Kemeler Heath
The Kemeler Heide in the Taunus low mountain range (main unit group 30) is a historical landscape in the western Hintertaunus (main unit 304) and is now part of the largest contiguous forest area in Hesse .
In terms of its natural surroundings, it belongs to the Western Aartaunus (Kemeler Ridge) (reference number 304.1). The Zorner plateau (304.5) connects to the Kemeler Heide to the southwest. The forest cover is more than 60%. Until the 19th century , a large part of the landscape was still used as heather and was later reforested. The Hochscholle of the Kemeler Heide lies between 500 and 550 m altitude and reaches its highest elevations in the Mappershainer Kopf at 548 m above sea level. NN and gray head with 543.4 m above sea level. NN .
The main places on the edge of the Kemeler Heide are Heidenrod - Kemel (south), Holzhausen an der Haide (northwest), Nastätten (west) and Laufenselden (northeast).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Federal Agency for Nature Conservation: Landscape profile Westlicher Hintertaunus ( Memento from April 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Environmental Atlas Hesse: Description of the natural areas of the Taunus
- ↑ Natural space map, sheet 138 Koblenz, 1971 edition PDF file 5.66 MB
- ↑ Stolz, C., Böhnke, S., Grunert, J. (2012): Reconstructing 2500 years of land use history on the Kemel Heath (Kemeler Heide), southern Rhenish Massif, Germany. - E&G Quaternary Science Journal 61 (2): 173-187 ( Memento from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) PDF file 3 MB
- ↑ Topographic map 1: 25,000