel, drew the residents of the citys early suburbs further out to newer neighborhoods along the citys periphery. During the 1950s and 1960s, many of the neighborhoods larger houses were converted into low-rent apartments, causing a decline in housing values. The formation of the Old North Knoxville Neighborhood Association in the 1970s, however, led to the restoration and rehabilitation of most the neighborhood&#39;s historic homes.</p><br>
<h2>Old North Knoxville Historic District</h2><br>
<p>The Old North Knoxville Historic District covers 324 acre, and includes properties along Alexander Street, East Anderson Avenue, Armstrong Avenue, East Baxter Avenue, Cornelia Street, Folsom Avenue, Fremont Place, Glenwood Avenue, Harvey Street, Kenyon Street, Kern Place, Matthews Place, McMillan Street, East Oklahoma Avenue, Rader Place, East Scott Avenue, Shepherd Place, Stewart Place, Thompson Place, and East Woodland Avenue. The district&#39;s 496 contributing buildings and structures consist primarily of houses and outbuildings, with one commercial structure. The neighborhood is characterized by short front lawns and large sidewalks. Circa-1907 "Granitoid" pavement, known locally as "singing" pavement due to the sound it makes when cars drive over it, is still found along Kenyon Street.</p><br>
<p>Houses in Old North Knoxville include designs by three established architects&mdash; George F. Barber, his son, Charles Barber, and the Swiss-born David Getaz. Architectural styles represented in the district include Queen Anne, Eastlake, Folk Victorian, Bungalow/Craftsman, Dutch Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Neoclassical Revival, American Foursquare, and Shingle. The district has one Colonial Revival home (517 East Oklahoma) and one home designed in the French Eclectic style (518 Glenwood).</p><br>
<h3>Notable houses</h3><br>
<p>W. R. Cooper House (1212 Kenyon Ave.), a Folk Victorian house built circa 1883, moved approximately one block to its present location in 1900.</p><br>
<p>Thomas Fitzgerald House (311 Glenwood Ave.), a Folk Victorian house built circa 1888.</p><br>
<p>Lou-Mar (505 East Scott Avenue), built 1889, a Queen Anne-style house designed by architect David Getaz.</p><br>
<p>James Eugene Fair House (241 East Scott Ave.), a Queen Anne-style house built in 1896.</p><br>
<p>Pine Crest (131 East Scott Avenue), a Folk Victorian house built in 1899 for Brookside Mills manager William Lang, and designed by architect George F. Barber.</p><br>
<p>James B. Dunn Mansion (1424 Armstrong Avenue), a large Neoclassical-style house built in 1905.</p><br>
<p>131 East Oklahoma Avenue, a Neoclassical-style house built around 1910, noted for its oversized columns.</p><br>
<p>518 Glenwood Avenue, a French Eclectic-style house built in 1925, and designed by architect Charles I. Barber of the firm, Barber & McMurry.</p><br>
<p>George Dempster House (235 East Scott Avenue), an American Foursquare-style house built in 1926; the home of the prominent Knoxville businessman and mayor.</p><br>
<p>Marble Hill (125 East Glenwood Avenue), an Arts and Crafts "bungalow mansion" built in 1916, and designed by Martin E. Parmelee. Built for the Samuel T. Buffat family. Buffat was an executive with the H. T. Hackney Company. Fountain City banker William S. McKinney purchased the home in 1920. From 1965-2003, it was the home of noted bluegrass musician Daniel E. Bailey, a member of the Bailey Brothers and the Happy Valley Boys. Bailey was also grocer Cas Walker&#39;s radio announcer.</p><br>
<p>The Davenport House, also known as Sans-Souci, is an 1859 residence in New Rochelle, New York, designed by architect Alexander Jackson Davis in the Gothic Revival style. The "architecturally significant cottage and its compatible architect-designed additions represent a rare assemblage of mid-19th through early 20th century American residential design". The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.</p><br>
<h2>Setting</h2><br>
<p>The home is located in a residential section of New Rochelle, a suburb just to the north of New York City. The sprawling 11,216 ft&sup2, 39 room house is one of the largest in the area and is deeply set back from Davenport Road. The house&#39;s original setting included several undeveloped acres. Today, upper-middle and upper-class, single-family detached housing surrounds the property on all four sides. The property boasts mature trees, numerous bushes, a large front lawn, a circular driveway and stone entrance pillars, with wrought-iron fence and gates.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The cottage was built in 1859 for Lawrence Montgomery Davenport whose great grandfather had purchased the extensive Sound shore property known today as Davenport Neck. At the time of its construction in 1858, only a handful of dwellings were located on the promontory including several owned by Davenports close relatives. With a commanding view of Long Island Sound, meadows, and groves of fruit trees, the property was ideally situated for Davis scenic sense. The original -story blue-stone cottage features a large center gable, bargeboards, symmetrical chimneys, decorative shields, and diamond-paned oculi windows.</p><br>
<p>Mrs. Anthony Walton White Evans purchased the home in 1865, and in 1871 hired Davis to design a one-story wing on the south side of the house. The addition included a library, semi-circular billiard room and conservatory. In 1875, the family hired architect Frederick Coles to add a similar wing on the north side. Shortly after, a second story was added to both the north and south wing adding numerous bedrooms and bathrooms to both. In 1912 the north wing was further expanded and includes the large kitchen, pantry, a small dining room, and second stairwell.</p><br>
