Eastern High Eifel

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Eastern High Eifel
Alternative names Hocheifel
surface 648 km²
Systematics according to Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany
Greater region 1st order Low mountain range threshold
Greater region 2nd order Rhenish Slate Mountains
Greater region 3rd order 27, 28, 29 →
Eifel
Main unit group 27 →
Eastern Eifel
Natural space 271 →
Eastern High Eifel
Natural area characteristics
Landscape type Low mountain range
Highest peak Hohe Acht ( 746.9  m )
Geographical location
Coordinates 50 ° 23 '9 "  N , 7 ° 0' 40"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 23 '9 "  N , 7 ° 0' 40"  E
Map of the Eifel
Map of the Eifel
state Rhineland-Palatinate

With High Eifel , often simply Hocheifel or High Eifel , the 648 sq km eastern part of the low mountain range is Eifel in Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) referred to in which particular its by far the highest point, the Hohe Acht ( 746.9  m above sea level.  NHN ). The natural area is oriented around the eastern and central parts of the main ridge of the Eastern Eifel, which is vaguely divided into individual mountains. In terms of natural space , it represents a so-called main unit and bears the code number 271.

About the name

The main ridge of the eastern Eifel region provides, in addition Schneifel , choose High Venn , Monschau Hellenthal forest plateau and the significantly west of landscapes and lying entirely in Belgium ridge between the Amel in the north and the Ourthe Orientale in the south, only one of several high priorities of the Eifel and Ardennes is all of which reach a height of almost 700  m - a height that the Eastern Eifel only exceeds on the Hohe Acht. The somewhat remote from the eastern Hocheifel High Fens-Eifel uses the term Hocheifel also in terms of Western Hocheifel (with Schneifel). The terms western and eastern are misleading insofar as the two landscapes are clearly separated from each other by the Kalkeifel and do not describe the western and eastern wings of a contiguous landscape.

geography

location

The Eastern High Eifel lies between Adenau in the northwest, Schalkenbach in the extreme northeast, Mayen in the east, Kaisersesch in the southeast, Ulmen in the south, Daun in the southwest and Dockweiler in the west. In the interior are in particular Kelberg , the Nürburg and Südschleife and roughly the southeastern half of the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring .

To the south the landscape merges into the Moselle Eifel (main unit 270), to the west into the Kalkeifel (276), to the north into the Ahreifel (272) and to the east into the Lower Middle Rhine region (292) with the Laacher volcanoes and the Middle Rhine basin ( 291) with the Maifeld .

The neighboring area in the south-west, consisting of the north of the Moselle Eifel and the south-east of the Kalkeifel, is better known as the Vulkaneifel . The highest volcanic activity of the Eifel was here in the Quaternary , while the scattered peaks of the Eastern High Eifel originate from older, tertiary volcanism. At the junction of the three main units, the Vulkaneifel is narrow in a west-east direction, and immediately to the south-west the main ridge is continued through the Prümscheid natural area as part of the Kyllburger Waldeifel (277).

Natural structure

The Eastern High Eifel was defined in the Handbook of the Natural Spatial Structure of Germany in the years up to 1960 as the main natural area unit 271 and is therefore part of the main unit 27 Eastern Eifel . In 1974 it was further subdivided on the refining sheet Cochem :

As High Eifel in the narrow sense , the units can be considered 271.0 to 271.41 - the units 271.42 and 271.43 are commonly rather the neighboring Moseleifel attributed (main unit 270). The main Variscan fault, which geologically separates the High Eifel from the Moselle Eifel, starts at the Vulkaneifel in the south-west, from Wollmerath to the east of Auderath to the Höchstberg , where it changes direction from north-north-east to north-east until it runs out at Mayen . The last basaltic knolls are found just southeast of this line and mark a geomorphological threshold.

Main ridge

The highest mountains of the Eastern High Eifel line up along a ridge line, which also continues beyond the Vulkaneifel in the Prümscheid . This ridge line follows, like most of the ridge lines in the Rhenish Slate Mountains , such as the Hunsrück , Taunushauptkamm and the Ebbe-Homert-Schwelle in the Sauerland, the Variscan southwest-northeast direction. Within the Eifel there are further ridges further northwest in this direction:

The place Kelberg

The main ridge of the Eastern Eifel is neither plateau-like (Hohes Venn, Hunsrück as a total ridge) nor ridge-like (individual ridges of the Hunsrück) or between these extremes (Schneifel). Rather, the highest elevations are only roughly along the ridge line, which is also repeatedly interrupted by slight incisions. The only deeper incision is the valley of the Trierbach near Kelberg . To the north-east of this valley lies the (Eastern) Hocheifel in the narrower sense on the watershed between the Ahr and Nette . In contrast, the south-western part protruding beyond the main unit mainly represents the watershed between the Moselle tributaries Lieser (east) and Kyll (west).

