Hünersedel
| Hünersedel | ||
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 The Hünersedel, seen from the Zweälersteig . |
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| height | 744.3 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany | |
| Mountains | Black Forest | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 12 '17 " N , 7 ° 58' 19" E | |
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| particularities | Hünersedelturm ( AT ) | |
The Hünersedel is a mountain in the Middle Black Forest with a height of 744.3 m above sea level. NHN . His name is interpreted as a giant seat . In a document from the year 926 the mountain is called "Stoufinberc". It lies in the border area of the two communities Schuttertal and Freiamt . The summit of the mountain is at the northern end of the municipality of Freiamt. The Schutter river has its source at Hünersedel . The Hünersedel was the highest mountain in the old Lahr district .
In the 1950s, a surveying tower was built on the Hünersedel, which was very popular with locals due to its all-round view. In the 1990s, the Hünersedel e. V. founded to build a new observation tower on the Hünersedel. In the run-up to this, a provisional surveying tower was erected in 2002 for test purposes.
On October 2nd, 2004, the Hünersedel tower was inaugurated on the Hünersedel after a year of construction. The 29 meter high observation tower was built with the help of private donations (€ 200,000). The construction was first mounted on the ground and then erected with the help of a crane. The main supports of the tower consist of three large logs (height of the largest support: 27.55 meters), each of which is supported by two additional struts. The Douglas fir wood for the tower was felled in the Freiämter forest. The tower offers a spacious all-round view over the Rhine plain to Strasbourg and to Colmar , the Vosges , the Kaiserstuhl , over almost the entire western slope of the Black Forest from the Blauen , Belchen , Schauinsland and Feldberg in the south over the Kandel , Rohrhardsberg and Fohrenbühl to Brandenkopf , Mooskopf and to the Hornisgrinde in the north and the adjacent valleys of the Middle Black Forest (Elztal, Kinzigtal, Schuttertal, Bleichtal).
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- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Karlheinz Ebert: The Black Forest and the Upper Rhineland ; DuMont Buchverlag Cologne 1990, p. 164