Kielforst
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 View from Wartha approximately northwards to the Kielforst with federal motorway 4 running on the southern slope of the mountain |
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| height | 446 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | between Herleshausen and Pferdsdorf ; Werra-Meißner district and Wartburg district ; Hessen , Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ringgau | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 0 ′ 56 " N , 10 ° 11 ′ 42" E | |
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| rock | Shell limestone | |
| particularities | - Thuringian Gate ( Werra breakthrough) - formerly: Innderdeutsche border |
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The Kielforst is about 446 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Ringgau on the border of Hesse and Thuringia . It lies between Herleshausen in the Hessian Werra-Meißner district and Pferdsdorf in the Thuringian Wartburg district .
geography
location
The Kielforst rises in the southwest of the Ringgau. Its summit is about 2.4 km northeast of Herleshausen and 2.5 km southeast of the Willershausen district (both in Hesse) and 2 km southwest of Pferdsdorf (municipality of Krauthausen ; Thuringia), 2.5 km west-northwest of Hörschel , 2.5 km north-west of Neuenhof , 2.4 km north-north-west of Wartha and 2.4 km (as the crow flies ) north of Göringen (all to the city of Eisenach ; Thuringia). While most of the mountain belongs to the Hessian community of Herleshausen, its areas east of the summit in the Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal nature park belong to the district of the Thuringian horse village.
To the east-southeast, the landscape of the Kielforst falls over the Batzenköpfe ( 350.8 m ) and the spur-like Zickelsberg with the Höllgraben running north of it to the (western) Thuringian Gate about 2.5 km away , the one in the transition area to the Hörschelberg ( 324.6 m ) lying breakthrough of the Werra . To the south it also drops into the Werra Valley, into which the Seelenberg brook flows south-south-west of the mountain and the Pferdsbach brook that passes north of the mountain to the east-north-east . To the south-west it leads to the Knüll secondary knoll ( 338.6 m ).
In the valley between the Kielforst and the Seelenberg ( 364.9 m ) to the west lies the Siegelshof homestead belonging to Herleshausen .
Mountain height
The Kielforst is about 446 m (according to other information 445.5 m ) high. Its highest point is called the French head . In the vicinity of the peaks, topographic maps show an altitude of 436.6 m and a trigonometric point at 440.1 m .
Natural allocation
The Kielforst belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Thuringian Basin (with edge plates) (No. 48), in the main unit Ringgau – Hainich – Obereichsfeld – Dün – Hainleite (483) and in the subunit Der Ringgau (483.4) to the natural area Südlicher Ringgau (483.41) . To the southwest, its landscape falls into the southern Ringgau foothills (483.40), to the south-southeast in the main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35), in the main unit Salzunger Werrabergland (359) and in the subunit Salzungen-Herleshausener Werratal (359.1) into the natural area Werra valley between Neustädt and Hörschel (359.13) and to the east and northeast into the natural area basin-shaped valley widening between Hörschel and Creuzberg (483.440).
Protected areas
On the Hessian mountain side are parts of the Kielforst nature reserve ( CDDA no. 318649; designated 1997; 28.98 hectares in size). There are also those of the fauna-flora-habitat area forests and limestone grasslands of the Ringgau- Südabdachung (FFH no. 4926-305; 15.6774 km² ). The FFH area Kielforst is located on the Thuringian mountain side to the northwest of Hörschel (FFH no. 4927-302; 99 ha).
history
The Hessian-Thuringian state border with a section of boundary stones from the 16th century has been running over the summit region of the Kielforst for centuries. During the Cold War it was part of the former inner-German border ; however, their death strip ran about 500 m east of the summit region; there was only a narrow border control route along today's border.
Others
The high areas of the Kielforst are forested, the lower areas are used for agriculture. There is a summit cross on the summit and a transmission mast / tower on the high elevations in the east . From the plateau-like summit region of Berges, with good visibility, you can look to the south-east of the Thuringian Forest with the Wartburg and the Großer Inselsberg and down into the Werra valley .
Traffic and walking
On the lower part the keel forestry southern flank runs the Bundesautobahn 4 with that in the (Western) Thuringian Gate located Hörschel Viaduct . Along the foot of the flank there and through the (western) Thuringian Gate - with a connection to the Herleshausen motorway junction created by a cul-de-sac - the road axis of state roads 3251 (Hesse) and 1017 (former federal road 7a ) (Thuringia) between Herleshausen and Hörschel . District road 16, which runs to Pferdsdorf (Thuringia), branches off directly north of the gate east of the mountain from the L 1017 . From there, north of the mountain, the K 18 leads northwest to Willershausen (Hesse). In the area of the mountain you can hike along the former column path of the former inner-German border - for example, starting near Pferdsdorf on the K 18.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Eichsfeldkreis, LK Nordhausen, Kyffhäuserkreis, Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 1. Erfurt 1999.
- ^ Hans-Jürgen Klink: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 112 Kassel. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 6.9 MB)