High Eimberg
| High Eimberg | ||
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 View from the Hochheideturm on the Ettelsberg over |
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| height | 806.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Willingen ; Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hochsauerlandkreis ; Hessen , North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Rothaar Mountains | |
| Dominance | 3.5 km → Ettelsberg | |
| Notch height | 224 m ↓ in Willingen, to the Ettelsberg | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 ′ 43 " N , 8 ° 36 ′ 3" E | |
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The Hohe Eimberg near Willingen is 806.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Rothaargebirge on the border of the Hessian district Waldeck-Frankenberg and the North Rhine-Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis .
geography
location
The Hohe Eimberg is located in the northeast part of the Rothaargebirge at the junction of Hochsauerland in the Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis and Upland in the north Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg in the Diemelsee Nature Park on both sides of the state border . It represents the southern elevation of the Dreis mountain range , the northern of which is the Dreiskopf . Its summit rises in Willingen area a few meters southeast of the border, about 2 km north-northwest of the Willingen core town, 2 km west of its district Schwalefeld and 3.8 km (as the crow flies ) south-southeast of Brilon-Wald ; near the summit is the highest point of the city of Brilon in Westphalia at 805.5 m . The mountain is passed in the west by the Hoppecke, which flows in a south-north direction, and in the east by the Itter , which runs in the same direction and which are both tributaries of the Diemel .
Mountain height
The height of the Hohen Eimberg is often only given as 796 m or around 800 m , which, however, refers to a trigonometric point located around 330 m southwest of its summit at 796.5 m .
Natural allocation and landscape protection
The Hohe Eimberg belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Hochsauerländer Schluchtgebirge (333.8) largely to the natural area Schellhorn and Treiswald (333.82), with its southern flank in the Subunit Upland (333.9) belongs to the Inner Upland (333.90) natural area .
Parts of the Hoppecke-Diemel-Bergland landscape protection area (landscape type A) ( CDDA no. 345020; designated in 1989; 78.03 km² in size) are located on the Westphalian parts of the mountain .
Planned pumped storage power plant
Since 2011, the energy supply companies Mark-E (Hagen) and Grünwerke (Düsseldorf) have been planning to build a pumped storage power plant with an upper basin on the Hohen Eimberg and a lower basin in the Itterbachtal near Schwalefeld with an investment of around 500 million euros. An alternative location for such a system is the Sorpeberg near Glinge ( Finnentrop ) in the neighboring district of Olpe . A planning and implementation period of at least ten years is currently assumed. The start of construction should not take place before 2019.
The upper basin of the Hoher Eimberg site , for which 23.5 ha of space with 128,192 m² of storage area is required, should be able to hold around 2.67 million m³ of water with 2.51 million m³ of pendulum water. At a depth of 30 m , it is to be bordered by a ring-shaped earth and stone rubble dam with a height of 15 m, with the dam material coming from the basin area to be dredged in a mass balance. 1.52 million m³ of ground movements would be required. The water should fall through an inlet tower and an adjoining, approximately 400 m long pressure shaft at a height difference of 323.5 m to the power house with the pump turbines in the Itterbachtal. There, near Schwalefeld, the 24-hectare lower basin with an approximately 34 m high and 214 m long earth and stone embankment is to be built; the dam material could be taken from the overburden resulting from the construction of the necessary tunnels. It should have a maximum volume of 3.18 million m³ and 2.55 million m³ of usable space on 227,450 m² of storage space. In the basin area, the L 3393 (see below ) would have to be relocated to a length of around 3 km.
A pressure tunnel, access tunnel and pressure shaft as well as the energy dissipation must also be built for the power plant. For the cavern power plant, an output of 324 MW with an energy production of 1950 megawatt hours is planned.
Traffic and walking
The federal road 251 leads past Hohen Eimberg in the west , which runs from Brilon through Brilon-Wald to Willingen , and in the east the state road 3393, which leads from Bontkirchen through Schwalefeld to Willingen, where it meets the B 251. For example, starting at these roads, the mountain can be hiked on mostly forest trails and paths. The Briloner Kammweg , a hiking trail with the quality seal Quality Trail Wanderable Germany of the Association of German Mountain and Hiking Clubs , leads on its 49 km long path over the mountain and back to Brilon.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
- ↑ a b German basic map from 2011
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Article ... thoughts on pumped storage power plants ... - 500 million project targeted , on wlz-fz.de