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| height | 298 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Büdingen , Wetteraukreis , Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | Büdinger forest | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 15 '23 " N , 9 ° 8' 8" E | |
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The Große Reffenkopf is a completely wooded, 298 m high mountain southeast of Büdingen in the Hessian Wetteraukreis .
location
The mountain is located in the south of the Büdingen district , 2 km east of Vonhausen (district of Büdingen) and 1.5 km north of Hain-Gründau (district of the community of Gründau , in the Main-Kinzig district ). The border between Wetteraukreis and Main-Kinzig-Kreis runs between the mountain and the village of Hain-Gründau.
The mountain is located on the eastern edge of the Wetterau in the west of the Büdinger Wald natural area ( main unit 143), a forest area that largely still exists within its historical limits, which since the Middle Ages for around 500 years the counts and later princes of Isenburg and Büdingen as an imperial fiefdom of the old German Empire held.
traffic
A western branch of the Großer Reffenkopf, which represents the watershed between Seemenbach and Gründau , is crossed under the Büdinger Tunnel , which was built between 1868 and 1870 , one of two tunnels on the Gießen – Gelnhausen railway line (“Lahn-Kinzig-Bahn”).
The federal highway 457 runs in a north-south direction past the mountain west, as does the Büdingen– Gelnhausen section of the Lahn-Kinzig railway.
The Altstraße Via Regia , known as Hohe Straße from the 14th century , ran through the Büdinger Wald in the section from Frankfurt to Fulda and was called Reffenstraße or Reffenweg there, probably because it was the first hill to meet and at the Große Reffenkopf Hanging into the Büdinger Forest.
Mining
At least since 1610 and with interruptions until the 19th century, numerous copper mines were operated on the southern and western flanks of the mountain, see: Mining near Hain-Gründau .