Blade head
| Blade head | ||
|---|---|---|
 Reconstructed foundations of the Klingenkopf stone tower |
||
| height | 682.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the Hochtaunuskreis , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 0.9 km → Kolbenberg | |
| Notch height | 12 m ↓ Klingenkopfweg | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 14 ′ 54 " N , 8 ° 30 ′ 11" E | |
|
||
The Klingenkopf (also Ringenkopf or Partridge Mountain ) is a mountain in the Taunus with 682.7 m above sea level. NHN . It represents the highest elevation in the urban area of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the Hochtaunus district in Hesse .
geography
location
The wooded Klingenkopf is located in the Taunus Nature Park . Its peak is located in the westernmost part of the urban area in a Waldexklave the district Bad Homburg, the district core through the forests of the district Dornholzhausen separately. The blade head is in the Taunus a southwest-northeast elongated ridge in the wake of the Taunus main ridge and has a northeast side top of the 690 meter high piston Bergs be seen. Another 850 m to the northeast, the Klingenkopf itself has a secondary peak, the Eichkopf , the height of which at a measuring point on the official maps is given as 620.2 m .
The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes runs over this part of the Taunus ridge , and the Klingenkopf lies halfway between the small fort Altes Jagdhaus in the southwest and the small fort Heidenstock in the northeast. At the summit are the foundations of a watchtower, which is known as the guard post 3/55 "Klingenkopf" in the course of the Limes between the small forts of the Altes Jagdhaus and Heidenstock . The course of the Limes is also followed by political borders in this section to this day. The urban area of Bad Homburg ends at the Limes and the municipal area of Neu-Anspach begins . Until 1972 this was also the border between the Obertaunuskreis and the district of Usingen and before that between the Duchy of Nassau and Hesse-Homburg .
Natural allocation
The blade head belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit Hoher Taunus (301) to the subunit Feldberg-Taunuskamm (301.3). The Klingenkopf is 3.7 km away from the Großer Feldberg , the highest Taunus summit.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohe Taunus, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , pp. 66–67