Mittelberg

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Mittelberg
height 801  m above sea level NHN
location near Willingen , Waldeck-Frankenberg district , Hesse ( Germany )
Mountains Upland ( Rothaar Mountains )
Dominance 0.47 km →  Hegekopf
Notch height 25 m ↓  to the Hegekopf
Coordinates 51 ° 16 '34 "  N , 8 ° 35' 0"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 16 '34 "  N , 8 ° 35' 0"  E
Mittelberg (Hesse)
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The Mittelberg near Willingen is 801  m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Rothaargebirge in the Waldeck-Frankenberg district in North Hesse ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The Mittelberg is located in the Upland , the northeast part of the Rothaargebirge, in the Diemelsee Nature Park . Its summit rises almost 1.5 km south of Willingen -Hoppern. From the summit it is just under 1,050 m (each as the crow flies ) in a south-westerly direction to the border with North Rhine-Westphalia and thus to the Hochsauerlandkreis . The wooded mountain is passed on its western flank by the upper reaches of the Hoppecke and on the eastern flank by its tributary Ruthenaar .

The neighboring mountains of Mittelberg include Ettelsberg ( 837.7  m ) in the east, Mühlenkopf (approx.  815  m ) in the east-south-east, Hegekopf ( 842.9  m ) in the south-south-east, Clemensberg (approx.  837  m ) in the south-south-west and, each on the other side of the Hoppecketals, Langenberg ( 843.2  m ) in the west and Hoppernkopf ( 805  m ) in the north-northwest.

Natural allocation

The Mittelberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33), in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Winterberger Hochland (333.5) to the natural area Langenberg (333.58). The landscape falls to the north into the Inner Upland (333.90) natural area , part of the Upland subunit (333.9).

Individual evidence

  1. a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. →  Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)