Dollberge

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The Dollberge , which are located in the northern Saarland and in particular in the Rhineland-Palatinate bordering this , are a southeastern and up to 707.4  m above sea level. NHN high part of the Black Forest high forest , which in turn is part of the Hunsrück .

geography

location

As a rather long mountain range running from southeast to northwest, the Dollberge in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park extend from Nonnweiler (Saarland) to Börfink (Rhineland-Palatinate). The southwestern tip of the Dollberge is in the northern Saarland near Nonnweiler; the larger northeast part of the ridge is then in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The Saar-Hunsrück-Steig leads through parts of the Dollberge .

Natural allocation

The Dollberge belong to the natural spatial main unit group Hunsrück (No. 24), the main unit Hoch- and Idarwald (242) and the subunit Black Forest high forest (242.0) to the natural area Dollberge and Herrsteiner Forst (242.02). The landscape falls to the southwest into the subunit Züscher Hochmulde (242.1), to the west into the natural area Malborner Hochwald (242.01), to the north the subunit Kempfelder Hochmulde (241.2), which belongs to the main unit Simmerner Mulde (241 ), and to the northeast into the subunit Idar Soon Gate (241.1). To the east it falls within the for subunit Idarvorberge belonging (194.0) natural area Leiseler-Hochwald precursor (194.03), and to the southeast in the subunit prim-Traun Valley (194.7); they belong to the main unit Prims-Nahe-Bergland ( Oberes Nahubgland ; 194).

mountains

The Dollberge's elevations include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NHN):

Waters

The Primstalsperre through which the Prims flows and into which the Allbach (Altbach) flows from the Friedrichskopf is located between the Dollberg Mountains and the Black Forest high forest . The Traunbach flows northeast past the Dollberge .

Ring wall of Otzenhausen

In the area of ​​the southwest foothills of the Dollberge between Nonnweiler and the Dollberg there is the ring wall of Otzenhausen , a Hunnenring (or Hünenburg ) or a Celtic fortress ( oppidum ).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  2. ^ Otmar Werle: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 148/149 Trier / Mettendorf. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1974. →  Online map (PDF; 4.5 MB)

Web links

  • Dollberg , detailed map of the Dollberg around the Dollberg