<p>The home remained in the Evans family until 1922 when its next owner, Leroy Frantz, transformed the first floor of the southern wing into a ballroom.</p><br>
<h2>Design</h2><br>
<p>All rooms in the building have "intricately designed parquet floors". The main entrance hall has an open staircase, molded cornices, and a red marble fireplace. The semi-circular library has a wood-panelled ceiling, a fireplace and bookcases. The former billiard room has molded cornices, dado, and sliding interior shutters. The parlor and dining room have molded cornices, glazed sliding doors, and red marble fireplaces. Some of the other rooms have fireplaces and the semi-circular master bedroom has a sleeping porch.</p><br>
<p>The interiors of the house and its period additions are largely unchanged. Original A. J. Davis details are abundant and include crenelated cornices in the parlor and dining room, original marble mantelpieces and decorative corbels in two second-floor bedrooms.</p><br>
<p>The Agriculture Building at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>The Agriculture Building and Engineering Building were both built using the same funding from the Arkansas Legislature. Completed in 1927, the Agriculture Building hosted a library, the agronomy, horticulture, plant pathology, rural economics and sociology, and entomology departments, in addition to offices. A new Plant Pathology building was built in 1978, taking some of the aforementioned departments. The two buildings are connected by a skywalk. It now contains the agribusiness and economics, agricultural and extension education, agricultural communications, and entomology departments.</p><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall at the University of Arkansas is a building on the University&#39;s campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall was built in 1935 as "Classroom Building" with two other structures: the Home Economics Building and the old Student Union. Using Indiana Limestone, the building was finished in 1940 by the Manhattan Construction Company of Muskogee, OK. It initially held faculty only. The Commerce Building was finished in 1947, and the two buildings were connected. It was at this time that the structure was named the Business Administration Building. Five other departments were also housed in this building until the namesake moved out in 1978 to a new Business Building on Ozark Avenue. It was then renamed Ozark Hall, which it remained named until 2015. In 1987, the Commerce Building-portion was razed. The building then came to house the Graduate School, the department of geosciences, and the nursing program. In December 2015, Ozark Hall was renamed Gearhart Hall to honor G. David Gearhart, the fifth and former chancellor of the university.</p><br>
<h2>Renovation project</h2><br>
<p>Gearhart Hall was expanded over the approximate location of the old Commerce Building. The three-year project was completed in 2014. The new wing houses the Honors College and a few classrooms. As part of the expansion, the remaining classrooms also received restoration and updating.</p><br>
<p>Crosby Hall is a historic building in London. The Great Hall was built in 1466 and originally stood in Bishopsgate, in the City of London, but was moved in 1910 to its present site in Cheyne Walk, Chelsea. It now forms part of a private residence. The Great Hall, and additional work of 1910 and 1925–6, are listed Grade II*. Although fragmentary and not on its original site, this is the only example of a medieval City merchant house surviving in London.</p><br>
<h2>History</h2><br>
<h3>Bishopsgate</h3><br>
<p>The Great Hall is the only surviving part of the medieval mansion of Crosby Hall, Bishopsgate, in the City of London, which was built in 1466 by the wool merchant Sir John Crosby. By 1483, the Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, had acquired the Bishopsgate property from the original owners widow. The Hall was used as one of his London homes. It was used as the setting for a scene in William Shakespeares Richard III. In the reign of Henry VIII it belonged to Antonio Bonvisi.</p><br>
<p>From 1621 to 1638 it was the home of the East India Company. Following a fire in 1672 only the Great Hall and Parlour wing of the mansion survived; it then became a Presbyterian meeting house, and then a warehouse with an inserted floor.</p><br>
<h3>Chelsea</h3><br>
<p>In 1910, the medieval structure was reprieved from threatened demolition and moved stone by stone to its present site, provided by the former London County Council, largely at public expense. The neo-Tudor brick additions designed by Walter Godfrey were constructed around it. The salvage, catalogue and storage were paid for by the Bank of India, who had purchased the Bishopsgate site to build offices. In 1916, the building housed Belgian refugees, as noted in an essay by Henry James.</p><br>
<p>Godfrey also added the north wing in 1925–6 as a womens university hall of residence for the British Federation of University Women. The site passed to the Greater London Council (GLC), who maintained it until 1986, when the GLC was abolished. The London Residuary Body, charged with disposing of the GLCs assets, put Crosby Hall up for sale.</p><br>
<p>Crosby Hall was bought in 1989 by Christopher Moran, a businessman who is the Chairman of Co-operation Ireland. Until then the site&#39;s frontage had been open to Cheyne Walk and the River Thames and its central garden was open to the public. Moran commissioned a scheme to close the frontage with a new building and convert the complex to a luxury mansion. The scheme caused considerable controversy, but was given permission after a Public Inquiry in December 1996, following two previous refusals by Kensington and Chelsea Council.</p><br>