From the south-west (valley of the Kyll between Mürlenbach (N) and Densborn (S)) to the north-east (Königsfelder Eifekrand near Schalkenbach ), the following mountains lie along the main ridge on or near the ridge line, along with an altitude above sea level (overriding the natural area; deviations to the south-east or north-west are declared):

Ernstberg
Rassberg

mountains

High eight

The mountains of the Hocheifel ( Hohe Eifel ) include - sorted according to height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NHN; unless otherwise specified, according to) and stating the respective natural area:

Hochkelberg
High simmer

For a list of these and other Eifel mountains and elevations, see the list of mountains and elevations in the Eifel .

climate

Despite altitudes between 600  m and 700  m , the Hocheifel is located in the rain shadow of the Schneifel in the west. The annual precipitation is between 800 mm and 1000 mm.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hocheifel landscape profile ( Memento from October 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (= Eastern High Eifel) of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
  2. ↑ a b c d Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
  3. ↑ With Hocheifel ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. means the nature park of the Western High Eifel . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.naturpark-eifel.de
  4. ↑ E. Meynen , J. Schmithüsen et al: Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960)
  5. ↑ Heinz Fischer, Richard Graafen: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 136/137 Cochem. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1974. →  Online map (PDF; 5.6 MB)
  6. ↑ a b Landscape profile of the large landscape 27 East Eifel of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration ( notes )
  7. ↑ GeoViewer of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Raw Materials ( information )
  8. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  9. ↑ Map service link Salmwaldforst (619.3 m) - here assigned to the Salmer hill country
  10. ↑ Map service link Rödelkaul (592.3 m)
  11. ↑ Map service link Prümscheid (674.7 m)
  12. ↑ Map service link Dietzenley (617.6 m) - here attributed to the Gerolsteiner Kalksenke
  13. ↑ Map service link Nerother Kopf (651.7 m)
  14. ↑ Map service link Scharteberg (691.4 m)
  15. ↑ Map service link Ernstberg (699.8 m)
  16. ↑ Map service link Asseberg (601.5 m)
  17. ↑ a b map service link Dreiser Höhe (610.8 m)
  18. ↑ a b Map service link Schillberg (615.2 m)
  19. ↑ a b Map service link Barsberg (599.6 m)
  20. ↑ a b map service link nameless hilltop in Suhrbüsch (approx. 614 m); immediately to the north is a second, almost equally high knoll
  21. ↑ a b map service link Hochkelberg (674.9 m) - southeast edge of the Trierbach-Lieser-Quellbergland, at the interface to Üßbachbergland (SW) and Elzberghöhen (O)
  22. ↑ a b map service link Rote Heck (639.9 m)
  23. ↑ a b map service link Burgberg / Nürburg (676.5 m) - northern edge of the Hohe-Acht-Bergland
  24. ↑ a b map service link Reuterberg (652.1 m)
  25. ↑ a b map service link Hohe Acht (746.9 m)
  26. ↑ a b Map service link Raßberg (664.9 m)
  27. ↑ a b Map service link Schellkopf (652.7 m)
  28. ↑ a b map service link Schöneberg (670.2 m)
  29. ↑ a b Map service link Bockshahn (643.7 m)
  30. ↑ Map service link Düsselberg (607.0 m)
  31. ↑ a b map service link Perlerkopf (579.1 m)
  32. ↑ Map service link Höchstberg (616.4 m)
  33. ↑ Map service link Hocheichen (588.7 m)
  34. ↑ Hochsimmer (587.9 m)
  35. ↑ Map service link goose neck (575.3 m)
  36. ↑ Map service link Gallberg (569.8 m) - here just under the Müllenbacher Riedelland, but actually a typical edge height of the Elzbachhöhen
  37. ↑ Map service link Steineberger Ley (557.8 m)

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