Hohenberger Forest

The Hohenberger Forest , located in the natural area of Selber Forst , consists of two densely wooded ridges northwest and west of the town of Hohenberg an der Eger in the Wunsiedel district in the Fichtel Mountains .
The northern part with the hills Großer Hengstberg (651 m) and Kleiner Hengstberg (623 m) is separated by the state road 2178 from Hohenberg an der Eger to Selb and the Egertal from the southern part with the extinct volcano Steinberg (653 m) and its secondary peaks Basalt hill (652 m) and Heiligenberg (651 m).

natural reserve

The Große Hengstberg is a nature reserve and has been declared a natural forest reserve Hengstberg by the government of Upper Franconia . It was also designated a Natura 2000 area (FFH 5839-302). The Kleine Hengstberg is a protected natural monument.

The Heiligenberg sub-area is a protected geotope . Its geoscientific value has been classified as "valuable" by the Bavarian State Office for the Environment. The basalt hill is a protected landscape area .

Tourist development

The main hiking trail Mittelweg of the Fichtelgebirgsverein leads from Hohenberg across the Steinberg area , the Franconian mountain trail from Neuhaus an der Eger to Kothigenbibersbach touches the western foot of the mountain .

cards

• BayernAtlas

literature

• Julius Neidhardt: Hiking guide through the Fichtelgebirge (1987), p. 48.
• Josef Peer: The beech forest on the Hengstberg . In: Der Siebenstern 1962, p. 47.
• Friedrich Wilhelm Singer : The land book of the six offices from 1499 , p. 36, 285, 301, 364.
• Andreas Peterek / Johann Rohrmüller: On the geological history of the Fichtelgebirge and its frame in: Der Aufschluss, issue 4 + 5/2010, p. 232.
• Alfred Frank: The ocher pits at Steinberg near Thiersheim in: Narrator from Gabelmannsplatz of October 13, 1928, No. 23.
• Dietmar Herrmann: Steinhaus, Fatima Chapel and Hutschenreuther Memorial Stone in: Der Siebenstern 2007, p. 341.

Web links

• The Große Hengstberg on the website of the Fichtelgebirgsverein
• Ordinance on the nature reserve "Naturwaldreservat Hengstberg" (PDF; 19 kB)
• Bavaria-Fichtelgebirge: Geology of the Fichtelgebirge
• Bavaria-Fichtelgebirge: On the eastern edge of the Fichtelgebirge
• Bavarian State Office for the Environment, Geotope Cadastre Bavaria: Heiligenberg W von Hohenberg ad Eger (PDF; 1.5 MB)

Coordinates: 50 ° 7 ′ 55 ″  N , 12 ° 11 ′ 15 ″  E