Morschenberg
| Morschenberg | ||
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 Summit area of the Morschenberg |
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| height | 608.3 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Kirrweiler ; District of Südliche Weinstrasse , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Middle Palatinate Forest , Palatinate Forest | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 18 '19 " N , 8 ° 2' 18" E | |
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The Morschenberg is 608.3 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Middle Palatinate Forest , a sub-region of the Palatinate Forest . It is located in the district of Kirrweiler in the Südliche Weinstrasse district in Rhineland-Palatinate . It is one of the 16 mountains in the Palatinate Forest, the height of which exceeds the 600 m mark. The summit is also called the plate .
geography
location
The Morschenberg is located in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord biosphere reserve and in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . Its summit rises as the crow flies 3.5 km southwest of the Kalmit summit ( 672.6 m ), 4.7 km west of Sankt Martin , 6.7 km west of Maikammer and 8.9 km west of Kirrweiler. The Morschenberg forms with the Schafkopf ( 616.8 m ) and the Rotsohlberg ( 607.1 m ) a ridge west of the Haardt , although the 600 m altitude mark is exceeded in the Palatinate Forest. The ridge is bordered in the north on the Rotsohlberg by the pass crossings Hüttenhohl and Totenkopf and in the south on the Morschenberg by the pass crossing Lolosruhe . The mountain is completely wooded with mixed forest mainly of pine and beech. At the summit there is a small stone pyramid and two topographical marker stones.
Natural allocation
The Morschenberg belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area, which is classified as a 3rd order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its subsequent publications . If you look at the internal structure of the natural area , it belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest.
In summary, the natural spatial allocation of the Morschenberg follows the following system:
- Greater region 1st order: Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
- Greater region 2nd order: Palatinate-Saarland layer level land
- Greater region 3rd order: Palatinate Forest
- 4th order region (main unit): Middle Palatinate Forest
Access and hiking
Hiking trails marked by the Palatinate Forest Association lead over the Rotsohlberg, Schafkopf and Morschenberg ridge from Totenkopf or Hüttenhohl to Lolosruhe , but they do not run over the peaks. The summit of the Morschenberg is about 30 m away from the hiking trail that runs over the mountain. The shortest access over less than a kilometer can be from the hiking car park at the Lolosruhe . Can continue to the mountain from the Edenkobener valley located Edenkobener hut at Hut wells over the tributary of Haselbach and in the saddle for Sheepshead located refuge St. Martiner be achieved Fronbaum.
Picture gallery
St. Martin Fronbaum
Morschenberg Fountain
Individual evidence
- ^ LANIS: Topographic Map. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Federal Institute for Regional Studies: Geographical Land Survey. The natural space units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps , sheet 160: Landau i. d. Palatinate (Adalbert Pemöller, 1969; 47 pages)
- ↑ Helmut Beeger u. a .: The landscapes of Rheinhessen-Pfalz - naming and spatial delimitation. In: Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, Issue 2, Trier, 1989, pp. 327–359
