Emmet (Upland)

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Emmet
height 742.5  m above sea level NHN
location near Usseln ; District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , North Hesse ( Germany )
Mountains Rothaar Mountains
Dominance 0.6 km →  Hohe Pön
Notch height 36 m ↓  to the Hohen Pön
Coordinates 51 ° 16 '7 "  N , 8 ° 38' 33"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '7 "  N , 8 ° 38' 33"  E
Emmet (Upland) (Hesse)
Emmet (Upland)
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The Emmet near Usseln is 742.5  m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in North Hesse ( Germany ).

geography

location

The Emmet lies in the northeast part of the Rothaargebirge at the interface of the mountain regions Upland and Sauerland . Its summit rises around 2 km southwest of Usseln , 1.3 km south-south-east of its Wakenfeld location and around 600 m north of the border with North Rhine-Westphalia . To the west past the mountain runs roughly in a south-north direction of the upstream area of ​​the Aarbach near the source , to the east past in the same direction of flow one of the nearby Diemel .

Natural allocation

The Emmet belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Winterberger Hochland (333.5) to the natural area Langenberg (333.58). The landscape falls to the north and east into the Inner Upland (333.90) natural area , which is part of the Upland subunit (333.9).

Tourism and history

In winter there are cross-country ski trails and a ski lift around the Emmet.

On January 18, 2007, Hurricane Kyrill overturned all of the trees, mostly spruce, on their once densely wooded top; most of the wood was processed. Since then, a good view from the summit has been possible.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)