Corner head
| Corner head | ||
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 The corner head (center), photographed from Deidesheim |
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| height | 516 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Germany | |
| Mountains | Haardt | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 24 '57 " N , 8 ° 8' 17" E | |
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| rock | Rocks of the lower and middle red sandstone | |
| Age of the rock | 251 to 243 million years | |
| particularities | Observation tower (25 m) | |
The Eckkopf is a 516 m high mountain in the Palatinate Forest ( Rhineland-Palatinate ). On its back there is an observation tower , the 25 m high corner head tower , next to it a restaurant.
geography
location
The Eckkopfgipfel rises on the forest boundary of the small Palatinate town of Deidesheim and about 3 km west-north-west of its residential development in the Haardt , as the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest is called. A few meters north of the summit, the forest area of the small town of Wachenheim begins .
Natural allocation
The corner head belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area, which is classified as a 3rd order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its subsequent publications . According to the internal structure of the natural area , it belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest and the Haardt mountain range, which separates the Palatinate Forest from the Upper Rhine Plain .
In the hierarchy of natural spaces, the corner head is thus in the following nesting:
- Greater region 1st order: Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
- Greater region 2nd order: Palatinate-Saarland layer level land
- Greater region 3rd order: Palatinate Forest
- 4th order region (main unit): Middle Palatinate Forest
- 5th order region: Haardt
Waters
Several small bodies of water arise on the slopes of the Eckkopf within a radius of a few hundred meters: in the east the 4 km long Moosbach , also a brook from the Sensental , which reaches the plain in the northern area of Deidesheim and flows off over the Alte Weinbach ; in the south the almost 8 km long Weinbach , which initially flows south parallel to the Moosbach through Deidesheim, before flowing into the Marlach from the left ; in the northwest close to each other the Eckkopfquelle and the origin of a short right tributary of the almost 10 km long Wachenheimer Bach .
history
On February 27, 1982, the then Federal President Karl Carstens visited the Eckkopf as part of his nationwide hikes; he was accompanied by the then Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, Bernhard Vogel , and around 1,500 hikers. The hike led from Limburg Abbey ( Bad Dürkheim ) over the Eckkopf and Heidenlöcher to the historic town hall in Deidesheim.
tourism
The Eckkopf can be reached via a road through the Sensental from Deidesheim and through the Margarethental from Forst an der Weinstrasse , and also via hiking trails that the Palatinate Forest Association has marked with markings. The corner head tower enables a wide all-round view, especially a view over the Rhine plain. The neighboring restaurant is open most weekends and some public holidays. It is managed by various associations of the Deidesheim community that work on a voluntary basis. The dates are raffled among the associations by the association. Each association has to pay a fee for the management right, which is used by the association for the maintenance of the restaurant.
Web links
- Tourist Service Deidesheim: Circular hiking trail : Deidesheim– Michaelskapelle - Heidenlöcher - Eckkopf –Rotsteig – Deidesheim
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Height and position of the corner head on the map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Adalbert Pemöller: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 160 Landau i. d. Palatinate. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB).
- ↑ Helmut Beeger u. a .: The landscapes of Rheinhessen-Pfalz - naming and spatial delimitation. In: Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, Issue 2, Trier 1989, pp. 327–359.
- ↑ GeoExplorer of the Rhineland-Palatinate Water Management Authority ( information )
- ↑ Stefan Gillich: Stefan Gillich - memories . 2nd Edition. Englram Partner, Haßloch 2008, ISBN 978-3-926775-53-5 , p. 120 .