Rooster step

Rooster step
	View from the Hohen Loog southwest to the Hahnenschritt (center) ; with the Hüttenberg (left behind)
Pass height	554 m above sea level NHN
expansion	Pass road
Mountains	Haardt (Palatinate Forest)
	Map (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Coordinates	49 ° 19 '24 " N , 8 ° 4' 54" E Coordinates: 49 ° 19 '24 " N , 8 ° 4' 54" E

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The Hahnenschritt is an approximately 554 m high mountain pass in the Haardt , a low mountain range on the eastern edge of the Palatinate Forest , in Rhineland-Palatinate . The pass lies within the boundaries of the urban district Neustadt an der Weinstrasse directly north of the border with the municipality of Maikammer in the southern Weinstrasse district . The Kalmithöhenstraße ( Landesstraße 515) runs over the northern flank of the Kalmit mountain ( 672.6 m ) on the southern edge of the pass - there on the district of Maikammer - which reaches its maximum height of 557.9 m near the pass .

geography

location

View from the pass to the southwest of the Kalmithöhenstraße

The Hahnenschritt lies in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park and in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve - between the Kalmit ( 672.6 m ) in the south and the Zwergberg ( 589.3 m ) in the north, which is part of the Hohen Loog massif ( 618.7 m ) ; both mountain peaks are about 450 m away. The top of the pass drops to the northeast to the Klausental and to the northwest to the Finstertal , which merges into the Kaltenbrunner Tal in the northeast .

The pass is located 5.2 km south-west of Neustadt an der Weinstrasse , to whose district most of it belongs, and 4.2 km north-west of Maikammer , whose district is 557.9 m high in the south of the mountain saddle (on the north flank of Kalmit) Position of the L 515.

Waters

To the east of Hahnenschritt, the Wooggraben runs in the Klausental , the water of which flows into the Speyerbach in the Upper Rhine Valley via Schlittgraben, Nellengraben and Kropsbach . The Buchenlochbach , which rises west of the pass, flows a few hundred meters in the Finstertal into the Enggleisbach , whose water also flows through the Kaltenbrunnertalbach to the Speyerbach.

Entrances, walks and views

The Hahnenschritt enables the transition from Klausental in the east to Kaltenbrunnertal via the Buchenloch in the west. There is a path junction ( Wegspinne ) on it, hiking trails lead to Taubenkopf ( 603.8 m ), to Kalmit ( 672.6 m ), over the Zwergberg to Hohen Loog ( 618.7 m ), over the Hüttenhohl ( 476.9 m ) m ) to the Hüttenberg ( 620.1 m ), to the Totenkopf ( 513.7 m ), to the Rotsohlberg ( 607.1 m ) and to the Schafkopf ( 616.8 m ).

While the east side of Hahnenschritt is densely forested, there is a good view to the west of the Middle Palatinate Forest with the Rotsohlberg ( 607.1 m ) and the Oberscheid ( 582.3 m ) in the foreground.

A hikers' car park is located on the mountain pass in the forest on the L 515 . The nearby managed mountain huts of the Palatinate Forest Association are the Totenkopfhütte , the Kalmithaus and the Hohe-Loog-Haus .

Kaltenbrunnertal Kaltenbrunnerhütte	Bildbaum Hohe Loog Hohe-Loog-Haus Afrikaviertel (Neustadt)	Klausental Klausentalhütte
Oberscheid		Pigeon head
Hüttenhohl Kalmithöhenstrasse	Kalmit Kalmithaus	Kalmithöhenstraße Breitenberg

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b LANIS: mountain pass with hikers' car park. Retrieved January 23, 2017 (topographic map).
↑ LANIS: location on Kalmithöhenstraße (L 515) near the pass. Retrieved January 23, 2017 (topographic map).

[Pass/Parkplatz-1] LANIS: mountain pass with hikers' car park. Retrieved January 23, 2017 (topographic map).

[L515Stelle-2] LANIS: location on Kalmithöhenstraße (L 515) near the pass. Retrieved January 23, 2017 (topographic map).