Hegeberg (Schwalefeld)
| Hegeberg | ||
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| height | 654 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Schwalefeld ; District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Rothaar Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 19 '20 " N , 8 ° 37' 47" E | |
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| particularities | Schwalenburg ruins | |
The Hegeberg is 654 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge . It is located near Schwalefeld in the Willingen municipality in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in northern Hesse . The Schwalenburg ruins are located on the southern slope .
geography
location
The Hegeberg rises in the Upland , the northeast foothills of the Rothaargebirge, in the Diemelsee Nature Park . Its summit is 1.6 km north of Schwalefeld and 1.8 km northwest of Rattlar , two districts of Willingen, and 4.1 km (as the crow flies ) southwest of Bontkirchen , a district of Brilon in North Rhine-Westphalia . To the east the landscape drops into the valley of the Aarbach , which flows into the Itter, which flows west and north of the mountain ; Along the Itter runs between Schwalefeld in the southwest and Bontkirchen in the northeast, the Hessian state road 3393, which merges into the L 800 in Westphalia.
The neighboring mountains of the Hegeberg include the Schetenkopf (approx. 650 m ) in the east-northeast, the Höhekopf ( 621.7 m ) in the south-east, the Lüerberg ( 713 m ) in the south-south-east, the Hohe Eimberg ( 806.1 m ) in the south-west, the Dreiskopf ( 781 m ) in the west and the Rothekopf ( 682.1 m ) in the north-northwest.
Natural allocation
The Hegeberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Hochsauerländer Schluchtgebirge (333.8) to the natural area Schellhorn and Treiswald (333.82). To the south and south-east, the landscape in the subunit Upland (333.9) falls into the Inner Upland (333.90) natural area .
Schwalenburg
The Schwalenburg ruins are located on the southern slope of the Hegeberg at an altitude of 602 m . The former castle dates from the late 8th to 10th centuries. The system has a diameter of 300 m and a circular rampart around 1700 m long. Remnants of the wall and gates of the inner and middle ring wall have been preserved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)