Chicken drumstick
| Chicken drumstick | ||
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 Chicken drumstick from the south, winter shot |
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| height | 369.3 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Rohnstadt ; District of Limburg-Weilburg Hessen , ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 24 ′ 6 ″ N , 8 ° 21 ′ 12 ″ E | |
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The Hühnerküppel is 369.3 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the Taunus low mountain range . It is located near Rohnstadt in the Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg .
geography
location
The chicken trumpet rises in the eastern Hintertaunus within the Taunus Nature Park . The summit of the mountain in the district of Rohnstadt is 0.7 km southwest of Rohnstadt, 1.3 km east-northeast of Laubuseschbach and 1.6 km west-northwest of Langenbach , three districts of Weilmünster . The Bleidenbach (Eschbach) flows north past the mountain , and the Langenbach rises to the south ; both are tributaries of the Weil, which runs approximately to the east of the mountain .
Natural allocation
The chicken trumpet belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30), in the main unit Eastern Hintertaunus (302) to the natural area Weilburger Hintertaunus (302.1).
history
The earlier name was Hünerküppel , probably originally named after " Hünen ". According to onomastics, Hün originally means “(young) bear”, “young animal”, only later in analogy to the meaning as a giant (old north. Húnn , norw. Dialect hún ). The mountain bears traces of Celtic fortifications and settlement; there are also finds of iron slag .
Historic and hiking trails
The historic Hessenstrasse (old Keltenstrasse) runs over the southeast slope of the Hühnerküppels, which coincides with the Rennstrasse ; the historic Hünerstrasse also runs along the mountain; today they serve as forest and hiking trails.
From the mountain there is a good all-round view of the Taunus: In the eastern Hintertaunus, the view falls on the mountain villages of Rohnstadt and Laubuseschbach. In addition, the view extends over plateaus to the horse's head ( 662.6 m ) in the south-south-east and to the cow bed ( 525.6 m ) in the south-south-west. In the east-southeast to the south, the Taunushauptkamm rises among others with the Steinkopf ( 518 m ), the Großer Feldberg ( 879 m ) and the Kleiner Feldberg ( 825.2 m ).