Hegekopf
Hegekopf | ||
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View from the Niedersfelder Hochheide with the Neuer Hagen nature reserve there to the Hegekopf in the center of the picture |
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height | 842.9 m above sea level NHN | |
location | near Willingen ; District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany ) |
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Mountains | Rothaar Mountains | |
Dominance | 2.2 km → Langenberg | |
Notch height | 77.3 m ↓ 1.1 km south of the Langernberg | |
Coordinates | 51 ° 16 ′ 11 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 19" E | |
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The Hegekopf is 842.9 m above sea level. NHN after the Langenberg ( 843.2 m ) the second highest mountain in the north-western part of Germany, in the northern part of northern Hesse and before the Kahler Asten ( 841.9 m ) also the second highest mountain in the Rothaargebirge . It is located near Willingen in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district .
geography
location
The Hegekopf rises in the northeast part of the Rothaargebirge not far from the interface of the mountain regions Upland and Sauerland . The summit of the wooded mountain is about 3 km south-southwest of the center of Willingen . From there it is almost 800 m (as the crow flies ) in a south-westerly direction to the border with North Rhine-Westphalia and thus to the Hochsauerlandkreis . The Hoppecke flows west past the Hegekopf , the small tributary of which Ruthenaar rises to the northeast. The small Itter tributary Hermeke runs southeast past the mountain .
Neighboring mountains are - with a height in meters (m) above sea level (NHN): Ettelsberg ( 837.7 m ) in the north-northeast, Mühlenkopf (approx. 815 m ) in the east, Hopperkopf ( 832.3 m ; beyond the Itter) in the south, Clemensberg (approx. 837 m ) in the south-south-west, Langenberg ( 843.2 m ; 2.2 km beyond the Hoppecke) in the west-north-west and Mittelberg ( 801 m ) in the north-west.
Natural allocation
The Hegekopf belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Winterberger Hochland (333.5) to the natural area Langenberg (333.58). The landscape falls to the north into the Inner Upland (333.90) natural area , part of the Upland subunit (333.9).
See also
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)