de Friezenberg in Overijssel...

The Friezenberg is a 40.2 meter high hill in the Twentse municipality of Hof van Twente in the Dutch province of Overijssel. It is a melting water hill, and therefore a geological monument. The mountain lies in the nature reserve De Borkeld, on the heath near Markelo between the neighborhoods Elsen and Herike. [1]

The Friezenberg is part of the Rijssen dam. This consists of a mixture of glue and glacier debris that has been transported through Glaciers to this area in Pleistocene. Due to the driving force of land ice during the Saaline, the last period in which land ice came into central Netherlands, the hills were formed. The stray stones in this area have been brought from Scandinavia by the ice mass. After the landscaping of the land ice, about 200,000 years ago, there was a tundra climate in the barely populated area with large sandstorms. Because of this everything is covered with a layer of cover sand.

In the heathlands on and around the Frisian mountain, including the Elsenerveld, there are thirty-five to five-thousand-year-old grave hills. These are on the list of protected archaeological monuments. The first occupation traces date back thirteen thousand years ago, this concerns stone tools of hunter-gatherers who probably stayed for hunting in the area.

Nature reserve 'Friezenberg' (10 ha) is the oldest property of the Landschap Overijssel Foundation. It was donated in 1935 by the textile baron G.J. Van Heek. The reserve is covered with heather, flying ducks, oak and birch.

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