Hegekopf (Rattlar)

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Hegekopf
height 641  m above sea level NHN
location at Rattlar ; District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , Hesse ( Germany )
Mountains Rothaar Mountains
Coordinates 51 ° 19 '46 "  N , 8 ° 39' 8"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 19 '46 "  N , 8 ° 39' 8"  E
Hegekopf (Rattlar) (Hesse)
Hegekopf (Rattlar)

The Hegekopf is at least 641  m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge . It is located near Rattlar in the municipality of Willingen in the northern Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg .

geography

location

The Hegekopf rises in the Upland , the northeastern foothills of the Rothaargebirge, in the Diemelsee Nature Park . Its summit is 2 km north-northeast of Rattlar, a district of Willingen, and 2.8 km (as the crow flies ) south of Bontkirchen , a district of Brilon in North Rhine-Westphalia . To the northwest the landscape drops into the valley of the Itter and to the east into that of its tributary Dommelbach ; Along the Itter, between the nearby Willingen district of Schwalefeld in the south-west and Bontkirchen in the north-east, the Hessian state road  3393, which merges into the L 800 in Westphalia.

The neighboring mountains of the Hegekopf include the Dommel ( 738  m ) in the east, the Sinzelieth ( 638.6  m ) in the southeast, the Hermannsberg ( 705.1  m ) in the south, the Höhekopf ( 621.7  m ) in the south-southwest, the Schetenkopf (approx.  650  m ) in the south-west and the Rothekopf ( 682.1  m ) in the west-north-west.

Natural allocation

The Hegekopf belongs in 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, the landscape in the subunit Upland (333.9) merges into the Inner Upland natural area (333.90).

Mountain height

The Hegekopf is at least 641  m high, which refers to the height of a forest path branch, which can be seen on topographic maps in the northwest of the summit region .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c 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)