Iron Hand (Taunushauptkamm)
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 View from northwest to Taunusstein. The horizon is the Taunus main ridge, the Iron Hand is the depression just below the center of the picture. |
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| Compass direction | north | south | |
| Pass height | 423 m above sea level NHN | ||
| state | Hesse | ||
| Watershed | Aar | Kesselbach | |
| Valley locations | Taunusstein | Wiesbaden | |
| expansion | Pass road, railway line | ||
| Mountains | Taunus | ||
| particularities | Eiserne Hand station at the top of the pass | ||
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '27 " N , 8 ° 10' 6" E | ||
The Iron Hand is a mountain pass on the Taunus main ridge .
With a pass height of 423 m above sea level. NHN , the Iron Hand represents the lowest crossing over the wooded Taunus between Schlangenbad ( B 260 ) and Niedernhausen ( A 3 ) and thus marks a traffic route between the city center of Wiesbaden and the upper Aartal . Here the historic Eisenstrasse crosses the mountain ridge between Michelbacher Hütte and Wiesbaden.
The crossing is used today by the federal highway 54 and the disused Aartalbahn , which served the Eiserne Hand station ( 420 m above sea level ) at the apex of the line . The station building was rebuilt after a fire in 2004, and since 2007 the restaurant Waldgeist zur Eisernen Hand has been located there . The building is on the north side and therefore belongs to Taunusstein in the Rheingau-Taunus district .
The Iron Hand is the starting point for a well-developed network of hiking trails in the Rhine-Taunus Nature Park ; among other things, the Rheinhöhenweg runs along the ridge line and thus over this pass.
Web links
- Waldgeist (building use & leisure tips)
- Iron Hand, Rheingau-Taunus District. Historical local dictionary for Hessen. In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Annals of the Association for Nassau antiquity and historical research, Volume 30, 1899, page 123