Mooswaldkopf
| Mooswaldkopf | ||
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 Lookout tower on the Mooswaldkopf |
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| height | 879.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Baden-Württemberg | |
| Mountains | Middle Black Forest | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 14 ′ 28 " N , 8 ° 18 ′ 4" E | |
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| rock | Red sandstone | |
| particularities | Fohrenbühlturm ( AT ) | |
The Mooswaldkopf is 879.7 m above sea level. NHN one of the highest mountain peaks in the central Black Forest .
Regional and geographical importance
The Mooswaldkopf is counted as part of the Fohrenbühl pass . The border between the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg ran from 1805 on the Mooswaldkopf . Before that, the Mooswaldkopf belonged largely to the Schramberg rule . The Mooswaldkopf still forms the border between the municipality of Lauterbach (Black Forest) and Hornberg today .
Physical-geographical-geomorphological importance
Mooswaldkopf is probably a witness mountain of the Buntsandstein , which, together with the Hohenreutewald, the Moosenwald and the Moosenkapf, forms an amphitheater open to the east of the Buntsandstein mountains, which encompasses the western Sulzbachtal ( Lauterbach district ). Because of their characteristic coffin-like shape, these mountains are called the “red sandstone coffin lids” of the central Black Forest. Geographically, they are called the eastern red sandstone slabs and witness mountains of the central Black Forest. Whether the Sulzbach amphitheater is actually a witness mountain landscape or rather the relic of an island mountain has not been finally clarified.
The forests around the Mooswaldkopf are known among ecologists for their high percentage of holly ( Ilex aquifolium ), they are assigned to the fir-Ilex forests of the Black Forest.
Fohrenbühl tower
As the successor to a Mooswaldkopf observation tower built in 1905, today's 24 m high Fohrenbühlturm was inaugurated in 1924. The planning and construction management were entrusted to Paul Bonatz , the builder of the Stuttgart main station. From its viewing platform, the view extends far over the Middle Black Forest, the Swabian Alb , the Rhine plain and the Vosges . Next to the tower is the hosted hiking home of the Black Forest Association Gedächtnishaus Fohrenbühl .
