Büchelberger ridge

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View from the air from the northwest. On the right is the Kochertal , on the left under the wing you can see one of the Hammerschmiedeseen through which the Bühler flows.

The Büchelberger Grat is a narrow mountain ridge in northeastern Baden-Württemberg . It appears as a widely conspicuous "bulge" on the northern edge of the Kocher Valley in the area of ​​the municipality of Abtsgmünd , Ostalbkreis . Its higher northwest end is called Höfenberg .

General

The Büchelberger Grat is located within the natural area of ​​the Swabian-Franconian Forest Mountains in the southeast of the Limpurger Mountains in the sub-area of ​​the Sulzbach Forest . It is 4 km long and up to 300 m wide. It extends from north-west to south-east, from Höfenberg at 555.3  m above sea level. NN in the northwest it slowly sinks to about 520  m above sea level. NN in the southeast. On its south-western long side, it falls steeply in some places in an initially pronounced step edge from the agriculturally used plateau 70 to 80 meters in altitude to the Kocher.

In some places the ridge offers a wide view over the Kocher valley to the north-eastern Albrand and the Ellwang Mountains .

Geological forms Black Jurassic the top layer of Büchel Berger ridge, while the significantly lower ambient to Stubensandstein the Keuper not surmounted. Geologically and geographically, it resembles the extensive mountain ranges of Frickenhofer Höhe and Welzheimer Wald , which are adjacent to the west, as well as the more extensive plateau around Neuler on the other side of the lower or the single mountain of Abtsgmünder Hornberg on the other side of the lowest Blinden Rot .

Watershed

To the south, the Kocher passes the ridge on its section from Abtsgmünd to Untergröningen.Near its southeastern tip , the Bühler flows north-northwest in Berrothsbrunnen and flows into the Kocher about 31 km as the crow flies from here on the Haller level . The uppermost and most striking section of the watershed between Kocher and Bühler runs on the Büchelberger Grat and continues in roughly the same direction after the Höfenberg through the more northerly western branch of the Limpurger Mountains to the Einkorn area .

Traffic routes

Along the mostly unforested and agriculturally used plateau, a small cul-de-sac connects the Hohenhöfen farm in the far northwest with the hamlet of Vorderbüchelberg in the southeast, and then downhill further east to reach more busy roads in the Kochertal. A three-kilometer climb that rises about 50 m and then descends 150 m between the hamlet of Lutstrut not far from the Bühler origin in the north and Reichertshofen am Kocher in the south crosses the ridge roughly in the middle.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hansjörg Dongus : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 171 Göppingen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1961. →  Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  2. ↑ Geology according to: Mapserver of the State Office for Geology, Raw Materials and Mining (LGRB) ( notes )

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Coordinates: 48 ° 56 '  N , 9 ° 57'  E