High Hessel
| High Hessel | ||
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| height | 743.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Oberhundem ; District of Olpe and District of Siegen-Wittgenstein , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) |
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| Mountains | Rothaar Mountains | |
| Dominance | 2.29 km → Härdler | |
| Notch height | 60.5 m ↓ Margaretenstein | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 4 '56 " N , 8 ° 13' 21" E | |
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| particularities | Transmission tower near the mountain top | |
The Hohe Hessel in the Sauerland near Oberhundem in North Rhine-Westphalia is 743.4 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge in the Olpe district with a peak near the border with the Siegen-Wittgenstein district .
geography
location
The Hohe Hessel is located roughly in the southwestern center of the Rothaar Mountains in the Sauerland-Rothaar Mountains Nature Park . Its summit rises in the Olpe (OE) district 370 m west of the border with the Siegen-Wittgenstein (SI) district, about halfway as the crow flies between Kirchhundem (OE) in the west and Bad Berleburg (SI) in the east and on such between Hilchenbach (SI) in the southwest and Schmallenberg (HSK) in the northeast; the latter village is in the neighboring Hochsauerlandkreis . The closest localities are Milchenbach (OE; zu Lennestadt ) in the north, Wingeshausen in the east-southeast and Aue (SI; both in Bad Berleburg) in the southeast as well as Rüspe in the south and Oberhundem (OE; both in Kirchhundem) in the west. The next higher neighboring mountain is the Härdler at 756 m, about 2.6 km north-northeast . About 2 km southwest of the Hohen Hessel is the Rhine-Weser Tower and not far to the west is the Panorama Park Sauerland .
Natural allocation
The Hohe Hessel belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Westrothaarhöhen (333.4) to the natural area Westliche (Rüsper) Rothaar (333.41). The landscape falls from southeast to south into the natural area Auer Ederbergland (333.42); to the west it leads into the natural area Hundemgrund (336 2 .53), which is part of the main unit Südsauerländer Bergland (336 2 ) to the subunit Südsauerländer Rothaarvorhöhen (336 2 .5).
Mountain height and summit region
The height of the Hohe Hessel is sometimes only given as around 742 or 743 m , but this refers to a trigonometric point located about 70 m west-southwest of its summit ( 743.6 m ) at a height of 742.8 m . There are several wild meadows on the high elevations of the otherwise wooded mountain near the summit . Around 200 m northeast of the summit there is a transmission tower ( 739 m ) from which Radio Siegen broadcasts.
Watershed and rivers
The Rhine-Weser watershed runs along the ridge leading from the Hohen Hessel in a north-northeast direction - past Margaretenstein ( 682.9 m ) and Grummes Köpfchen - to the Härdler along the Rothaarsteig . On the south-west slope of the Wildhöfer there ( 727.9 m ), a (somewhat distant) north-north-west side knoll of the Hohen Hessel , the Wigge rises as a tributary of the Hundem ; their water reaches the Rhine through the Lenne and Ruhr . The Lange Meinscheidbach rises between Wildhöfer and Hoher Hessel and, south of the Hohen Hessel, the Dengelsiepen ( Dengessiepen ) as the left and right source brook of the Meinscheidbach , the left source brook of the Röspe . The Westerbach rises southeast of the mountain as the right source brook of the Kappel , north of the Westerbach tributary Mühlenbach ( In der Mühle ) and east of the Westerbach tributary Weißbach ; the water from Röspe and Kappel flows through the Eder and Fulda into the Weser .
Protected areas
To the east of the summit region of the Hohen Hessel lies the Rothaarkamm nature reserve on the Grenzweg ( CDDA no. 329598; designated 2004; 38.39 km² ) and to the south are parts of the NSG Schwarzbach system with Haberg and Krenkeltal (CDDA no. 165492; 1961; 3, 12 km²). On and on the mountain are areas of two landscape protection areas : District Olpe (CDDA no. 345041; 1988; 262.87 km²) in the summit region and in the west as well as Rothaargebirge (SI) (CDDA no. 555550027; 299.42 km²) east of the summit region. Also to the east of this region is the Schanze fauna-flora-habitat area (FFH no. 4816-302; 61.62 km²) and in the south the FFH area Schwarzbachsystem with Haberg and Krenkeltal (FFH no. 4915-302; 3 , 12 km²).
Traffic and walking
Passing the respective near the High Hessel located Rhein-Weser-tower and Panorama Park Sauerland leads between Oberhundem and Rüspe the national road 553, you can go to the forest and hiking trails to the mountain of, for example, those from the 1 km Branch off to the west along the Rothaarsteig trail leading past the summit .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )