High nestler
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 View from a farm road south of Dossenheim eastwards to the Hohen Nistler: Quarry Leferenz (left), Hoher Nistler (center left), Gewannhöhe (center right), Heidenknörzel (in the background right) |
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| height | 496.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | between Handschuhsheim , Dossenheim and the White Stone , Baden-Württemberg ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 26 '45 " N , 8 ° 42' 27" E | |
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The Hohe Nistler is 496.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the western Odenwald . It is located near Dossenheim in the Rhein-Neckar district of Baden-Württemberg .
geography
location
The Hohe Nistler rises in the Neckartal-Odenwald Nature Park on the western slope of the Odenwald to the Upper Rhine Plain , almost 110 m high in front of its foot , set back slightly to the east behind the Bergstrasse . It is located between Handschuhsheim and Dossenheim, about 1.4 km southwest of the White Stone ( 548.9 m ). Its summit is on a rather flat knoll that continues south-south-west and west in two narrow ridges that connect it with two small secondary peaks. The third ridge, which connects the mountain with the White Stone, descends to the north-northeast to just under 460 m to the saddle at the "Seven Ways".
On the northern part of the mountain are parts of the Bergstrasse-Mitte protected landscape area ( CDDA no. 319892; designated in 1973; 6.18 km² in size).
Natural allocation
The Hohe Nistler belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (No. 14) and in the main unit Sandstone-Odenwald (144) to the subunit Central Sandstone Ooden Forest (144.6). Its landscape falls to the west into the sub-unit Südliche Bergstrasse (226.3), which is part of the main unit group Northern Upper Rhine Lowland (No. 22) to the main unit Bergstrasse (226).
Flowing waters
The slopes of the High Nistlers ultimately drain all by the Rombach in the west bordering Upper Rhine Valley to the pulpit Bach underflow Losgraben and then into the Neckar . West-northwest of the mountain, the Dossenheimer Mühlbach flows west into the lowlands, along the north foot a tributary stream runs towards it in the same direction through the short Eisbuckel valley. To the east lies the cut of the Mühltal , through which the Handschuhsheimer Mühlbach still runs to the south-southwest. This largest brook running on the Nistler turns around the southern foothills of the mountain in a north-westerly direction along the foot of the mountain to the deep plain, takes on the shorter Höllenbach , locally called Hellenbächl , which is about 150 meters below and about half a kilometer southwest of the main peak of Nistler on the slope a well rises, and then unites as the run recedes with its Dossenheim namesake to the Rombach, initially still called Humpelsgraben in the Dossenheim area .
Quarry
On the western slope, the Hohe Nistler is characterized by the rock face of the Dossenheim quarry Leferenz , in which porphyry rock was quarried until operations were closed in the 1980s . Most of the area is now open for hiking.
hike
Three forest paths lead around the western foothills of the Hohe Nistler at different heights on the slope. The uppermost of these leads from the saddle in the south-southwest (there “back path”) around the western side summit (there “Oberer Nistlerweg”) to Siebenwege. From it a west-east aisle goes halfway to the west, which follows the municipal boundary between Heidelberg and Dossenheim and in which a footpath runs to the highest point. A little south-east of it, a well-developed forest path leads from the saddle in the south-south-west to “Seven Ways” in the north-north-west, to the left of this the hilltop is slightly elevated. Two short footpaths open up the highest point from this forest path. At the side of the road there is a memorial stone that commemorates the victims of a plane crash in 1991 . Since the hilltop is wooded, it hardly offers any view.
Routes to the summit:
There are no excellent hiking trails on the Hohe Nistler itself, obviously the nearby and higher White Stone is too attractive. Common climbs to the Hohe Nistler are:
- From Handschuhsheim over the "Kleine Löbinggasse", the worth seeing loess gorge "Schanz" to the starting point of the Steinberg at the lower mountain forest border, from there over the "sloping path" (take the serpentine) to the Gewannhöhe saddle, from there over the "back path" and the southern footpath to the highest point. At one point after a storm, there is a further view of the Rhine Valley from the “Scheilen Weg”.
- From Handschuhsheim up the Mühltal to the forest parking lot at the retention basin, there follow the "Oberer Bahofweg" dirt road on the right side of the valley at the border between forest and vineyards, which bends north to the starting point of the Steinberg, from there as before.
- From Handschuhsheim up the Mühltal to the hut at the upper end of the valley at the “Strangwasenbrunnen”, next to the hut on a winding hillside footpath up to “Seven Ways”, from there via the “Back Path” and the southwestern footpath to the highest point.
- From Dossenheim over the Eisbuckeltal and, on its southern slope, crossing the road to the White Stone, to “Seven Ways”, from there as before.
- From Dossenheim to the playground at "Drei Eich", from there the paths zigzagging wildly up the western slope to the "Oberen Nistlerweg", from there over the western aisle footpath to the highest point.
A continuation of the ascent to the White Stone is usually an option.
Plane crash in 1991
On December 22, 1991, a DC-3 crashed on the Hoher Nistler in poor visibility . Of the 32 people on board, 28 were killed, including the filmmaker Martin Kirchberger , three slightly and one seriously injured. A memorial stone was later erected in memory of the victims; the inscription reads among other things: "In memory of the victims of the flight accident" .
literature
- Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North
- Official city map of Heidelberg 1: 15,000
References and comments
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Path names etc. in quotation marks according to city map 1: 15,000, see the literature.
- ↑ Map for unfamiliar people indispensable for finding the change of path; the slope paths on this route are partly leafy gravel channels.