Donkey height (Spessart)

Northern donkey height (mountains in the background) from the top Kahlgrund seen from

The Eselshöhe is a wooded ridge in the center of the Spessart in the Aschaffenburg district in Bavaria . It extends from the slopes west of Wiesen to north of Wintersbach . The highest point is the Schindershöh at 522  m above sea level. NHN north of Heinrichsthal , there is a telecommunications tower .

Surname

The name Eselshöhe comes from a time when salt was brought over the ridge by donkey caravans on the donkey path in the Middle Ages . In some areas of the ridge, the name Eselshöhe has been completely lost. In the northern part the name Englishman is mistakenly used.

geography

The Eselshöhe extends north-south on the Spessart main ridge. The state road 2305 ( Spessart-Höhenstraße ) near the village of Wiesen can be seen as the northernmost point . The ridge stretches along the places Heinrichsthal, Jakobsthal , Heigenbrücken , Rothenbuch , Weibersbrunn , Mespelbrunn , Heimbuchenthal to Wintersbach, where it is bordered by the valley of the Dammbach .

Summit on the main ridge

The peaks on the main ridge are (sorted by height):

Schindershöh (522 m) Spindelberg (520 m) Ruhberg (517 m) Kreuzberg (507 m) Steigkoppe (502 m) Hochkopf (495 m) Kufenberg (485 m) Seeberg (485 m) Steinberg (483 m)

Weißensteiner Höhe (482 m) Stuff plate (478 m) Hirschkopf (475 m) Calibration height (472 m) Bösbornkopf (471 m) Miesberg (470 m) Schwarzkopf (460 m) Efflingsberg (447 m) Hetzberg (434 m) Falkenberg (444 m)

Web links

Commons : Donkey Height  - collection of images, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
2. ↑ Brief description of the Kingdom of Bavaria according to the latest regulations by Karl Friedrich Hohn