Horse head
| Horse head | ||
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_im_Winter_2016.jpg) View from the L 3307 between Poppenhausen and |
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| height | 874.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Poppenhausen ; District of Fulda , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Rhön | |
| Dominance | 0.4 km | |
| Notch height | 20 m | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 29 '29 " N , 9 ° 55' 16" E | |
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| rock | Basalt i. w. S. | |
The horse's head is an 874.9 m above sea level. NHN high southwest foothills of the Wasserkuppe ( 950 m ) in the Rhön . It is located near Poppenhausen in the Hessian district of Fulda and is of volcanic origin.
geography
location
The horse's head is located in the Hessian Rhön Nature Park and the Rhön Biosphere Reserve . Its summit is 1.9 km south of Abtsroda , 2.1 km north-west of Obernhausen , 4.5 km north of Gersfeld , 2.9 km north of Schachen , 3.1 km north-north-east of Maiersbach , 3.8 km east-north-east of Poppenhausen and 2.1 km southeast of Tränkhof (as the crow flies ); Immediately to the south-west are the Poppenhausen hamlets of Schwarzerden and Kohlstöcken . The neighboring mountains include the Wasserkuppe ( 950 m ) with the Abtsrodaer Kuppe ( 905 m ) in the northeast and the Eubeberg ( Eube ; approx. 820 m ) in the south.
The source of the Fulda tributary Lütter lies on the area between the horse's head and the ridge running east of it, which connects the Wasserkuppe in the north with the Eubeberg in the south ; this flows through the Guckaisee lying at the southern foot of the horse's head . Two small tributaries of the Lütter tributary Haardt arise on the north flank .
From the unwooded summit region of the Pferdskopf there is a wide view to the west, and to the northeast the view falls to the nearby Wasserkuppe. The Hochrhönring runs to the southwest .
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Natural allocation
The horse's head belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) to the main unit Hohe Rhön (354), subunit Hochrhön (354.1), natural area Wasserkuppenrhön (354.10). The landscape falls to the west into the natural area Milseburger Kuppenrhön (353.21), which is part of the main unit Vorder- und Kuppenrhön (353) to the subunit Kuppenrhön (353.2).
Good Friday stone
To the northeast of the horse's head summit is the remainder of a basalt chimney, the 863 m high Good Friday Stone , which, in addition to Lerchenküppel and Steinküppel, is also called Würtenstein or Wurtenstein according to folklore due to the local desert (→ History section ) . Tradition has it that it was given the name Good Friday Stone because the rock formation rotates three times on its own axis when the church bells ring on Good Friday.
geology
The reason for the existence of the mountain are basaltoid rocks of volcanic corridors , which run vertically through a layered landscape of terrestrial sand , silt and claystones of the middle red sandstone . Hikers can find out more about the rocks in the area and their formation on the geological nature trail that leads from the horse's head to the water dome to the northeast .
history
The former name of the horse's head was horse mountain. Near the Karfreitagsstein , in an “inhospitable area” is the Wirrtenstein desert (also called “Wörthenstein”). In 1625 there were five “traditionally inhabited” farmsteads, owned as a fief by the Lords of Steinau called Steinrück and belonging to the parish of Poppenhausen . This hillside settlement, originally founded to secure the border for the abbey of Fulda , was only half inhabited in 1714. It was "no longer to be lived in because of the bad and bad unsituated orths [...]" and was finally given up completely in the same year.
Protected areas
Parts of the Hessian Rhön landscape protection area ( CDDA no. 378477; designated 1967; 410.1096 km² in size), the fauna-flora-habitat area Hochrhön (FFH no. 5525-351; 48.09 km²) and of the bird sanctuary Hessische Rhön (VSG No. 5425-401; 360.8013 km²).
See also
literature
- Michael Mott : Cross with history - in two days the wooden cross on the horse's head will celebrate its 75th birthday, the memorial for the fallen was frowned upon in the Third Reich. In: Fuldaer Zeitung , July 4, 1991, p. 12.
- Michael Mott: Life at the foot of the horse head and Eube - home book of the Rhön community Rodholz : community Poppenhausen (Wasserkuppe). Self-published , Fulda 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Hessian Geotope of the Year 2014 - Der Lerchenküppel , accessed on September 21, 2015, on hlug, de, (PDF; 1.23 MB)
- ↑ Karfreitagsstein , in the Rhönlexikon, accessed on September 21, 2015, from rhoen.info