Dreistelzberg
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 View of the ascent from Wernarz in the northwest |
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| height | 660.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Bad Brückenau ; Bad Kissingen district , Lower Franconia , Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Rhön | |
| Dominance | 9.1 km → Farnsberg | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 16 '36 " N , 9 ° 46' 7" E | |
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| particularities | Dreistelzberg observation tower | |
The Dreistelzberg (also called Dreistelzkopf or just Dreistelz ) is 660.4 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rhön . It is the highest mountain of the Brückenau Kuppenrhön and is located near Bad Brückenau in the Bavarian district of Bad Kissingen .
The mountain is not one of the highest Rhön peaks, but thanks to its somewhat isolated location on the southwestern edge of the mountains, it is a striking mountain figure that rises significantly above its surroundings. The Dreistelzberg observation tower stands on top of it .
geography
location
The Dreistelzberg rises in the transition area of the Rhön to the southwest lying Spessart - within the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and in the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park . Its summit is 4.1 km south-south-west of the core town of Bad Brückenau and 0.8 km west-south-west of Dreistelz , 1.2 km north-north-west of Modlos and 1.3 km north-north-east of Haghof , three parts of the municipality of Oberleichtersbach . Large parts of the mountain and its summit belong to the Dreistelzer Forest , the smallest community-free area in the Bad Kissingen district.
To the north to west, the landscape of the Dreistelzberg falls into the valley of the Sinn , which is fed to the west by the Kretzengraben, which swells on the mountain. To the south-east it falls over the upstream Apfelberg (approx. 425 m ) into that of the Schondra , into which the Detterbach , which rises south-south-west of the mountain, flows; the latter is fed by the apple stream that swells on the southern flank of the mountain .
On the Dreistelzberg are parts of the landscape protection area Bayerische Rhön ( CDDA -Nr. 396113; 959.8027 km² ).
Natural allocation
The Dreistelzberg 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 Brückenauer Kuppenrhön (353.20). To the east and south the landscape falls into the Adelsberger Wald (140.101) part of the Schondra-Thulba-Südrhön natural area (140.10), which belongs to the subunit Hammelburger Südrhön (140.1), and to the southwest into the Gemünden-Zeitlofser Wald subunit (140.0), both of which in the main unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (14) belong to the main unit Südrhön (140).
Geotope
The Dreistelz volcanic cone has been designated as a valuable geotope by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (geotope number: 672R002).
Dreistelzberg observation tower
On the western part of the Dreistelzberg summit region, which can be reached via forest paths, there was already a wooden observation tower in the 19th century, which was "renewed" in 1878. It was 12 m high and had 49 steps.
Today's Dreistelzberg observation tower, which was built as an architecturally interesting and extremely airy, but nevertheless very stable steel construction, dates from 1895. It consists of five approximately 3 m high cuboids with a square cross section of 4 m side length. The 16.2 m high tower has a square platform at a height of about 9 m and a 15.2 m high round viewing platform with a diameter of 4.3 m. In 1998 the tower was added to the “list of monuments” and in 2002 it was completely renovated. For this purpose, the tower was dismantled and the individual parts were transported to a steel construction workshop, where they were cleaned and hot-dip galvanized. It was then reassembled and set up at the old tower location. It was reopened in 2003.
The tower offers an almost all-round view: on a clear day, the view extends to the west as far as the Großer Feldberg im Taunus . In the southwest you can see the Spessart . In the south the view extends to the heights of the Steigerwald . To the east, the view of the Kreuzberg and the Black Mountains (both belonging to the Rhön) is blocked by trees, whereas to the northeast you have a view of the Dammersfeldkuppe and the deep view of Bad Brückenau. In the north the view extends to the Knüll , in the northwest you can clearly see the Vogelsberg behind the Hessian ridge .
gallery
View from the east ( Platzer Kuppe ; 736.8 m )
View of the mountain from the southwest near Roßbach
View from the south
legend
According to legend, the Dreistelzberg got its name from "the three proud", three haughty virgins whose castle was cursed by a rejected nocturnal pilgrim and sank into the depths of the mountain.
Web links
- Panorama from the Dreistelzberg tower (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Bavarian State Surveying Office: Topographic Map 1: 50,000, 1999 edition
- ↑ Dreistelzberg or Dreistelzkopf , depending on the scale, the name Dreistelzberg or Dreistelzkopf is recorded in the BayernAtlas at geoportal.bayern.de
- ↑ a b c d e The Dreistelz ... cornerstone in the southwest of the Rhön , on rhoenline.de
- ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 140 Schweinfurt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1968. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
- ↑ Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotop Vulkankegel Dreistelz WNW von Oberleichtersbach (accessed on October 11, 2017).
- ↑ a b c Photo of the construction drawing of the tower, on commons.wikimedia.org
- ^ Cursed Dreistelz Castle in: Ludwig Bechstein , Deutsches Sagenbuch . Leipzig 1853, reprint in Georg Olms Verlag 2003. ISBN 3-487-12501-3
