Kahlberg (Odenwald)
| Kahlberg | ||
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 Memorial stone for the demarcation between the Mark Heppenheim and the Mark Michelstadt by Charlemagne on the Kahlberg in 795. |
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| height | 520.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Hessen , Germany | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Dominance | 3.9 km → Wagenberg | |
| Notch height | 83 m ↓ Hammelbach | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 39 '20 " N , 8 ° 51' 26" E | |
| Topo map | LAGIS Hessen | |
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| particularities | The border was drawn by Charlemagne in 795 | |
The Kahlberg is 520.6 m above sea level. NHN high wooded mountain in the Fürth Zentwald in the area of the core municipality of Fürth in the Bergstrasse district in the Hessian Odenwald .
The Kahlberg is a cornerstone of the Buntsandstein-Odenwald on the border with the Vorderen Odenwald to the northwest . The summit region forms a ridge almost one kilometer long, which has the shape of a quarter-turn arch with a curve pointing to the south-east and next to the main summit ( 520.6 m ) in the northern part 750 meters further south over an almost equally high secondary peak ( 520 m above sea level . NHN ). This southern summit forms the central watershed point in the Odenwald. This is where the water catchment areas of the Main , Neckar and Upper Rhine meet . The western slope of the summit ridge drains to the Weschnitz , the eastern slope to the Mümling , the southern end to the Ulfenbach , and the northern slope of the main summit overlooks the valley head of the Osterbach from the south , which rises here as the right source river of the Gersprenz .
Along the northern flank, the federal highway 460 known as Siegfriedstrasse climbs east to the Wegscheide , the transition into the Mümlingtal .
The closest localities are Weschnitz in the west, Erzbach in the north, Hiltersklingen in the south-east, Gras-Ellenbach in the south and Hammelbach in the south-west.