Kesselberg (Odenwald)
| Kesselberg | ||
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| height | 531.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | between Ober-Hambach and Schannenbach ; Bergstrasse District , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Dominance | 1 km → Krehberg | |
| Notch height | 25 m | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 40 '38 " N , 8 ° 42' 18" E | |
| Topo map | LAGIS Hessen | |
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| particularities | Rock formation stone castle | |
The Kesselberg between Ober-Hambach and Schannenbach in the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse is 531.1 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Odenwald above the mountain road . The mountain is heavily forested.
geography
location
The Kesselberg rises in the western part of the western Odenwald in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald nature park on the northern edge of the Heppenheim forest , about 6 km northeast of the city center. It is located between the villages of Gronau in the northwest and Schannenbach in the northeast, both in the valley of the Meerbach , which leaves the Odenwald near Bensheim and flows into the Weschnitz near Lorsch , and between Scheuerberg am Lörzenbach in the southeast and Ober-Hambach am Hambach in the southwest; all of the aforementioned brooks arise on the Kesselberg. Between the Heppenheim districts of Scheuerberg and Ober-Hambach, the forest area of the city center stretches along a ridge as a narrow strip to the castle ruins of Starkenburg . In the other direction, the Kesselberg joins the 575.7 m high Krehberg in the east-northeast over a ridge around one and a half kilometers long . The stone castle rock formation lies on the southeast slope . About 500 m northwest of the Kesselberg is the approximately 498 m high secondary summit Heiligenberg .
Natural allocation
The Kesselberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (No. 14), in the main unit Vorderer Odenwald (145) to the subunit Krehberg-Odenwald (145.5).
Fauna-flora habitat area
On the Kesselberg there are parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area beech forests of the front Odenwald (FFH no. 6218-302), which is 37.05 km² in size.
Traffic and walking
In each of the four villages around the Kesselberg, a district road ends with a hikers' car park : in Gronau the K 58 with the Märkerwald car park , in Schannenbach the K 56 with the Schannenbacher Eck car park , in Scheuerberg the K 54 with the Scheuerberg car park and in Ober-Hambach the K 57 with the Goldbrunnen car park . Circular hiking trails in the Kesselberg area begin there. In addition, the Hessian long-distance cycle path R9 and the Hessenweg 7 , a 155 km long long-distance hiking trail from Kaub to Erbach , lead over the Kesselberg.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Hessian Land Surveying Office: Topographische Freizeitkarte Nördlicher Odenwald West , M = 1: 50,000, 2003