Southern Hochrhön
| Southern Hochrhön | ||
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 Dammersfeldkuppe |
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| Highest peak | Dammersfeldkuppe ( 927.9 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Bad Kissingen district , Bavaria , Rhön-Grabfeld district , Bavaria and Fulda district , Hesse | |
| Southern part of the | Hohen Rhön , Rhön | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 24 ' N , 9 ° 52' E | |
| surface | 161 km² | |
The Südliche Hochrhön , also called Südliche Hohe Rhön after the Environmental Atlas of Hessen , is a 5th order natural area, which together with the Central Rhön forms the Hohe Rhön . In this area there are several mountains over 900 meters high, including the Dammersfeldkuppe ( 927.9 m ), the Kreuzberg ( 927.8 m ) and the Eierhauckberg ( 909.9 m )
Natural structure
The term Südliche Hochrhön was defined as a natural area in 1968 in the context of the natural area breakdown 1: 200,000 (sheet 140 Schweinfurt) and assigned and structured as follows:
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(to 35 East Hessian mountains )
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(to 354 Hohe Rhön )
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354.0 Southern Hochrhön
- 354.00 Dammersfeld ridge (in the north and west of the area)
- 354.01 Black Mountains (in the south of the area)
- 354.02 Kreuzberg Group (in the east of the area)
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354.0 Southern Hochrhön
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(to 354 Hohe Rhön )
The Bavarian part of the southern Hochrhön covers about 148.67 km², the Dammersfeld ridge another 12.3 km² in Hesse.
Demarcation
In the east the Eastern South Rhön borders, in the southeast the Hammelburger Südrhön , both of which as part of the South Rhön and the Greater Region (3rd order) Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön are already part of the Southwest German level land (2nd order).
In the west are areas of the western and eastern Kuppenrhön , which is assigned to the front and Kuppenrhön . In the north is the Rhön headquarters , also assigned to the Hohen Rhön . Together with the Vorder- and Kuppenrhön, the Hohe Rhön belongs to the East Hessian highlands.
Natural space
Two mountain ridges go down from the Heidelstein to the south and southwest, which are separated by the Sinn . The south-western one is the Dammersfeld ridge, which forms a self-contained unit consisting mainly of basalt. The southward branch divides into the northern Kreuzberg group and the southern Black Mountains.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 140 Schweinfurt - Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1968 → online map (PDF, 4 MB).
- ↑ Natural areas of the main unit groups 23, 14 and 35 in the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government - Rhine-Main-Tiefland , Odenwald, Spessart, Südrhön and Rhön ( notes )
- ↑ Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hessen Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology