Snow Eifel
The Schnee Eifel is a maximum of 699.1 m above sea level. NHN high and heavily forested low mountain range of the West Eifel in the German-Belgian border area.
Name origin
At the time of the Prussians in the 19th century, the name Schnee-Eifel may have been derived from the Schneifel ridge , which, however, linguistically has nothing to do with "snow" or "Eifel", but regionally means something like aisle .
Geographical location
In terms of nature, the Schnee-Eifel encompasses the area of the southern part of the Hohes Venn-Eifel Nature Park . In the north, the Kyll forms the border with the northern Eifel , which begins with the Zitterwald near Hallschlag and Kronenburg ; in the east the Kyll is the border river to the Hocheifel . In the south, the Schneeeifel extends to the southern Eifel as far as Pronsfeld in the Prümer Land . It reaches its greatest height on the Schneifel mountain range with 699.1 m ( ⊙ ) near the Black Man ( 697.8 m ).
The term Schneifel is often used in publications for the entire Schnee Eifel. However, the area is not congruent. The actual Schneifel is the uninhabited central mountain range in the Schnee Eifel; its area goes beyond the narrow definition of the Schneifel and also includes the southern headwaters of the Kyll and its upper reaches as a landscape area, as well as the adjacent Prüm Forest to the southeast of the main ridge .
The largest town in the Schnee Eifel is Prüm on the river of the same name. Well-known ski areas are the Black Man and the Wolfsschlucht . They are located about 15 km northwest and 5 km north of Prüm.
geology
The Eifel largely belongs to the system of the Rhenish Slate Mountains . The Schnee-Eifel and especially the Schneifel, its highest area, represent a rump mountain range, the remainder of a Variscan high mountain range unfolded in the Devonian . After a long period of rest with strong erosion , it was only recently raised in geological terms (in the Quaternary ). Scattered old are still Verebnungsflächen seen hardly set time. , Protruding from them, especially in the northern part of the " Prüm country ", individual distinctive ridges of harder rock up, like that of Emsquarzit existing back the Schneifel.
The elongated mountain ridge of the Schnee-Eifel towers above the poorly structured old plateau by about 100 m and proves the resistance of the local quartz rock to the forces of weathering. It is characterized by its length of 15 km with an average width of only 2 km. It stretches with only a few meters difference in altitude from Brandscheid to Ormont near Stadtkyll , where it ends with the Steinberg ( 657.8 m ).
Because of its remote location, the Schnee-Eifel is a very pristine landscape, in whose distribution area rare plants and animals are native, including the European wildcat and, for some years now, the lynx .
In the village of Winterspelt , the novel of the same name by Alfred Andersch takes place , which deals with the last months of the Second World War .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
