French Head (Harz)

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French head
height 562  m above sea level NHN
location near Lonau ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Resin ( middle resin )
Notch height 5 m
Coordinates 51 ° 42 '8 "  N , 10 ° 22' 14"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '8 "  N , 10 ° 22' 14"  E
Franzosenkopf (Harz) (Lower Saxony)
French Head (Harz)
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The Franzosenkopf is 562  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Harz . It is located near Lonau in the non-parish Harz region of the Göttingen district in Lower Saxony .

geography

location

The French head rises in the Middle Harz and in the Harz National Park . Its summit is 1.5 km northeast of Lonau . To the north, the landscape leads over to the Braakberg ( 645.5  m ) with a low notch height . The Kleine Lonau flows around the mountain in the Mariental to the east and south . To the west it is separated from the Kargeskopf ( 585  m ) by the Hackenstieltal .

Natural allocation

The French head belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Upper Harz (380) and in the subunit Southern Upper Harz (380.8) to the natural area Sieberbergland (380.82).

Protected areas and forest cover

Parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Harz National Park (Lower Saxony) (FFH no. 4129-302; 157.7  km² ) and the Harz National Park bird sanctuary (VSG no. 4229-402; 155.59 ) are located on the Franzosenkopf km²). The mountain is mostly overgrown with beeches, but also partly with spruce.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)