Feldberg (Hessian Rhön)

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Feldberg
Feldberg from the southwest

Feldberg from the southwest

height 815.2  m above sea level NHN
location District of Fulda
Mountains Rhön (High Rhön)
Coordinates 50 ° 28 '19 "  N , 9 ° 57' 3"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 28 '19 "  N , 9 ° 57' 3"  E
Feldberg (Hessian Rhön) (Hesse)
Feldberg (Hessian Rhön)

The Feldberg is 815.2  m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rhön in Hesse .

It is located around three kilometers northeast of Gersfeld in the Fulda district , near the border with Bavaria and is part of the Hessian Rhön Nature Park and the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . The closest localities are Obernhausen in the northwest and Sandberg on the southern foothills of the mountain. The Feldberg represents an elevation of the ridge that extends to the south-west and extends from the Wasserkuppe to the Heidelstein . The young Fulda flows past below its western slope. The B 284 runs in its section from Gersfeld to Wüstensachsen in an arc to the west and north of the Feldberg. In terms of tourism, the Guckaisee extra tour , a hiking trail run by the Rhön Club , leads directly south of the summit over the Feldberg. The area is used for forestry and partly also as grassland .

On its south side is located on 684  m the castle ruins Schneeberg .

See also

source

Hessian State Office for Soil Management and Geoinformation: Topographical Leisure Map 1: 50,000 Rhön North

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Fritz Luckhard : The Lords of Schneeberg in Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter , Verlag Parzeller, Fulda, 1956, pp. 45-47