Cow bed
| Cow bed | ||
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 The cow bed (in the middle), on the right behind the Stückelberg |
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| height | 525.6 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Schwickershausen ; District of Limburg-Weilburg , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 6.31 km → Wolf Club | |
| Notch height | 88 m ↓ | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 '42 " N , 8 ° 19' 40" E | |
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The cow bed is 525.6 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the Taunus low mountain range . It is located near Schwickershausen in the Hessian district of Limburg-Weilburg .
Naming
The name of the mountain "Kuhbett" goes back to a shady valley in the Hasselbacher district on the east side of the elevation. There, when the name was given, the cows were probably grazed in the shadow of the ridge.
geography
location
The cow bed rises in the eastern Hintertaunus in the Taunus nature park in the area of the Bad Camberg city forest. The summit is 2.7 km northeast of Schwickershausen (to Bad Camberg), 1.7 km southwest of Hasselbach (to Weilrod ) and 2 km (as the crow flies ) northwest of the Eichelbacher Hof . The border between the town of Bad Camberg and the community of Weilrod runs over the northern flank of the wooded elevation.
The cow bed is part of the Feldberg-Langhals-Pferdskopf-Scholle of the eastern Hintertaunus, which separates the Emsbach valley from the Weil valley. It is the highest main mountain in the north-west of this high block .
Natural allocation
The cow bed belongs to the natural area of the main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit of Eastern Hintertaunus (302) to the natural area of Pferdskopf-Taunus (302.6). The landscape slopes from southwest to west into the natural area Steinfischbacher Hintertaunus (302.7).
Eichelbacher Hof
A few kilometers from the Kuhbett car park , on the way towards Riedelbach , a little off the Rennstrasse is the Eichelbacher Hof , a well-preserved manor house from 1568. Today, the Eichelbacher Hof is a hiking inn in an idyllic location and invites you to take a break. This formerly fortified courtyard of the Lords of Reinberg is actually a castle. The preserved mansion was once the east wing of a four- tower Renaissance castle.
Traffic and walking
To the south, past the crest of the Kuhbetts, in its section from Schwickershausen, past Hasselbach to Rod an der Weil, the winding state road 3030, on which the Kuhbett car park is located at 452 m above sea level. From there, many sporting activities are possible, including on the Rennstrasse hiking trail in a wooded landscape.
Kuhbett wind farm
In September 2015, a 141.5 m high wind measuring mast from Dunoair Windparkplanung GmbH from Rees was erected near the summit on the western slope of the Kuhbett for a period of 12 months .
In February 2017, the construction work for the erection of 4 wind turbines (WT) of the type Enercon E115 from the manufacturer Enercon , with a maximum height of 207 m began. Two wind turbines (4 and 6) are being built in the immediate vicinity of the summit. WEA 5 directly below the summit plateau . The fourth (WEA 1) about 900 m to the west. One of the six originally planned wind turbines (wind turbine 3) was not approved. This is located in the protective radius of the Taunus radio beacon near Limbach . Another plant (wind turbine 2) is still in the approval process. DunoAir from Rees acted as project developer and general contractor .
On December 27, 2017, two wind turbines (WEA 1 and 6) were put into operation. Wind turbines 4 and 5 went into operation in spring 2018. For the not yet approved wind turbines 2 and 3, Dunoair should receive a decision in early 2019.
As is usual with such wind energy projects in forest landscapes, at the beginning of February 2017 larger forest areas were deforested for the 4 wind turbines with the use of wood harvesters and then cleared . Furthermore, the outgoing existing forest paths for the transport of the building materials and plant components were converted into construction roads , and the underground cables to the individual wind turbines were laid to the side of the construction roads .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b summit in the Taunus according to dominance and prominence , on highrisepages.de
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Cow bed wind measurement mast - project description , accessed on September 9, 2017, on dunoair.com
- ↑ a b Nassauische Neue Presse from January 12th, 2017, author Petra Hackert: clearing on the “cow bed” by the end of February - wind farm is to go online this year , accessed on August 30, 2017, on nnp.de
- ↑ Taunuszeitung from October 10, 2016, author Alexander Schneider: Wind power in Bad Camberg: Why instead of six there could only be five wind turbines at the end of the cow bed , accessed on February 2, 2018, at tz-usingen.de
- ↑ Nassauische Neue Presse of August 16, 2012: INFO The “Taunus” rotary radio beacon ( memento of October 15, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on October 15, 2017, at nnp.de
- ↑ Usinger Anzeiger from 09.27.2017, author Horst-Walter Schwager: Wind power: The “Kuhbett” wind farm on the Hochtaunus / Limburg-Weilburg district border is growing , accessed on October 15, 2017, on usinger-anzeiger.de
- ↑ Project list of the Kuhbett wind farm for the wind farm set up by DunoAir , accessed on August 30, 2017 at dunoair.com
- ↑ Kuhbett wind farm on the DunoAir network , accessed on February 2, 2018, on dunoair.com
- ↑ Kuhbett wind farm project status, accessed on April 19, 2019, on dunoair.com
Web links
- Panoramic view of the cow bed in the Hintertaunus , on wetterzentrale.de
- Winter landscape on the cow bed , on wetterzentrale.de
- Citizens' initiative Rennstrasse , on bi-rennstrasse.de
- Summit in the Taunus for dominance and prominence , on thehighrisepages.de