Morsberg

The title of this article is ambiguous. From 1915 to 1918, Morsberg was also the name of the French commune of Marimont-lès-Bénestroff in the Moselle department.

Morsberg
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height	466.4  m above sea level NN
location	District of Fulda , Hessen , Germany
Mountains	Rhön ( Hessian skittles )
Coordinates	50 ° 42 '55 "  N , 9 ° 51' 33"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 42 '55 "  N , 9 ° 51' 33"  E
rock	basalt
particularities	Former location of the von Morsberg castle

The Morsberg is 466.4  m above sea level. NN high mountain of the Hessian bowling game (sometimes called "Waldstifteköpf"), part of the Rhön low mountain range in Bavaria , Hesse and Thuringia ( Germany ) .

Geographical location

The Morsberg is the lowest of the nine peaks that belong to the Hessian bowling game, within the Fulda district . In the Hessian Rhön Nature Park and also in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve , its basalt dome rises 2.75 km (as the crow flies ) west of the center of the municipality of Rasdorf .

Part of the Hünfeld- Rasdorf section of the B 84 runs across the south-east flank of the wooded mountain in a south-west-north-east direction .

history

From the beginning of the 13th century to the middle of the 16th century the castle of the von Morsberg stood on the Morsberg. This knight dynasty temporarily provided the Vogt of the Rasdorfer Stift.

See also

• List of mountains in the Rhön

literature

• Erwin Sturm : Rasdorf. History and art . Parzeller, Fulda 1971, ( Fuldaer Geschichtsblätter 47, 1971, No. 1/3, ISSN  0016-2612 ), p. 22.