Gray head (Holzhausen)
| Gray head | ||
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 Gray head from the direction of Holzhausen an der Haide |
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| height | 543.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Laufenselden ; Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and Rhein-Lahn-Kreis ; Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 5.3 km → Mappershainer head | |
| Notch height | 40 m ↓ | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 12 ′ 42 " N , 7 ° 56 ′ 56" E | |
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| particularities | - Holzhausen castle - Heidenrod wind farm |
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The gray head near Laufenselden in the Hessian Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis with north-western parts of the mountains in the Rhineland-Palatinate Rhein-Lahn-Kreis is 543.4 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the German low mountain range Taunus . After the Mappershainer head ( 548 m ) it is the second highest point in the western Hintertaunus .
geography
location
The gray head rises in the western Hintertaunus and near the south-southeast edge of the Einrich . At the same time, it is located in the northern part of the historical landscape of Kemeler Heide , which extends on a ridge (the northern end of which extends slightly into the Einrich from the south-southeast). The Hessian mountain parts belong to the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park and the Rhineland-Palatinate to the Nassau Nature Park . The summit of the wooded mountain is located in Hessian territory about 3.3 km west of Laufenselden , 1.8 km northeast of Grebenroth and 2.2 km east-northeast of Martenroth , all of which belong to Heidenrod (Hesse), and 3 km (as the crow flies ) east-southeast of Holzhausen an der Haide (local community; Rhineland-Palatinate). It is located almost 150 m southeast of the state border, which curves around the summit region here.
Apart from the High Westerwald , the border between the two countries reaches its highest point on the north-western slope of the mountain at around 527 m . This is also the highest in the Rhineland-Palatinate part of the Taunus ( ⊙ ). It is located south of the Holzhausen Fort , on the border between the district of Laufenselden (Hesse) and the local community of Holzhausen an der Haide (Rhineland-Palatinate).
The gray head is part of the ridge that continues to the south , which forms the watershed between the Mühlbach and the Wisper in the west and the Dörsbach and the Aar and in the east. The Ackerbach rises on the eastern flank of the mountain and the Hasenbach on the northwest flank , both of which flow towards the Dörsbach. The Bärbach rises a little to the south, a tributary of the Mühlbach tributary, also known as the Gronauer Bach , Klausbach.
Natural allocation
The gray head belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit Westlicher Hintertaunus (304) to the sub-unit Westlicher Aartaunus (304.1). The subunit Zorner Plateau (304.5) is adjacent to the southwest. To the west the landscape leads into the natural area Dörsbach / Mühlbach-Wasserscheide (304.90), to the northwest into the natural area Lower Dörsbach-Tiefenbach area (304.91) and to the north into the natural area Central Katzenelnbogen plateau (304.92); all three belong to the subunit Katzenelnbogen plateau (304.9).
Holzhausen fort
The Holzhausen fort is located on the northern slope of the Grauer Kopf . The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes describes here, deviating from its very straight line over long stretches, a slight arc to the north in order to include the summit in its protection.
Heidenrod wind farm
On the wooded northwestern Kemeler Ridge , in the area between Graues Kopf (north) and Gesteinteheck (south), along the B 260, construction work began in February 2014 for the erection of 12 wind turbines (WEA) of the type GE2.5-120 from the manufacturer GE Wind Energy , with a maximum height of 199 m. Two of these wind turbines, one on the Grauer Kopf and the other about 500 m to the southwest, were built in the immediate vicinity of the Upper German-Raetian Limes .
As is usual with such wind energy projects in forest landscapes, larger forest areas were deforested for the 12 wind turbines with the use of wood harvesters and then cleared . Furthermore, the existing forest paths for the transport of the building materials and plant components were converted into construction roads , and the underground cables to the individual wind turbines were laid to the side of the construction roads .
In April 2013, a lawsuit brought by a municipal representative of the Heidenrod municipality to the Wiesbaden Administrative Court was intended to prevent the Heidenrod municipal council's decision to found Windenergiepark Heidenrod GmbH from being implemented. On May 8, 2013, the lawsuit was partially upheld and the municipality board was obliged to immediately, completely and truthfully answer a request from the plaintiff about the municipality's income from the operation of wind turbines.
Traffic and walking
About 550 m south of the summit of the Grauen Kopf runs the federal road 260 (sometimes also called Bäderstraße Taunus ), which near the Bärbachquelle a little further south over an approximately 510 m high point and further southeast of it, for example, at the stony tail ( 537.2 m) ) reached even higher positions. From this road branches off about 650 m (as the crow flies) southwest of the summit, the district road 687 leading to Grebenroth . Immediately at this junction is a hikers ' parking lot, from where the mountain can be hiked on forest paths and paths. From the B 260, near Bärbachquelle and Gesteinteheck, the Kohlstrasse (forest path) branches off to the north-northwest and runs east past the summit, where it joins the Hessenstrasse (forest path) north of the Grauer Kopf . The latter runs over the north-western slope of the mountain and has linked the Hessian areas on the Middle Rhine with the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel since the late Middle Ages .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Dominance and prominence according to TK 25 - the dominance and prominence in the Taunus according to highrisepages.de are obviously wrong here, because the Mappershainer's head is suppressed
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Map ( Taunus & Gießen-Koblenzer Lahntal ) and legend ( Taunus ) (Attention: web links without return!) Environmental Atlas Hessen of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology: The natural areas of Hesse and their main units
- ↑ Heinrich Müller-Miny, Martin Bürgener: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 138 Koblenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1971. → Online map (PDF; 5.7 MB)
- ↑ Windenergiepark Heidenrod GmbH (official homepage)
- ↑ Heidenrod: Lawsuit against wind farm decision ( memento of the original from May 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Wiesbadener Kurier , on April 6, 2013
- ↑ VG Wiesbaden: Inquiries about the income from the operation of wind turbines must be answered immediately, completely and truthfully ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on jurablogs.com, June 11, 2013
