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Landkreis Esslingen Esslingen is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the centre of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from north clockwise) Rems-Murr, Göppingen, Reutlingen, Böblingen and the district-free city Stuttgart. Until 15 October 1964 t ...

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Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

, Germany, with an elevation of 775 metres. Situated on top is castle

Teck Teck may refer to: * Teck Castle (Burg Teck) in Württemberg, Germany * Teckberg, mountain on which it is located * Duke of Teck, a title of nobility, associated with Teck Castle * Teck Railway, Germany * Teck Resources, a Canadian mining company ...

Geography

The Teckberg jumps from

Swabian Jura The Swabian Jura (german: Schwäbische Alb , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of ...

edge from about 3 km towards the north front and overlooks the Albvorland to 350 m, the

Lauter (Neckar) The Lauter is a right tributary of the Neckar in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It arises on the Albtrauf escarpment of the Swabian Alb. History The Lauter is formed by the confluence of the White Lauter, which rises east of Gutenberg and the B ...

valley to 400 m. He is flanked of the approximately 602 m high foothills Hörnle and

Hohenbol The Hohenbol is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. *Hohenbol (Baden-Württemberg) *Type Witnesses Mountain of volcanic origin The Hohenbol is a high mountain 2 kilometers from the town of Owen in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Wü ...

north and northwest. Both Foothills include smokestacks of the Swabian volcano. North below the Hörnle is the glider area Teck (between

Dettingen unter Teck Dettingen is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geography Dettingen is located 40 km southeast of Stuttgart and 4 km south of Kirchheim unter Teck at an elevation of between 329 t ...

and

Bissingen an der Teck Bissingen is a municipality in the district of Esslingen in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Geographical location Bissingen lies at the foot of the Swabian Jura, the district Ochsenwang on the Alb plateau. The municipality covers an al ...

). 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 The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Western Europe, Western and Central European Archaeological culture, culture of Late Bronze Age Europe, Bronze Age (Hallstatt A, Hallstatt B) from the 12th to 8th centuries BC and Early Iron Age Europe ...

(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.

Nature Reserve

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.

Literature

(in German) *Wolfgang Roser, Jürgen Mauch: ''Der Schwäbische Vulkan.'' GO Druck-Media-Verlag,

Kirchheim unter Teck Kirchheim unter Teck ( Swabian: ''Kircha'') is a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, in the district of Esslingen. It is located on the small river Lauter, a tributary of the Neckar. It is 10 km (6 miles) near the Teck castle, approximately ...

2003, . *Konrad Theiss: ''Der Kreis Esslingen.'' Theiss, Stuttgart 1978, . *''Naturschutzgebiet Teck'', hrsg. von der Landesanstalt für Umweltschutz Baden-Württemberg (LfU). Verlag Regionalkultur, Ubstadt-Weiher 2000. . * Reinhard Wolf, Ulrike Kreh (Hrsg.): ''Die Naturschutzgebiete im Regierungsbezirk Stuttgart''. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2007, , S. 492–495 {{Nature reserves in the district of Esslingen Mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg Mountains and hills of the Swabian Jura Mountains under 1000 metres Protected areas of Europe