Kellerskopf (Taunus)
| Basement head | ||
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 View from the east to the Kellerskopf with the observation tower ... |
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| height | 474 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Naurod ; City of Wiesbaden , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 1 km → Bechtewald | |
| Notch height | 65 m ↓ 400 m north-northeast of the summit on a farm road | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 8 ′ 17 ″ N , 8 ° 17 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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| particularities | - Ringwall Kellerskopf - observation tower and mountain inn |
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 ... and seen from the same place, but enlarged |
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The basement head is 474 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the German low mountain range Taunus . It is located in the Naurod district of the Hessian state capital Wiesbaden . On the summit region there are remains of the Kellerskopf ring wall and a lookout tower and mountain inn .
geography
location
The Kellerskopf rises in the Rhein-Taunus Nature Park . Its summit is 3.5 km southwest of the center of the community of Niedernhausen and 1.3 km west-northwest of Naurod, 1.5 km northwest of the Naurod settlement Erbsenacker and 2.5 km north-northeast of Rambach , all of which are part of Wiesbaden. The highest point in its urban area is the Rassel ( 539.4 m ) 2.1 km to the west-northwest. The Salzbach (Rambach) rises north of the mountain , on the eastern flank lies the Rudolf-Dietz-Born near the Rudolf Dietz-Hütte (refuge) , whose water feeds the Wickerbach, which swells a little further to the east , and in the southeast rises at the nearby Steinkopf ( 331 m ) its tributary Alsbach .
Natural allocation
The Kellerskopf belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30), in the main unit Hoher Taunus (301) and in the subunit Wiesbadener Hochtaunus (301.2), the main part of which is north to west of the mountain, to the natural area Georgenborn Nauroder Slopes foot (301.20). In the main unit Vortaunus (300) the subunit Eppstein-Hornauer Vortaunus (300.1 ) joins in the east and the natural area Wiesbadener Vortaunus (300.01) in the south in the subunit Rheingau-Wiesbadener Vortaunus (300.0) .
nature
flora
The cellar head is wooded. In 1962, 107 American Douglas firs were planted on it by Troop 107 on the occasion of the 52nd anniversary of the Boy Scouts of America . A memorial stone reminds of this.
Protected areas
Parts of the Wiesbaden landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 555513808; designated 2010; 133.2864 km² ) and the fauna-flora-habitat area beech forests north of Wiesbaden (FFH no. 5815-306; 41.243 km²) are located on the Kellerskopf . Parts of the FFH area Trockenborn / Kellerskopf near Rambach (FFH No. 5815-305; 55.23 ha ) extend from its north to west foot .
Ringwall basement head
On the Kellerskopf is the ring wall Kellerskopf , a defunct rampart that is designated as a ground monument . In the absence of finds, it is unknown when and by whom the former hilltop castle was built. There are only sparse wall remnants left.
Lookout tower and mountain inn
In the area of the former Kellerskopf ring wall, there is an approx. 20 m high observation tower with an attached Kellerskopf mountain inn , in whose winter garden a registry office is set up. Both were closed in mid-2007 and then renovated. The reopening took place on October 17th, 2008. The tower had already been renovated in 1989, a memorial plaque next to the entrance commemorates this. Inside the rectangular tower you reach the roofed viewing platform, which is 18.5 m high, via 100 stone steps . From here the view extends over the Rhine-Main area to the Odenwald , Palatinate Forest and North Palatinate Bergland with the Donnersberg .
Traffic and walking
The federal road 455 leads east past the Kellerskopf, which is crossed under the district road 647 near Naurod-Erbsenacker and is connected to it there. To the west of this junction, the Kellerskopfweg branches off from the K 647 as a spur road leading to the summit region . At the end there is a parking lot for hikers . The European long-distance hiking trail E3 runs over the mountain .
gallery
Naurod settlement Erbsenacker , view from the observation tower
Memorial stone for the planting of Douglas firs (1962)
The registry office in the winter garden of the mountain inn
See also
Web links
References and comments
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Heinrich Müller-Miny, Martin Bürgener: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 138 Koblenz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1971. → Online map (PDF; 5.7 MB)
- ↑ Wiesbaden Naurod - Small but nice, on stadtleben.de
- ↑ Information based on measurements carried out privately