Jordanshöhe

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Jordanshöhe
height 723  m above sea level NHN
location near Sankt Andreasberg ; District of Goslar , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Harz ( Upper Harz )
Dominance 1.212 km →  hilltop
Coordinates 51 ° 43 '21 "  N , 10 ° 31' 23"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 43 '21 "  N , 10 ° 31' 23"  E
Jordanshöhe (Lower Saxony)
Jordanshöhe

The Jordan height in the Harz is about 723  m above sea level. NHN high side knoll of the mountain Kuppe ( 729.1  m ) near Sankt Andreasberg in the Lower Saxony district of Goslar .

geography

location

The Jordanshöhe rises in the Upper Harz in the Harz Nature Park . Its summit is about 1.4 km north-northeast of the center of Sankt Andreasberg and joins the dome to the east . The Glückaufklippen ( ) are located on the common southern flank of both mountains and the source of the Sperrlutter on the western flank of the Jordanshöhe .

The Jordanshöhe Youth Hostel is located on the south-western slope of the mountain, and on and on the mountain there is the Jordanshöhe Geology Trail . To the east the landscape slopes down into the Oder valley along the Gesehrwasser and Kellwasser brooks .

Parts of the Harz landscape protection area (district of Goslar) ( CDDA no. 321402; designated 2001; 389.75 km² in size) are located on the Jordanshöhe .

Natural allocation

The Jordanshöhe belongs in the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Middle Harz ( Upper Harz ; 380) and in the subunit Southern Central Harz ( Southern Upper Harz ; 380.8) to the natural area Andreasberger Plateau (380.83).

Diagram of an information board on the geological nature trail on the Jordanshöhe
Panorama from the Jordanshöhe towards the southwest to the Matthias-Schmidt-Berg (left) to the west to the summit (middle right)

Individual evidence

  1. a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )