High Root (Taunus)
| High root | ||
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 Sight from the west via Wambach away |
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| height | 617.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Taunusstein and Wiesbaden ; Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and Wiesbaden as a district; Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 11.02 km → Cold hostel | |
| Notch height | 173 m ↓ B 275 near Wambach | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 6 '43 " N , 8 ° 7' 45" E | |
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| particularities | - until 2006 with Gustav-Vietor-Turm - telecommunications tower Hohe Wurzel |
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The high root is 617.9 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Taunus . It lies in the areas of Taunusstein in Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and the independent state capital Wiesbaden in Hesse , is part of the Taunus main ridge ( High Taunus ) and the highest point on the border of the Rheingau-Taunus district with Wiesbaden. It is the third highest point in the Rheingau-Taunus district, after the Windhain ( 629.3 m ) near Wüstems and the Kalten Herberge ( 619.3 m ).
geography
location
The Hohe Wurzel is located in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park . While its largest part, including the summit region, is in the area of the Taunusstein district of Bleidenstadt , its southeastern parts, which are located below the Rheinhöhenweg, are part of the Dotzheim district of the city of Wiesbaden. To the north-north-west of the mountain is Seitzenhahn , north-north-east Bleidenstadt (both to Taunusstein), east- south- east Klarenthal , south-east Dotzheim (both to Wiesbaden), south-south-west Schlangenbad and west Wambach (to Schlangenbad).
The summit region of the wooded mountain, located above the 600 m height line , forms an approximately 1.1 km long and 300 m wide plateau, which cuts the ridge line of the Taunus main ridge diagonally in a north-west-south-east direction. The northwest tip is within the local mountaintop 617.9 m and the southeast tip 613.9 m high. Somewhat east-south-east of the last-mentioned knoll is the highest point of the Wiesbaden city area at 608 m .
The Weilburger Bach rises to the southeast of the mountain and flows into the Upper Rhine as Mosbach near Schloss Biebrich .
Natural allocation
The high root belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit High Taunus (301) to the subunit Wiesbaden high Taunus (301.2). The landscape descends east to south into the natural area Georgenborn Nauroder Slope Schuttfuß (301.20) and to the south-west to west into the natural area Pass von Schlangenbad (301.11), which belongs to the subunit Rheingauebirge (301.1). It also falls to the west-north-west to the north into the natural area Südwestliche Seitzenhahner Mulde (304.41), which is adjoined in the north-east by the mountainous natural area Oberaartalsenke (304.40); Both belong in the main unit Oberaarmulde (304) to the sub-unit Westlicher Hintertaunus (301.4).
Protected areas
Parts of the Wiesbaden landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 555513808; designated 2010; 133.28 km² in size) and those of the fauna-flora-habitat area beech forests north of Wiesbaden (FFH no. 5815-306; 41.24 km).
Towers
Gustav Vietor Tower
The 24 m high Gustav-Vietor-Turm (also called Iron Tower ) was built on the mountain in 1883 as a lookout tower . From its platform, the view fell into the Taunus and the Rheingau , most recently it was also used for amateur radio purposes. In March 2006 it was demolished because it was in disrepair.
Telecommunication tower Hohe Wurz
On the mountain, about 400 m southeast of its summit, stands the 133 m high telecommunications tower Hohe Wurzel , which was built using reinforced concrete . From there and other locations that will Rhein-Main area in simulcast with digital television ( DVB-T supplied). In addition, DAB and FM radio are broadcast from here .
Sports
Bobsleigh, sledge and mountain bike
In the past, a 1.48 km long bobsleigh and toboggan run ran on the slopes of the mountain through the forest areas “Hohe Wurzel”, “Winterbruch”, “Heidekopf” and “ Schläferskopf ”. The difference in altitude was 176 m, the maximum gradient 21 percent. In 2010, a reactivation as a mountain bike route was under discussion.
Mountain test to the high root
In the years 1923 to 1928 there was a hill climb or a "mountain test to the Hohen Wurzel" as part of the "Wiesbaden automobile tournament (s)". Well-known racing drivers competed, z. B. Carl Jörns (winner 1924), Huldreich Heusser (winner 1925), Karl Kappler (winner 1928) or Adolf Rosenberger (winner 1926 and 1927).
Transport, leisure and hiking
Landesstraße 3037 (also called Hohe Straße or Lahnstraße ), which branches off from Bundesstraße 275 in the north-west between Bad Schwalbach and Wambach , runs over the southwestern highlands of the Hohe Wurzel . It runs past the Taunus Wunderland amusement park and then around 400 m southwest of the mountain summit over an approximately 570 m high mountain point and a little later, southeast of the mountain, crossing the Aartalbahn , roughly in a north-west-south-east direction to Wiesbaden. The Hohe Wurzel hikers' car park is located near this mountain and road point , from which the mountain summit can be accessed on circular hiking trails in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park. In addition to the part of the Rheinhöhenweg on the right bank of the Rhine , the E3 European long-distance hiking trail also leads over the mountain .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Dominances and celebrities in the Taunus , on highrisepages.de
- ↑ Heinrich Müller-Miny, Martin Bürgener: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 138 Koblenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1971. → Online map (PDF; 5.7 MB)
- ↑ The view was worth 5,000 gold marks ( memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) in Wiesbadener Tagblatt , November 15, 2006
- ↑ Cornelia Diergardt: Bobsleigh run for mountain bikers? ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Wiesbadener Kurier , October 30, 2010
- ↑ cf. The years 1904–1934 , at the Wiesbadener Automobil Club (WAC), on wac-avd.de
- ↑ cf. Mountain race winner 1897-1949 (Engl. Hill Climb Winners ), lists of 1924-1930, on kolumbus.fi
- ↑ Hohe Wurzel… , on quaedlich.de
