Neunkircher Höhe
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 View from Raidelbach northeast to Neunkircher Höhe |
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| height | 605 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Gadernheim , Neunkirchen and Laudenau ; Bergstrasse district and Darmstadt-Dieburg district and Odenwald district , Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Dominance | 33.8 km → Katzenbuckel | |
| Notch height | 332 m ↓ Gumpener Kreuz | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 43 '8 " N , 8 ° 46' 13" E | |
| Topo map | LAGIS Hessen | |
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| particularities | - highest mountain in the Vorderen Odenwald - Kaiserturm ( AT ) - Radar tower Neunkircher Höhe |
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The Neunkircher Höhe is 605 m above sea level. NHN the highest mountain in the Hessian part of the Odenwald and in the natural area of the Vorderer Odenwald . Your peak lies in the district of Lautertaler hamlet Gadernheim in the circle mountain road . Slopes belong to the district of Darmstadt-Dieburg and Odenwaldkreis . Neunkirchen , which is adjacent to the north, gives the mountain its name.
The Kaiserturm observation tower and the Neunkircher Höhe radar tower are on the mountain . The Neunkircher Höhe ski area used to be located there .
Surname
As with the naming of the Odenwald, the researchers argue about where the name Neunkirchen comes from. On the one hand there is the tradition that supposedly there were nine complete churches or places of worship at some point. So far, however, there are no findings that support this thesis. The other assumption is more in the real range. At peak times (after major wars, for example) nine parishes are said to have moved to Neunkirchen, as it was the only place that had a still intact church. And since all the congregations stated that it was their church, there were nine congregations and, as it was called in old German, nine churches.
geography
location
The Neunkircher Höhe is located in the Vorderen Odenwald . It forms an approximately 2 km long and wooded mountain ridge in the Bergstrasse district and Darmstadt-Dieburg district. At its northeast end is the eponymous district of the Modautal district of Neunkirchen (district of Darmstadt-Dieburg), 1.6 km north of the summit . Its summit region and the western slope belong to the municipality of Lautertal (Bergstrasse district) with the district of Gadernheim 2.1 km to the west (Bergstrasse district). The high elevations of the eastern slope are part of the urban area of Lindenfels with the demarcation of the Winterkasten district (Bergstrasse district) located 1.8 km south-southeast of the summit . Below this is the urban area of Reichelsheim with the district of Laudenau (Odenwaldkreis) located 2.5 km east of the summit . Other places close to the mountains are the Lindenfels district of Kolmbach in the south-west and the Modautal district of Brandau in the north-west.
On the western slope of the mountain, the Lauter rises south of the mountain spurs Westergiebel ( 526.5 m ) and Gehrenstein ( 555 m ) , on the north side of the mountain saddle between the two spurs the Modau and on the eastern slope with the Mergbach (Gersprenz spring ) the main source stream of the Gersprenz .
On the eastern slope are the Ludwigsfelsen (approx. 565 m ), and a little south of it is the Eleonorenklinik (approx. 490 m ). Except for the flanks, two spatially separated parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area beech forests of the front Odenwald extend in the northwest and east to northeast (FFH No. 6218-302; 37.054 km² ).
Natural allocation
The Neunkircher Höhe belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön (No. 14), in the main unit Vorderer Odenwald (145) to the subunit Neunkircher-Höh-Odenwald (145.6).
Towers
Imperial Tower
On the summit of the Neunkircher Höhe, a 24 m high observation tower was built in 1888 , which was knocked down in a storm night in 1904. The successor building is the 34 m high imperial tower, which was built in 1906/07 on the Gadernheim district. In the tower is "the highest economy" of the Odenwald; The tower can only be climbed during their opening times on the weekend. From the viewing platform you can see the Odenwald, the Palatinate and across Frankfurt am Main to the Taunus .
Radar tower at Neunkircher Höhe
The parabolic antenna of an SRE-M system on top of the MSSR Neunkircher Höhe radar tower is clearly visible from Bergstrasse ( ⊙ ; 592 m ; MSSR = Monopulse Secondary Surveillance Radar ; see also secondary radar ). Each of these six systems nationwide has a detection radius of around 145 NM ( nautical miles ), which corresponds to around 268.5 km. The system is used to monitor the southwestern German airspace and was previously staffed by German Air Traffic Control (DFS). The facility was built in 1962 and was manned around the clock until the end of the 1990s. Then it was switched to unmanned operation. The information is transmitted via radio relay to the DFS in Langen and via its own earth line to the control centers in Karlsruhe and Maastricht . Employees only come to the tower for repair and maintenance work. So that the residents are not disturbed by the noise from the antenna, the tower is built into the forest and is hardly visible in the immediate vicinity.
Transmission tower / antenna mast
A transmission tower / antenna mast ( ⊙ ) is located a little west of the air line between the Kaiserturm and the radar tower .
leisure
hike
The northern variant ( Donnersberg - Lautertaler Felsenmeer - Königstuhl ) of the European long-distance hiking trail E8 runs over the Neunkircher Höhe . The Alemannenweg runs as a 144 km long circular and rated hiking trail coming from Erbach over the mountain, through Bensheim-Auerbach , past Frankenstein Castle and the fortress Otzberg back into the Mümling valley to Michelstadt-Steinbach . There are many cultural and historical sights along the way.
Neunkircher Höhe ski area
The small Neunkircher Höhe ski area used to be operated on the mountain ; since the winter of 2009/2010 is his ski lift , "for reasons of cost" , no longer in operation. It had a flat and wide slope for skiers and tobogganists with a floodlight system. The 350 m long lift served the slope at an altitude of 470 to 530 m . An earlier backpack lift , which was 300 m long, was dismantled.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Dominances and VIPs ( Memento from October 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), highrisepages.de
- ↑ Otto Klausing: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 151 Darmstadt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
- ↑ Echo online from May 29, 2013: Aiming high for a rare outlook ( Memento from November 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ The Great Falk Atlas - Germany Detailed Maps , M = 1: 200,000, 2004/2005, ISBN 9783827903815
- ↑ a b Neunkircher Höhe ski area , on skiresort.de
- ↑ Skilift in Neunkirchen is about to end ( page can no longer be accessed , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dated December 9, 2009, accessed on July 28, 2010, at echo-online.de
Web links
- Panorama from the Kaiserturm (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net