Lotterberg

Lotterberg is a 305m high hill between the villages of Wolfershausen and Deute in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.GeologyThe hill is composed of basalt that fills the neck of a now-extinct volcano. The volcanic activity was during the Miocene (Neogene), that is it started and ended. This volcano was one of many in the West Hesse Depression. The alkali basalt has a silica (SiO2) volume percentage of 45-55%. The main minerals in the rock are plagioclase, augite and olivine.On the west side of the Lotterberg is a deposit of loess, which formed after the last Quaternary glaciation.FloraLotterberg is covered by a mixed forest and is used for forestry. The rare Turk's cap lily grows on the summit. The plant is protected under German conservation law.HistoryThere is evidence that the area around Lotterberg was populated at least from the Late Paleolithic onwards, as has been shown for the Felsberg area in general, e.g. by the existence of The Rhünda Skull. A single find of an asymmetrical, facetted, Neolithic axe on Lotterberg collaborates this.