<h2>Notable residents at the original site</h2><br>
<p>Richard Duke of Gloucester 1483.</p><br>
<p>Sir Thomas More 1523–4.</p><br>
<p>William Roper (son-in-law of Thomas More), 1547.</p><br>
<p>Sir Walter Raleigh 1601.</p><br>
<p>Owned by the Earl of Northampton between 1609 and 1671, and the residence of poet Mary Sidney from 1609 to 1615.</p><br>
<p>Headquarters of the East India Company 1621–38.</p><br>
<p>Charles Sumner Post #25, Grand Army of the Republic is a historic fraternal lodge building located in Chestertown, Kent County, Maryland. Named after Charles Sumner, it was constructed as a meeting hall about 1908 and is a two-story gable-front frame building, built on brick piers, with a rectangular floor plan. It is located in the Scotts Point area, a historically black area within the Chestertown Historic District, and was abandoned between 1985 and 2002. It is one of only two Grand Army of the Republic halls for African-American veterans known to survive in the Nation.</p><br>
<p>It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. In 2012, Preservation Maryland placed the Charles Sumner Post #25 on its list of threatened historic properties.</p><br>
<p>The building has been restored by the Kent County Arts Council and opened to the public in 2014 as a museum of American Civil War history and the role of African-Americans in the war.</p><br>
<p>The Samuel Davis House is a historic farmhouse located near the cities of Columbus and Dublin in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. One of the county&#39;s older buildings, it was home to a pioneer settler, and it has been named a historic site.</p><br>
<p>Samuel Davis was born in Litchfield, Connecticut in 1763, but after a time of apprenticeship to a silversmith, he joined the Continental Army and fought in the American Revolution. Following the end of the war, he travelled west to Kentucky County, Virginia to trade silver gadgets with the Indians. Here he met numerous frontiersmen of renown, including Daniel Boone, Nathaniel Massie, and Simon Kenton. After a period of time serving as a scout for a military group called Mason County Spy Company (assembled under Simon Kenton and General Scott, he found the present property and bought it in March 12 1814 from a Highland County resident, and he built his house here in the following year.</p><br>
<p>Davis house is a simple rectangular building constructed of simple stonework. Little craftsmanship was expended on the house; the only dressed stone in the walls, for example, is found on the quoins. The stone for the house came from Davis own property; large amounts of stone were necessary, as the building&#39;s walls are 18 in thick. Built in the Federal style, it is the oldest stone house still standing in Franklin County. In 1974, the Davis House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying because of its historically significant architecture; it is one of numerous National Register-listed properties located along Dublin Road in and south of the city of Dublin.</p><br>
<p>The San Luis Mountains are a small, lower elevation mountain range of central-southern Pima County Arizona adjacent the USA-Mexico border, northeast of Sasabe, Arizona–Sasabe, Sonora.</p><br>
<p>The range is northwest-southeast trending, about 10 mi in length. The range borders the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge to the west; both are in the southeast of the Altar Valley. The southeast of the range abuts Cobre Ridge, with various peaks, and Cobre Ridge borders the western edge of the Pajarito Wilderness, at the west end of the Pajarito Mountains.</p><br>
<p>The community of Arivaca lies in the valley northeast of the San Luis Mountains at the southeast end of the Las Guijas Mountains; Arivaca Lake lies about 5 mi upstream on Arivaca Wash. The International Border lies less than one mile south of the southern margin of the range in Fresnal Wash. Cumero Mountain Peak at 4,698 ft is 2.1 mi north of the border.</p><br>
<p>Two mountain ranges, the San Luis in the southwest, and the Cerro Colorado Mountains northwest lie west of the four-mountain sequence of the Tumacacori Highlands-(of adjacent western Santa Cruz County) of the Tumacacori, Atascosa, Pajarito, and the Sierra La Esmeralda mountain ranges. The Highlands are now part of a conservancy study of wild cat travel corridor usage between mountains, the study called Cuatros Gatos-(Four Cats), for the mountain lions, bobcat, ocelot, and jaguar.</p><br>
<p>The Uniopolis Town Hall is a historic village hall and museum in Uniopolis, Ohio, United States. Built in 1875, this Gothic Revival structure was built as a church, the Divinity Church of the United Brethren in Christ. The building ceased to be used for this purpose in 1900, when it was purchased by the village of Uniopolis and converted into a village hall. After more than ninety years of service as a village hall, the building began a process of conversion into the museum of the Uniopolis Historical Society.</p><br>
<p>The Uniopolis Town Hall is a simple Carpenter Gothic structure with five lancet windows on each side. Its weatherboarded walls rest upon a foundation of concrete and are topped with a roof of asphalt. As the Uniopolis municipal building, it has served a range of non-governmental purposes, including use as a community meeting room and as an auditorium. In recognition of its importance to the community, the village hall was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. Although it was built in 1875, its primary use as a community building means that its period of historic significance was deemed to have begun in 1900.</p><br>
