Gickelsburg
| Gickelsburg | ||
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 View from Friedrichsdorf to Gickelsburg (left) and Hesselberg (right) |
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| height | 470.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Friedrichsdorf ; Hochtaunuskreis , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 0.49 km | |
| Notch height | 18 m | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 16'7 " N , 8 ° 35'20" E | |
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| particularities | Ringwall Gickelsburg | |
The Gickelsburg im Taunus is 470.9 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the core town of Friedrichsdorf in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis . The Gickelsburg ring wall is located on the summit region .
geography
location
The Gickelsburg rises in the Taunus Nature Park . Its summit is 4 km west-north-west of the core town of Friedrichsdorf , 3 km north of Dornholzhausen and 3.3 km north-west of Kirdorf , two districts of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe . While the border between the two cities runs over the southwest flank of the elevation, their summit region lies in the urban area of Friedrichsdorf. To the north is the Wehrheimer Saalburgsiedlung with the Saalburg train station and the Lochmühle amusement park .
The Erlenbach flows north past the Gickelsburg . East, the rising Hesselnberg ( 461 m ) and west-northwest of the Merry man head ( 480.6 m ); on the other side of the last-mentioned mountain on the federal highway 456 lies the Saalburg .
Natural allocation
The Gickelsburg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit Hoher Taunus (301) to the subunit Winterstein-Taunuskamm (301.4), which is connected to the subunit Feldberg-Taunuskamm (301.3) in the south-west . To the south to southeast the landscape falls into the subunit Homburger Vortaunus (300.3), which is part of the main unit Vortaunus (300). To the northwest it leads over into the subunit Usinger Basin (302.5), which belongs to the main unit Eastern Hintertaunus (302).
Protected areas
On the common southern flank of Gickelsburg and Hesselberg lies the nature reserve Kirdorfer Feld near Bad Homburg ( CDDA no. 164099; designated 1986; 55.33 hectares in size). It is from the same conservation area surrounded (CDDA No. 378,499; 79,15 ha.; 1996). Both are located in the fauna-flora-habitat area of the same name (FFH no. 5717-301; 1.3448 km² ).
Ringwall Gickelsburg
On the Gickelsburg was around 500 BC. . BC a Celtic hillfort settlement from the Hallstatt period - as a rampart Gickelsburg known. Your area is designated as a ground monument according to the Hessian Monument Protection Act. Investigations and targeted collection of finds are subject to approval, and accidental finds are reported to the monument authorities.
Water pipe
With the support of Landgrave Friedrich V of Hessen-Homburg , a wooden water pipe was put into operation on November 27, 1827 from the Fahrborn spring, which lies on the south-western slope of the Gickelsburg, to supply Dillingen , which later fell into disrepair.