Schimmelkopf
| Schimmelkopf (Weiskircher Höhe) |
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.jpeg) Schimmelkopf wind farm |
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| height | 694.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Weiskirchen ; Saarland , border with Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Black Forest high forest | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 35 '21 " N , 6 ° 48' 21" E | |
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| particularities | second highest elevation in Saarland | |
The Schimmelkopf or Weiskircher Höhe rises in the Hunsrück part of the Black Forest high forest on the border of the districts of Trier-Saarburg in Rhineland-Palatinate (north) and Merzig-Wadern in Saarland (south) and is 694.8 m above sea level. NHN the second highest mountain in Saarland ( Germany ).
geography
location
The Schimmelkopf rises in the southwest part of the Black Forest high forest. Its summit is in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park , which extends into Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, 3.7 km southeast of the Manderner core town and 3.3 km south of the Waldweiler core town (both in Rhineland-Palatinate) and 4.8 km north the Weis Kirchener core local and 3.7 km north-west of Waderner hamlet Steinberg (both in Saarland). The north-eastern mountain neighbor is the Teufelskopf ( 695 m ) in Rhineland-Palatinate .
Natural allocation
The Schimmelkopf belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Hunsrück (No. 24), in the main unit Hoch- and Idarwald (242) and in the subunit Black Forest high forest (242.0) to the natural area Greimerather Hochwald (242.00).
Flowing waters
The Ruwer tributary Burkelsbach rises north of the Schimmelkopf and the Siebenbornbach stream to the west , whose water flows through the Winkelbach into the Burkelsbach. To the west-southwest lies the source of the Holzbach and on the southern flank that of its tributary Schlittentaler Bach. On the southern slope of the transition area to the Teufelskopf, the Kübelbach rises in the east, which feeds the Wahnbach flowing southeast of the Schimmelkopf .
Second highest mountain in Saarland
In the 20th century, Dollberg and Schimmelkopf (Weiskircher Höhe) were considered to be the highest elevations in the Saarland, with a value of 695 m in full meters . According to precise measurements by the State Office for Cadastre, Surveying and Mapping in 2005, the Schimmelkopf is 694.8 m, 0.6 m lower than the Dollberg, making it the second highest elevation in Saarland. However, neither the Dollberg's name nor its claimed height of 695.4 m can be found on official maps.
| Dollberg and Schimmelkopf in the map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation | ||||||
| Dollberg | Schimmelkopf | |||||
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| scale | Surname | Measuring point | height | Surname | Measuring point | height |
| 1: 200,000 | without | without | without | without | without | 695 m |
| 1: 100,000 | Dollberge (mountain range) | With | 695 m | without | without | 695 m |
| 1: 50,000 | Dollberge (mountain range) | With | 695 m | without | With | 695 m |
| 1: 25,000 | Dollberge (mountain range) | With | 695 m | Schimmelkopf | With | 695 m |
| 1: 10,000 | Dollberge (mountain range) | without | without | Schimmelkopf | With | 694.8 m |
| 1: 5,000 | Dollberge (mountain range) | without | without | Schimmelkopf | With | 694.8 m |
Protected areas
Parts of the nature reserve (NSG) Oberes Wahnbachtal ( CDDA -Nr. 318896; designated 2002; 46.45 hectares ) and Unteres Wahnbachtal-Kirmesbruch (CDDA-Nr. 166027; 1987; 58.37 hectares) extend to the southeastern slopes of the Schimmelkopf . , with the exception of the south-western slopes of the NSG Holzbachtal (CDDA no. 163779; 1990; 58.43 ha). On the Weiskirchen side there are parts of the forest landscape protection area from Saarschleife via Mettlach to Steinberg and Lösterwald east of Wadrill (CDDA no. 390144; 1952; 37.2597 km² ). Parts of the Fauna-Flora-Habitat- Area Bremerkopf bei Steinberg (FFH-Nr. 6407-306; 5.64 km²) extend to the south-eastern slopes of the mountain , to the northern and western slopes of the FFH area Ruwer and Seitentäler (CDDA No. 6306-301; 43.31 km²) and, with the exception of south-western slopes, those of the FFH area Holzbachtal (CDDA No. 6406-303; 58 ha).
Schimmelkopf wind farm
In spring 2014, work began on the construction of the Weiskirchen wind farm (also known as Weiskirchen-Schimmelkopf ) on the Schimmelkopf . In the course of this work, the border path over the mountain was expanded to a length of around 2 km, along which the towers were erected at a distance of around 500 m. From the Rhineland-Palatinate side, the existing forest paths from district road 69 to WEA 1 were expanded and used as access to construction sites. The 4 E-115 wind turbines were completed in early 2015 and put into operation in spring 2015. They each have a rotor diameter of 115 m and a total height of 207 m. In the course of the construction of the wind power plant, the section of the dream loop "Weiskircher Höhentour" running over the summit was largely destroyed.
Traffic and walking
North past the Schimmelkopf, the federal road 407 leads between Zerf in the west and past the hamlet of Hirschfelderhof , which belongs to Zerf, to Waldweiler in the east , which is part of the Hunsrückhöhenstraße there . The K 69, which runs west of the mountain, branches off from this road southwest of Waldweiler and leads to the K 142 coming from the Hirschfelderhof; the latter merges with the K 151, which runs to Weiskirchen, near the meeting of the two district roads on the border of Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. There, through residential areas and, among other things, the Hochwald-Kliniken Weiskirchen in the forest, spur roads from the south lead up to the mountain; Near the clinic parking lot , where the Weiskirchen Hochwaldklinik public transport stop is located, there are further parking spaces a little north-northeast above the clinic.
The European long-distance hiking trail E3 leads over the Schimmelkopf . The dream loop, originally called Weiskircher Höhenour , has been renamed "Wildnistrail" and runs (shortened compared to the original length of 18.5 km) no longer over the ridge of the mountain, but along the slope; it was certified by the German Hiking Institute with the German Hiking Seal rating and rated with 51 experience points. The mountain can also be reached on other signposted forest trails. On it there is a picnic bench and an information sign that reads the highest point in the Saarland ; the back of the sign is used as a summit book by many hikers and mountain bikers who leave messages there .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Height of the Schimmelkopf according to Schimmelkopf (map and information), on saarlandbilder.net
- ↑ a b c d Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Horst Brausch u. a .: Saarland (map, picture, word). Schroedel-Verlag, Braunschweig 2009, p. 5, ISBN 978-3-507-50544-5 (textbook)
- ↑ Weiskirchen-Schimmelkopf wind farm project ( Memento of the original from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , from March 11, 2014, on weiskirchen.de (PDF; 3.98 MB)
Web links
- Schimmelkopf (map and information), on saarlandbilder.net