Rödlasberg (Upper Palatinate hill country)

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Rödlasberg
height 579  m above sea level NN
location Bavaria , Germany
Mountains Upper Palatinate hill country
Coordinates 49 ° 35 '13 "  N , 11 ° 57' 7"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 35 '13 "  N , 11 ° 57' 7"  E
Rödlasberg (Upper Palatinate hill country) (Bavaria)
Rödlasberg (Upper Palatinate hill country)

The Rödlasberg (also: The mountain or Lattenhöhe ) is 579  m above sea level. NN high elevation in the Upper Palatinate hill country in the north of the municipality of Hirschau near the village of Massenricht in the district of Amberg-Sulzbach in Bavaria .

origin of the name

The Rödlasberg is named after the hamlet Rödlas to the north of the summit . The name Rödlas indicates a clearing.

geography

Geographical location

The Rödlasberg is located in the northern municipality of the city of Hirschau . The Rödlasberg can be reached via two branches in and at the village of Massenricht via the village of Rödlas . Massenricht can be reached from Hirschau via Ehenfeld after seven kilometers via the AS 18 district road or after six kilometers via secondary roads from Kohlberg . From Freihung you can reach Rödlas via the AS 18 via Elbart after about five kilometers.

Natural allocation

The Rödlasberg is located in the north of the Upper Palatinate hill country . Since sheet 154/155 Bayreuth of the single sheets 1: 200,000 for the manual of the natural spatial structure of Germany has not been published, there is no detailed breakdown for the northern part of the Upper Palatinate hill country .

In relevant specialist literature, the geological subunit in which Rödlas is located is referred to as the Kohlberger ridges .

Culture and sights

Buildings

Rödlaser mountain hut

Rödlaser mountain hut

The Rödlaser Berghütte on Rödlasberg is owned by the local group of the Upper Palatinate Forest Association . The hut , as the Rödlaser mountain hut is called by the locals, is frequented primarily by recreational guests and hikers who use the hiking trails in the area .

Rödlasturm

Rödlasturm

The Rödlasturm is a 32 meter high observation tower at 570  m above sea level. NN . Like the mountain hut, the tower was built by the local mass judge group of the Upper Palatinate Forest Association. When the weather is clear, it offers a view of the two basalt cones Parkstein and Rauher Kulm , to the east of the Czech Republic, to the south of Hirschau with Monte Kaolino and Schnaittenbach and to the west of the mountains of Franconian Switzerland . Because of its exposed location, the observation tower is also used as an antenna location.

Economy and Infrastructure

The Rödlasberg is a starting point for numerous hiking trails, e.g. B. the east line of the Main-Donau-Weg , the Wallenstein-Tilly-Weg or the Naab-Vils-Weg .

Furthermore, two circular hiking trails signposted by the AOVE lead over the Rödlasberg. These are the 16-kilometer-long Hirschau tower path and the 12-kilometer tower path.

Individual evidence

  1. a b Dr. Dietrich-Jürgen Manske : The Amberg Sulzbach district in the mirror of the times . S. 9–46 ( heimatforschung-regensburg.de [PDF]).
  2. ^ Franz Bogner: In the valley of Vils and Lauterach Verlag Friedrich Pustet, Regensburg 2001, p. 23, ISBN 3-7917-1755-3 .
  3. ^ Dietrich Jürgen Manske: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 164 Regensburg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1981, pp. 53–54. →  Online map (PDF; 4.8 MB)
  4. ^ Stefan Glaser, Gertrud Keim, Georg Loth, Andreas Veit, Barbara Bessler-Veit, Ulrich Lagally: Geotopes in the Upper Palatinate . Ed .: Bavarian State Office for the Environment. 1st edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-940009-92-0 , pp. 47 .
  5. Massenricht , aerial photos of the northern Upper Palatinate
  6. Directions to the Hirschau Tower Trail