Platte (Schneeberg)

plate
	summit
height	885 m
location	Bavaria , Germany
Mountains	Fichtel Mountains
Coordinates	50 ° 1 '7 " N , 11 ° 53' 26" E Coordinates: 50 ° 1 '7 " N , 11 ° 53' 26" E
rock	granite

The Platte is a 885 m high mountain in the Bavarian High Fichtel Mountains .

Location and surroundings

The plate is located in the southern Schneeberg massif in the Upper Franconian district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains on the Rhine-Elbe watershed . Nearby places are Fichtelberg in the west and Tröstau in the east. The Bavarian state owns the land.

nature

Sea of blocks on the plateau summit

The summit area consists of a huge block pile made of angular granite slabs, rare mosses and lichens colonize the rock debris. The area is designated as a nature reserve with 4.1 hectares . Below the summit the mountain is covered with coniferous forest. Forest management is carried out by the Bavarian State Forests, Fichtelberg Forestry Company.

Surname

The slab was first mentioned in a document in 1393 as "die plancken" in a description of the rain of the forest, which at that time belonged to the burgrave of Nuremberg. The mountain got its name because of the plate-like summit area.

Geotope

The sea of blocks at the summit is designated as a valuable geotope by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (geotope number: 479R025).

tourism

The Höhenweg and the Fränkische Gebirgsweg lead from the Silberhaus (part of the municipality of Tröstau on the federal road 303 - Fichtelgebirgsstraße / E48) to the summit. From the highest point with a wooden cross there are excellent views of the Wunsiedler basin with the Leupoldsdorfer Seenplatte in the foreground, southeast to the Hohen Matze , the Kosseine , the Steinwald , north to the Waldstein and the Kornberg .

View from the summit of the Platte to the Blockmeer and the Sechsämterland

literature

Dietmar Herrmann, Helmut Süssmann: Fichtel Mountains, Bavarian Vogtland, Steinwald, Bayreuther Land. Lexicon . Ackermannverlag, Hof (Saale) 2000, ISBN 3-929364-18-2 .
Rudolf Thiem: The Schneeberg - highest mountain in the Fichtelgebirge . Ed .: Fichtelgebirgsverein eV (= series of publications Das Fichtelgebirge . Issue 13). Wunsiedel 2006.

Web links

Commons : Platte (Fichtelgebirge) - collection of images, videos and audio files

On the plate in the Schneeberg massif

Individual evidence

↑ Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy , State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Bavaria : Digital Topographical Map 1:50 000, BayernViewer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 18, 2011 @1@ 2

↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotop Blockmeer at the summit of Platte WNW von Tröstau (accessed on October 15, 2017).

[1] Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy , State Office for Surveying and Geoinformation Bavaria : Digital Topographical Map 1:50 000, BayernViewer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 18, 2011 @1@ 2

[Geotop-2] Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotop Blockmeer at the summit of Platte WNW von Tröstau (accessed on October 15, 2017).