Margrave Forest

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Margrave Forest
height 584.5  m above sea level NHN
location Baden-Wuerttemberg , Germany
Mountains Odenwald
Dominance 4.6 km →  Katzenbuckel
Notch height 74 m ↓  Langenstrich land district between Waldkatzenbach and Waldbrunn holiday village
Coordinates 49 ° 28 '36 "  N , 9 ° 6' 24"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 28 '36 "  N , 9 ° 6' 24"  E
Markgrafenwald (Baden-Württemberg)
Margrave Forest

The Markgrafenwald is 584.5  m above sea level. NHN high wooded mountain in the Odenwald in the Mülben district of the Waldbrunn community in the Neckar-Odenwald district in Baden-Württemberg . It is the fourth highest mountain in the Odenwald and after the Katzenbuckel ( 626  m ) the second highest mountain in the Neckar-Odenwald district.

The Margrave Forest is located in the southeast of the Buntsandstein-Odenwald , where the plateau between Waldbrunn, Amorbach and Buchen, known as the winter breath , unites a number of the highest Odenwald peaks , especially in its southwest, around the Katzenbuckels.

In the Margrave Forest, a densely wooded branch of around four kilometers from the ridge line of the plateau culminates in a north-westerly direction. To the south-west the branch drops off steeply to the Höllbach and in the north and north-east just as steeply to the Reisenbach . on the other side of the Reisenbach, only a good three kilometers to the north, lies the next highest peak of the Winterhauchs, the Hart ( 581  m ).

The summit of the Markgrafenwald is about 1.3 km north of Mülben and can be reached from this 497  m high place via the Markgrafenstraße . A good 2 km northwest of the summit and a few hundred meters before the end of the plateau, which is expressly named in the official maps as a breath of winter and as a secondary summit of the Markgrafenwald a height of 544.5  m above sea level. When you reach NHN , you will find the Max-Wilhelmshöhe hunting lodge .

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )