Seulingswald
| Seulingswald | |
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 View from Petersberg over the houses of Sorga in the Solz valley to the northeast to the Toten Mann , the highest mountain in the Seulingswald |
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| Highest peak | Dead man ( 480.3 m above sea level ) |
| location | in the district of Hersfeld-Rotenburg and Wartburgkreis ; Hesse and Thuringia ( Germany ) |
| Mountains |
Fulda-Werra-Bergland in the East Hessian highlands |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 ' N , 9 ° 50' E |
The Seulingswald (also called Sillingswald ) is one to 480.3 m above sea level. NHN high low mountain range of the Fulda-Werra-Bergland in the East Hessian Bergland in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district of Hesse ; Small foothills extend into the Wartburg district in Thuringia . It is a sandstone mountain range and one of the largest contiguous forest areas in Hesse.
geography
location
The Seulingswald is located between the villages of Ronshausen in the north and Wildeck in the northeast (both in Hesse), Großensee and Dankmarshausen in the east-northeast (both in Thuringia), Heringen in the east, Friedewald in the south, Bad Hersfeld in the southwest, Ludwigsau in the west and Bebra in the Northwest (all in Hessen).
In the north, on the other side of the Ulfe valley, the Richelsdorf mountains join. In the east the small mountains border on the Werra . Small-scale east-north-east foothills of the landscape drop across the Hessian Kleinensee at the Thuringian Großensee towards the Suhl . In the south, at the height of Friedewald, the Fulda and Werra come closest to each other before their confluence. This marks the southern border of the Seulingswald, which merges into the Kuppenrhön here . In the west the Knüllgebirge joins on the other side of the Fulda .
Natural allocation
The Seulingswald forms the natural area Seulingswald (357.20) in the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), in the main unit Fulda-Werra-Bergland (357) and in the subunit Solztrotten- and Seulingswald (357 ). Its east-north-east foothills fall in the main unit of Salzungen Werrabergland (359) and in the subunit of Salzungen-Herleshausen Werratal (359.1) into the natural area of Berka basin (359.12).
mountains
The mountains of the Seulingswald include - sorted by height in meters (m) above mean sea level (NHN):
- Monte Kali (530 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
Mountains and Elevations:
- Dead man (480.3 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Gnishecke (470.8 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Stangenrück (465.7 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Schwalbenkopf (454.7 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Siebertsberg (449.1 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Hornungskuppe (444.1 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg / Wartburgkreis district
- Hermesberg (444.7 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg / Wartburgkreis district
- Kornberg (435.1 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Roteberg (434.4 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Plessenberg (402 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Wackenbühl (419.0 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Kimmenberg (416.4 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Kirchenkopf (398.6 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Waltersberg (388 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Schwarzenberg (381.8 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Großer Steinkopf (375.4 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Höneberg (354.7 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Heiligenberg (Seulingswald) (317.3 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg / Wartburgkreis district
- High mountain (314.7 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Burbachsrück (340.5 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Gellenberg (340.4 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Wolfberg (334.7 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Hagelsberg (326.9 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Auf'm Berg (324.6 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Spießberg (300.5 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Obersberg (299.6 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
- Lerchenberg (Seulingswald) (287.5 m), Wartburg district
- Schottenberg (271.1 m), Hersfeld-Rotenburg district
Protected areas
In the middle part up to the west-northwest of Seulingswaldes the spreading conservation area Seulingswald ( CDDA 30.2656 -No 378,688th;; recognized in 1979 square kilometers large) from. The fauna-flora-habitat area Seulingswald (FFH no. 378688; 23.2315 km²) is located in large parts of the forest landscape . Near the Ulfe is the 31 ha large forest reserve Goldbachs- and Ziebachsrück .
history
On September 27, 1944 , the extremely loss-making air battle between the German and American air forces, known as the Kassel Mission , took place over the Seulingswald .
Traffic and walking
The Seulingswald is crossed by the federal motorway 4 in a north-east-south-west direction . At its junction in Bad Hersfeld , this is crossed by the federal highway 27 running west of the landscape towards the north to Bebra . There, the north of Seulingswaldes branches from the B 27 east through Ronshausen after Hönebach on the Thuringian border leading country road 3251 off. The European long-distance hiking trail E6 runs partly parallel to the motorway between Hönebach and Friedewald .
References and comments
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Werner Röll: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 126 Fulda. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB)
- ↑ List created with DVD Hessen 3D ( ISBN 978-3-935603-73-7 ) and Thuringia 3D ( ISBN 978-3-935603-79-9 )
- ↑ a b The Dead Man ( 480.3 m ) is the highest natural mountain in the Seulingswald and is dominated by the Monte Kali waste dump (approx. 530 m ) on the eastern edge of the landscape .
- ↑ Profile of the total reserve Goldbach and Ziebachsrück , on naturwaelder.de