Millstone
| Millstone | ||
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| height | 607.2 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Districts of Kassel and Göttingen ; North Hesse , South Lower Saxony ; Germany | |
| Mountains | Kaufunger Forest | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 18 '18 " N , 9 ° 46' 4" E | |
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The mill stone is 607.2 m above sea level. NHN is the third highest mountain in the Kaufunger Forest and is a border mountain of the Kassel district in northern Hesse and the Göttingen district in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).
geography
location
The millstone is 1.6 km southeast of the mountain pass Umschwang , 6.75 km east of the community Nieste and nearly 3.25 km ( straight line ) southwest of Kleinalmerode , a western suburb of Witzenhausen .
On the winding border in the area of the wooded Mühlenstein lies north Hesse in the east and south Lower Saxony in the west; the mountain peak rises almost 100 m southeast of it in Hesse. Part of the border of the geo-nature park Frau-Holle-Land ( Werratal.Meißner.Kaufunger Wald ; Hessen) to the nature park Münden (Lower Saxony) runs along this border , whereby its summit belongs to the first-mentioned nature park.
The house ridge is the elongated west-southwest foothills of the Mühlenstein and the Gütersberg (in the Hessian real estate cadastre with the field name Gündersberg , in Lower Saxony with the field name Günters-Berg ), over which the Hessian-Lower Saxony border runs, its considerably shorter northern extension. The even shorter east-northeast branch of the Mühlenstein is in the Hessian real estate cadastre with the field name Hausfirst .
The north-western neighboring mountain of the Mühlenstein is the Haferberg ( 580.4 m ) and its southeastern neighboring mountain is the Bilstein ( 641.2 m ). With the Haferberg the mill stone over the pass is Umschwang ( 446 m ) connected with the Bilstein on a Gebörne partly over 600 m high ridge .
On the northern slope of the Mühlenstein, at its western transition to Gütersberg on the Lower Saxony-Hessian state border, is the highest point in Lower Saxony outside the Harz, at a height of 585 m .
Natural allocation
The Mühlenstein belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) and in the main unit Fulda-Werra-Bergland (357) to the natural areas Kaufunger Wald-Hochfläche (Vorderer Kaufunger Wald) (357.71) in the west and Hinterer Kaufunger Wald (357.72) in the East; the border between the two natural areas belonging to the Kaufunger Wald and Söhre subunit (357.7) runs roughly in the shape of a horseshoe to the east around its summit region.
Watershed
About the Mühlestein a portion extending watershed between Fulda in the west and Werra in the northeast, because all of the region of the mountain westward flowing streams, such as near the Umschwang springing Wenge Bach, accessible via the Nieste the Fulda, while all extending in the north-east directions about Strive towards the Hungershaus- or Wilhelmshäuser Bach of the Werra.
Weyland Memorial
Approximately 200 m north-northeast, slightly located below the mill stone summit to approximately 580 m altitude, the Weyland-monument that with inscription reminiscent of Franz Weyland, who here on April 20, 1913 in his first balloon ride in a thunderstorm crashed and whose body was only found there on April 27 of the same year.
hike
You can reach the Mühlenstein, to which there are no roads, for example during a hike that begins at the Umschwang on the Frau-Holle-Path , which passes its summit about 700 m to the southwest; A path branches off from this path to the summit.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ 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)