Orenberg (Upland)
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 Aerial view: View over the Orenberg to the east with the |
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| height | 702 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Willingen ; District of Waldeck-Frankenberg , North Hesse ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Upland | |
| Coordinates | 51 ° 17 ′ 31 ″ N , 8 ° 37 ′ 17 ″ E | |
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| particularities | Location of the Orenbergschanzen | |
The Orenberg near Willingen in the Hessian district of Waldeck-Frankenberg is 702 m above sea level. NHN high elevation in the Upland , the northeastern foothills of the Rothaargebirge .
geography
location
The Orenberg is located in the northwest of North Hesse in the Diemelsee Nature Park, directly east-southeast of the Willingen core town . As a south-southeast neighbor of the Iberg ( 720.5 m ), it rises east of the Itter valley and west of its tributary Aarbach with the Eideler Berg on the other side of the brook , the approximately 700 m high southern foothills of the Lüerberg ( 713 m ).
Immediately southwest of the partially wooded mountain is the Willinger Viadukt ("The Viaduct", symbol of Willingen), built between 1914 and 1917 , on which the Uplandbahn crosses the Itter and the B 251 .
Natural allocation
The Orenberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Süderbergland (No. 33) in the main unit Rothaargebirge (with Hochsauerland ) (333) and in the subunit Upland (333.9) to the natural area Inneres Upland (333.90).
Orenbergschanzen
At the north-west foot of the Orenberg above the Ittertal on the outskirts of Willingen are the Orenbergschanzen (categories K 10, K 35 and K 45), the first of which was built in 1937 and which are especially used by young jumpers as training hills; they are also used as plastic covered hills .
About 2 km south of the Mühlenkopf near the Willingen district of Stryck is the Mühlenkopfschanze , which is mainly used for international competitions.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Martin Bürgener: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 111 Arolsen. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1963. → Online map (PDF; 4.1 MB)
- ↑ Orenbergschanzen , accessed on January 15, 2016, on skisprungschanzen.com