Kargeskopf

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Kargeskopf
height 585  m above sea level NHN
location near Lonau ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Resin ( middle resin )
Coordinates 51 ° 42 '12 "  N , 10 ° 21' 24"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 42 '12 "  N , 10 ° 21' 24"  E
Kargeskopf (Lower Saxony)
Kargeskopf

The Kargeskopf is 585  m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Harz . It is located near Lonau in the non-parish Harz region of the Göttingen district in Lower Saxony .

geography

Location and mountain height

The Kargeskopf rises in the Central Harz Mountains and in the Harz National Park . Its summit is 1.5 km northeast of the village church of Lonau , a district of Herzberg am Harz . To the northeast the landscape leads over to the Braakberg ( 645.5  m ) with a low notch height , and to the southwest it drops to another Braakberg ( 515  m ).

In the east, the Kargeskopf is separated from the Franzosenkopf ( 562  m ) by the Hackenstieltal . To the south of the mountain is the Mariental in which the Kleine Lonau flows, and to the northwest past the Große Steinau . A fast path runs over the mountain .

The Kargeskopf is about 585  m high. About 250 m east-southeast of the summit region is a 580.1  m high spur point ( ).

Natural allocation

The Kargeskopf belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Harz (No. 38), in the main unit Upper Harz (380) and in the subunit Southern Upper Harz (380.8) to the natural area Sieberbergland (380.82). To the northwest, the landscape slopes down to the Großer Steinau, which flows on the border with the southern arable ridge subunit (380.9).

Protected areas and forest cover

Parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area Harz National Park (Lower Saxony) (FFH no. 4129-302; 157.7  km² ) and the Harz National Park bird sanctuary (VSG no. 4229-402; 155.59 ) are located on the Kargeskopf km²). The mountain is overgrown with beeches on the lower elevations and with spruce on the summit region .

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Individual evidence

  1. a b c Topographic map with the Kargeskopf ( memento of the original from November 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (DTK 25; heights according to the top contour line in AK 5 / 2.5), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
  2. a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. Jürgen Spönemann: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 100 Halberstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1970. →  Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)