Thistle lawn

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The westernmost part of the Hessian land ridge at the transition to the Vogelsberg immediately north of Schlüchtern in the Hessian Main-Kinzig district is called thistle lawn . Here lies the lowest pass over the Rhine-Weser watershed between the Vogelsberg and the Rhön in the east, at almost 370 m above sea level .

The federal highway 66 with the service area Distelrasen Nord runs over the Distelrasen ; the railway passes under it by means of the Schlüchtern tunnel .

On April 25, 2011, a second tunnel tube, the New Schlüchtern Tunnel, was put into operation. The old tube was then extensively renovated. Since mid-2014, each tube has served one direction of travel.

literature

  • Joseph Schneider. Buchonia: A magazine for patriotic history, antiquity, geography, statistics and topography , Volume 4, p.97f

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ Water map service of the Hessian Ministry for the Environment, Climate Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protection ( information )

Coordinates: 50 ° 23 ′ 4.9 ″  N , 9 ° 31 ′ 52.7 ″  E