Diesburg
| Diesburg | ||
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 Diesburg from the west |
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| height | 711.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Wohlmuthausen ; District of Schmalkalden-Meiningen , Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Front Rhön | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 35 '18 " N , 10 ° 12' 54" E | |
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The Diesburg is 711.8 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Rhön . It is located in the Thuringian district of Schmalkalden-Meiningen ( Germany ) and belongs to the Hohe Geba mountain range .
geography
location
The Diesburg is located in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve between Gerthausen in the southwest, Wohlmuthausen in the south and Helmershausen in the southeast, which belong to the municipality of Rhönblick , and between the municipalities of Aschenhausen in the northwest and Oberkatz in the northeast; 14.4 km east-southeast is Meiningen, the district town of the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district. The Hörbach rises on the southern slope of the neighboring Hohen Löhr ( 638.1 m ) and flows into the Herpf flowing south of the Diesburg , and the Katza (Katz, Katzbach) runs past it to the north .
Natural allocation
The Diesburg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), in the main unit Vorder- und Kuppenrhön (353) and in the subunit Kuppenrhön (353.2) to the natural area Auersberger Kuppenrhön (353.24).
Protected areas
The Thuringian Rhön landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 20897; designated 1989; 631.8923 km² in size) and parts of the Geba-Tuften-Diesburg fauna-flora-habitat area (FFH no. 5427-301; 17 , 16 km²) and the Thuringian Rhön bird sanctuary (VSG No. 5326-401; 199.49 km²).
Others
The Diesburg is of volcanic origin and has a basalt cone . On the summit are the remains of a stone Celtic rampart from the Latène period (around the 3rd century BC).
Various hiking trails lead across the Diesburg:
- the Rhön-Rennsteig hiking trail , which connects the Diesburg with Aschenhausen and the Gebaberg.
- the Milseburgweg (main hiking trail HWO3)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 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)
- ↑ Walter Höhn: The Celts in the Rhön. From Milseburg to Keltendorf , Imhof Verlag, Petersberg 2006