Morsberg (Odenwald)
| Morsberg | ||
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 View from Hippelsbach to the south over the upper Gersprenztal to the towering Morsberg. From there the Kainsbach valley runs down to the Gersprenz. |
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| height | 516.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Kirch-Beerfurth , Odenwaldkreis , Hesse , Germany | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Dominance | 6.5 km → Kahlberg | |
| Notch height | 115 m ↓ transition from Rohrbach to Streitbach on the western slope of the Lärmfeuer | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 42 '27 " N , 8 ° 53' 57" E | |
| Topo map | LAGIS Hessen | |
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The Morsberg is 516.7 m above sea level. NHN high wooded mountain in the Kirch-Beerfurth district of the Reichelsheim community in the Odenwaldkreis in the Hessian Odenwald .
The Morsberg is a towering northwest corner pillar of the sandstone Odenwald on the border with the Vorderen Odenwald . With the mountain massifs of Neunkircher Höhe and Melibokus to the west of it, it is one of the northernmost Odenwald peaks, rising to a height of more than 500 meters. Its western and northern slopes drop steeply over an approximately 100-meter-high terrain step until the crystalline basement of the drum granite in the west and the Böllsteiner Odenwald in the north emerge. Due to its dense forest, it is not a scenic mountain. Nevertheless, it dominates the valley head of the Gersprenz lowland with a view from the north.
The ruins of the Beerfurther Schlösschen can be found a good 1 kilometer north-west of the summit on a mountain spur of the 404 m high Burgberg . Along the north flank, federal road 47, known as Nibelungenstrasse , climbs curvy in an easterly direction to the Spreng , the transition into the Mümlingtal . Beyond the Spreng is the 443.1 m high Heidelberg in the Böllstein area opposite the Morsberg. The Morsberg is the highest elevation of the natural spatial subunit 144.65 Wegscheidekamm in the sandstone Odenwald. The Wegscheidekamm ridge extends from here about 7 kilometers to the south over the 501.7 m high noise fire in the Ober-Mossau district to Hiltersklingen in the Streitbachtal .
The southeast slope of the Morsberg is the headwaters of the Mossau stream . This covers 59.7 kilometers over the Marbach and then the Mümling to the Main , 10 kilometers more than the spring water of the Mümling itself. The Morsberg also donates a series of short flowing waters to the Gersprenz river system . Starting in the southwest, these are the Steinbach (2.6 km), the creek at the Margrund (1.0 km), the creek von dem Vierstöck (2.3 km) and in the north the slightly longer Kainsbach (6.1 km) .
The closest localities are Kirch-Beerfurth in the northwest and Ober-Kainsbach in the north. which are each around 1.5 kilometers away. Rohrbach in the southwest and Ober-Mossau in the southeast are a little further away at 3 and 4 kilometers respectively.
The groves of the Morsbergs are characterized by a forest road developed that on the explosive branches off from the B 47, circling the summit region and north of Upper Mossau for country road L leads 3260th