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High eight
High eight from the east

High eight from the east

height 746.9  m above sea level NHN
location near Adenau ; Counties Ahrweiler and Mayen-Koblenz ; Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany )
Mountains Eifel
Dominance 62.9 km →  At the two stones ( Hunsrück )
Notch height 525 m ↓  WSW from Loison
Coordinates 50 ° 23 '10 "  N , 7 ° 0' 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '10 "  N , 7 ° 0' 40"  E
Hohe Acht (Rhineland-Palatinate)
High eight
particularities - highest mountain in the Eifel
- Kaiser Wilhelm Tower ( AT )
View from the Hohe Acht in southwest direction to the Nürburg

View from the Hohe Acht in southwest direction to the Nürburg

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The Hohe Acht near Adenau is 746.9  m above sea level. NHN is the highest mountain in the Eifel and marks the border between the districts of Ahrweiler and Mayen-Koblenz in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Kaiser Wilhelm Tower is on the wooded mountain, which is a hiking and winter sports area .

geography

location

The Hohe Acht is located in the Hocheifel . Its summit rises 5.5 km east of the core town of Adenau and 3.3 km (as the crow flies ) north of the center of the municipality of Herresbach , with the border between the two running over the summit. Neighboring are Jammelshofen in the east-northeast and Siebenbach in the east-southeast .

Natural allocation

The Hohe Acht belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Eastern Eifel (No. 27), in the main unit Eastern High Eifel ( 271) and in the subunit Hohe-Acht / Nitz-Nette-Bergland (271.2) to the natural area Hohe-Acht-Bergland (271.20).

geology

The Hohe Acht is a tertiary volcano , the cone of which is made of rocks from the Lower Devonian and the summit of basalt .

Protected areas

The Hohe Acht nature reserve is located on the Hohe Acht ( CDDA no. 81906; designated 1970; 1.67  km² in size). In addition, there are parts of the protected landscape Rhein-Ahr-Eifel (CDDA No. 323,834;., 1980; 925.86 square kilometers) and the protection of birds Ahrgebirge (VSG No. 5507-401;. 304.23  ha ).

See also: List of nature reserves in the Ahrweiler district

Kaiser Wilhelm Tower

Kaiser Wilhelm Tower ; in front of it the summit stone of the Hohe Acht

The Kaiser Wilhelm Tower was built on the Hohe Acht in 1908/09 . The observation tower is located about 12 m east-southeast ( ⊙ ) of the summit stone in the Adenau district . It is 16.3 m high and has a wall thickness of one meter on the ground floor.

The reason for the construction of the stone tower according to the plans of the Berlin architect Freiherr von Tettau was the silver wedding of Kaiser Wilhelm II. And Empress Auguste Viktoria as well as the memory of Kaiser Wilhelm I. The construction was carried out by the master masons Karl and Johannes Leidinger from Adenau using local people Quarry stone. The construction costs amounted to 18,000 marks.

After the Second World War, the tower was initially closed by the French, then until 1959 because it was used by a US radar unit. The organ of the Eifelverein reported in 1961: “After two months of renovation work, the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower on the Hohe Acht is now open to hikers again. ... The ascent to the tower leads over new steps. Inside, the old stone stairs were torn out and replaced with concrete steps. The iron railing could still be partially used. The crown of the tower was renewed. … “The tower has been a listed building since 1987 . In the mid-1980s, further renovation work was necessary; more than 100,000 D-Mark had to spend on this Ahrweiler district. From January to April 18, 2015, the tower was closed to visitors by the district administration for security reasons due to pending renovation work.

The tower's viewing platform offers views of the Eifel (with Scharteberg , Döhmberg , Michelsberg , Hochthürmerberg , Schöneberg , Nürburg , Hochkelberg , Gänsehals , Hochstein , Hochsimmer ), to the Siebengebirge (with the Great Ölberg ) and, if visibility is good, to the Westerwald , Taunus and Hunsrück as well as the Lower Rhine region .

Traffic and walking

The federal road 412 leads past the Hohen Acht in the southeast , from which state road  10 branches off in the east near Siebenbach, which mainly runs west to Adenau . For example, by starting on these roads, the mountain can be hiked on hiking trails and trails, including the like. a. on the Eifelleiter (52.8 km; Bad Breisig - Adenau). A wide view of the Eifel landscape is possible at numerous points.

Sports

In winter there are often good winter sports opportunities on the Hohe Acht . Well-groomed trails , toboggan runs and ski lifts are available.

On the northeast slope of the Hohe Acht there was a ski jumping hill from 1934 to the 1980s , which is still noted on some hiking maps. Her K point was 25 m. Karlheinz Buchholz set the hill record on March 13, 1955 with 22.5 m.

About 1.5 km southwest of the summit of the Hohe Acht , on the southwest flank of the mountain, as part of the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring, is the Hohe Acht race track section , which extensively surrounds the Nürburg ruins standing on a 676.5  m high volcanic cone .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  3. ↑ Schartenhöhe according to Eberhard Jurgalski , Summits in Germany with at least 379 meters of re-ascent - on sol.co.uk ( Memento from January 18, 2006 in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Wanderwege , Deutsches Jugendherbergswerk, 1958, p. 127.
  5. ↑ Hohe Acht: Kaiser Wilhelm Tower reopened ( memento from October 29, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ), Eifelverein Ortsgruppe Adenau e. V., from April 17, 2015, on eifelverein.de.
  6. ↑ a b Ski jump at the Hohe Acht , on skisprungschanzen.com.
  7. ↑ Kompass , hiking map Bonn, Ahrtal , 1: 50,000, No. 820, ISBN 3-87051-135-4 .

literature

  • Werner d'Hein: National Geopark Vulkanland Eifel. A nature and culture guide. Gaasterland-Verlag, Düsseldorf 2006, ISBN 3-935873-15-8 .
  • New contributions to the history of the Rhenish volcanoes. The extinct volcanoes in the Eifel and on the Lower Rhine. Part 2, Florian Kupferberg, Mainz 1821, p. 75.

Web links

Commons : Hohe Acht  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files