Nagelberg (Franconian Alb)
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_2014_(1).JPG) View over Kohlmühle (district of Treuchtlingen) west-northwest to the Nagelberg |
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| height | 541.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Treuchtlingen ; Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Franconian Alb | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 58 '5 " N , 10 ° 55' 30" E | |
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The Nagelberg is 541.7 m above sea level. NHN high, wooded mountain in the Franconian Alb low mountain range near the town of Treuchtlingen in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen .
geography
location
The mountain is located in a conservation area , about 2 km north-east of the old town of Treuchtlingen in Altmühltal . The Altmühl flows west of the mountain in a southerly direction. On the opposite side of the valley is the Patrich , which already belongs to the Hahnenkamm ridge , north of the mountain, the municipality boundary to the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria . In the northwest is the village of Graben , northeast of Dettenheim . The southernmost point of the Rhenan-Danubian watershed is located between Dettenheim and the summit of the Nagelberg . To the east of the mountain is the Schambachried nature reserve and about 2 km from the village of Schambach . Bundesstraße 2 runs in between . The Kästleinsmühlbach flows along the southern flank, on which are the Kohlmühle , Lehnleinsmühle , Kästleinsmühle and the nearby Weinbergshof . Gstadt is located west of the mountain on the opposite side of the Altmühl .
Natural allocation
The Nagelberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Alb (No. 08), in the main unit Southern Franconian Alb ( 082) and in the subunit Altmühlalb (082.2) to the natural area of the Treuchtlinger Pforte (082.21).
Others
On the mountain there is a field of funnel pits dating back to prehistoric times, on the southern flank there was a Roman villa rustica . The listed war cemetery on the Nagelberg is located on the western flank . Over 2,545 war victims from both world wars are buried on the cemetery, which was consecrated in 1961, on an area of around 0.8 hectares, making it the third largest war cemetery in Bavaria.
In the northern area on a plateau is the Hexentanzplatz , a barbecue area with a shelter. According to legend, witches from the area meet there on Walpurgis Night . There is a transmission mast just south of the summit . On the southwest slope, near the Weinbergshof, there is an elevated water tank . The structure, which was built in 1978 and renovated in 2018, includes two basins with a total of 2500 cubic meters of water. It makes the main contribution to the Treuchtlingen water supply.
Maps
- Map of the Nagelberg on Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
- Franz Tichy : Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 172 Nuremberg . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ Franz Tichy : Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ↑ Villa rustica (and others), in: Treuchtlingen , Bavarian Monument List (PDF; 169.95 kB)
- ↑ Stadtzeitung.de: “Elevated reservoir on the Nagelberg in Treuchtlingen inaugurated”, October 8, 2018