Hegekopf

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Hegekopf
View from the Niedersfelder Hochheide with the Neuer Hagen nature reserve there to the Hegekopf in the center of the picture

View from the Niedersfelder Hochheide with the Neuer Hagen nature reserve there to the Hegekopf in the center of the picture

height 842.9  m above sea level NHN
location near Willingen ;
District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany )
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 Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 11 "  N , 8 ° 35 ′ 19"  E
Hegekopf (Hesse)
Hegekopf

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

  1. a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. 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)