Sheep head (Haardt)
| Sheep head | ||
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 Summit of the Schafkopf |
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| height | 616.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | at Maikammer and Sankt Martin ; District of Südliche Weinstrasse , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Palatinate Forest ( Middle Palatinate Forest ) | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 18 '43 " N , 8 ° 2' 55" E | |
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The Schafkopf is 616.8 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Middle Palatinate Forest , a sub-region of the Palatinate Forest . The boundary of the municipalities of Maikammer and Sankt Martin in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Südliche Weinstrasse runs over the mountain . It is one of the mountains in the Palatinate Forest , the height of which exceeds the 600 m contour line .
geography
location
The Schafkopf rises in the Palatinate Forest-Vosges du Nord Biosphere Reserve and in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park . Its summit is 2.5 km west-southwest of the Kalmit summit ( 672.6 m ), as well as 4 km west-northwest of Sankt Martin and 6 km (as the crow flies ) west of Maikammer . The boundary of both communities runs across the summit region, and the summit is a few meters northwest of the border in the Maikammer district. The Schafkopf forms with the Rotsohlberg ( 607.1 m ) and the Morschenberg ( plate ; 608.3 m ) a ridge lying in the Middle Palatinate Forest on the eastern edge of the Haardt . The ridge is bounded in the northeast between Kalmit and Rotsohlberg by the Hüttenhohl mountain pass ( 476.9 m ), in the north by the Totenkopf mountain pass ( 513.7 m ) and in the southwest, beyond Morschenberg, by the Lolosruhe mountain pass ( 573.8 m ) .
On the south-eastern slope of the Schafkopf, the Kropsbach rises from the church spring and its small tributary Hüttenbach rises east-southeast of the mountain. To the south-southeast the landscape drops to the somewhat distant Triefenbach and to the west to the Argenbach .
Natural allocation
The Schafkopf belongs to the Palatinate Forest natural area, which is classified as a third-order Greater Region in the systematics of the handbook on the natural structure of Germany published by Emil Meynen and Josef Schmithüsen and its subsequent publications . If you look at the internal structure of the natural area , it belongs in particular to the Middle Palatinate Forest.
In summary, the natural spatial allocation of the sheep's head follows the following system:
- Greater region 1st order: Layer level land on both sides of the Upper Rhine Rift
- Greater region 2nd order: Palatinate-Saarland layer level land
- Greater region 3rd order: Palatinate Forest
- 4th order region (main unit): Middle Palatinate Forest (large part of the mountain with a summit)
- 5th order region: Haardt (eastern flank)
Traffic and walking
Totenkopfstraße runs east past the Schafkopf . Hiking trails marked by the Palatinate Forest Association lead over the ridge of Rotsohlberg, Schafkopf and Morschenberg from Totenkopf or Hüttenhohl to Lolosruhe , but they do not run over the peaks. A narrow hiking path leads over the summit along the border of Maikammer and Sankt Martin, on which a number of historical boundary stones are present.
Others
The Schafkopf is completely covered with mixed forest consisting mainly of pine and beech . Its summit is marked by a stone pyramid. In addition, there is one of the series of preserved boundary stones with the inscriptions S and M and 1822 on the present day boundary between Maikammer and Sankt Martin. To the east to south-east of the mountain, a forest and meadow area of around 41 hectares was fenced in for use as a sand meadow pond grazing project ; there were Heck cattle settled.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b LANIS: Topographical Map. Retrieved January 24, 2017 .
- ^ Federal Institute for Regional Studies: Geographical Land Survey. The natural space units in single sheets 1: 200,000 . Bad Godesberg 1952–1994. → Online maps , sheet 160: Landau i. d. Palatinate (Adalbert Pemöller, 1969; 47 pages)
- ↑ Helmut Beeger u. a .: The landscapes of Rheinhessen-Pfalz - naming and spatial delimitation. In: Reports on German regional studies , Volume 63, Issue 2, Trier, 1989, pp. 327–359