Roßkopf (Taunus)
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 Taunus ridge with Roßkopf (middle right) |
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| height | 635 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Bad Homburg vor der Höhe ; Hochtaunuskreis , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Dominance | 1.62 km | |
| Notch height | 37 m | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 15 '32 " N , 8 ° 31' 52" E | |
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| particularities | - Roßkopf ring wall - Hessenpark open-air museum - Saalburg - Roman fort Altes Jagdhaus - transmitter |
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The Roßkopf is about 635 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Taunus . With its summit location in the municipality of Wehrheim , it is close to the core town of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in the Hessian Hochtaunus district .
On the top of the mountain is the Roßkopf ring wall and within it there is a transmitter , and the Hessenpark open-air museum , the Saalburg and the Roman fort Altes Jagdhaus are in the vicinity .
geography
location
The Roßkopf rises in the Taunus Nature Park . Its summit is 5.7 km south-south-west of the core town of Wehrheim and 2.5 km south-south-west of its district Obernhain as well as 6.5 km north-west of the core town of Bad Homburg vor der Höhe and 4.5 km north-west of its district Dornholzhausen .
The Roßkopf is the only significant elevation ( dominance 1620 m, prominence 37 m) in the long Taunus ridge between the Saalburg Pass ( 414 m ) near the Saalburg in the north-east and the Sandplacken ( 669 m ) near the Roman fort Altes Jagdhaus in the south-west. The ridge heels Kieshübel ( 632.8 m ), Hollerkopf ( 615.5 m ) and Weißestein ( 550.7 m ) as well as the neighboring Waldkuppe Einsiedler ( 606.6 m ) to the south-west are to be added to the Roßkopf . In the southeast, the Roßkopf forms a large, steeply sloping shoulder, the Herzberg ( 591.4 m ) with a lookout tower and inn. On the eastern flank of the Herzberg, higher rock ribs come to light on the charming marble stone.
About 1000 m south-south-west of the mountain peak rises in a striking valley basin on Habigsborn with the Heuchelbach, a source stream of the Nidda tributary Eschbach . The Hessenpark open-air museum is located at the foot of the wide northern flank .
Natural allocation
The Roßkopf belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit Hoher Taunus (301) to the subunit Feldberg-Taunuskamm (301.3), which is connected to the subunit Winterstein-Taunuskamm (301.4) in the northeast . To the southeast, the landscape falls into the subunit Homburger Vortaunus (300.3) and to the south into the natural area Kronberger Taunusfuß (300.21) belonging to the subunit Altkönig Vorstufe (300.2) , each of which belongs to the main unit Vortaunus (300). To the north it leads into the sub-unit Usinger Basin (302.5) and approximately to the west into the sub-unit Pferdskopf-Taunus (302.6), both of which belong to the main unit Eastern Hintertaunus (302).
Mountain height and summit region
The Roßkopf is about 635 m high according to the top contour line . Its elongated summit ridge with a point 632.4 m high, measured near the summit, is located in the municipal area of Wehrheim. The summit region is made up of dense coniferous forest. The Upper Germanic-Raetian Limes ran over the ridge . Among other things, the foundations of a watchtower can be found here. Today there is a small transmitter on the mountain.
Traffic and walking
The federal road 456 leads past the Roßberg in the northeast between Usingen and Dornholzhausen over the Saalburg pass near the Saalburg and in the southwest between Schmitten and Oberursel over the Sandplacken at the Roman fort Altes Jagdhaus the state road 3004.
The mountain can be reached with little difference in altitude over the Taunus main ridge from the southwest from Sandplacken. The climb, which is most recommendable because of its lighter deciduous forests, steeper relief and the delightful vantage point on the Marmorstein , comes from the northeast from the inn (392 m) at Kastell Saalburg via König-Wilhelms-Weg, Marmorstein and Herzberg. The European long-distance hiking trail E1 and the Limes hiking trail run along the ridge .
See also
Individual evidence
literature
- Hermin Herr: Lexikon vom Hohe Taunus, 1993, ISBN 3-7829-0437-0 , pp. 94–95, 182
Web links
- Directory of the summits in the Taunus by dominance and prominence , on thehighrisepages.de