Nerother head

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Nerother head
Nerother head late winter afternoon from the west; at the foot of the mountain in the left center of the picture is the eponymous town of Neroth; the ruins of Freudenkoppe remain hidden under beeches

Nerother head late winter afternoon from the west; at the foot of the mountain in the left center of the picture is the eponymous town of Neroth ; the ruins of Freudenkoppe remain hidden under beeches
height 651.7  m above sea level NHN
location at Neroth ; Vulkaneifel district , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany )
Mountains Vulkaneifel ( Eifel )
Coordinates 50 ° 11 '38 "  N , 6 ° 45' 39"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 11 '38 "  N , 6 ° 45' 39"  E
Nerother Kopf (Rhineland-Palatinate)
Nerother head
Type Volcano - cinder cone
rock basalt
Age of the rock approx. 700,000 years
particularities Freudenkoppe castle ruins , millstone cave

The Nerother head in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate is 651.7  m above sea level. NHN high cone of an extinct volcano ( cinder cone ) near Neroth in the Eifel .

Geographical location

The Nerother Kopf rises in the Vulkaneifel Nature Park on the eastern edge of the Gerolsteiner Land. As part of its north tip, it is located around 1 km east-southeast of Neroth, 2.5 km west-southwest of Neunkirchen , 3.5 km west of Pützborn and 2 km (as the crow flies ) north of Oberstadtfeld . About 450 m from the north summit is the lower south summit. To the west past the mountain, the Kleine Kyll flows through Neroth .

Description and history

On the northern tip of the original distinctive double-volcano are under monument protection standing castle ruins Freudenkoppe (built 1337-1340) and the millstone cave . In the cave near the summit, whose entrance is at a point 643.2  m high, the Nerother Wandervogel was founded on New Year's Eve 1919/1920 .

The Nerother Kopf nature reserve around the beech- wooded north summit is a popular hiking and recreation area, made accessible, among other things, by the Eifelsteig , which leads directly over the summit. The southern knoll, which is not forested in the high areas, has been mined for basalt extraction for many years ; of this, the snow-covered edge of the excavation can be seen on the horizon to the right of the summit in the above photo.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )

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