On the layer
| On the layer | ||
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| height | 624.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Weißenburg in Bavaria ; Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Franconian Alb | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 0 '13 " N , 10 ° 57' 52" E | |
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| rock | Malm , Dogger | |
| particularities | - Third highest elevation in the Weißenburger Alb - Bergwaldtheater Weißenburg - War memorial site Weißenburg |
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On the level is a 624.2 m above sea level. NHN high, wooded and elongated mountain of the Weißenburger Alb , part of the Franconian Alb low mountain range . It is located near Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ). On the plain is one of the highest elevations in the Franconian Alb and is the third highest mountain in the Weißenburger Alb after the Laubbichel and the Steinberg and in front of the Wülzburger Berg and one of the highest mountain peaks in the east of the district. The northernmost sub-peak of the mountain is popularly known as Ludwigshöhe .
geography
location
On the plain rises in the Altmühltal nature park along the Albtrauf in the middle of the Weißenburg city forest . Its summit is 3 km south of the Weißenburg old town . Weissenburg industrial areas are located north to west of the mountain. The deserted areas of Stadelhof and Markhof are located on and on the southwest slope . Beyond that is Dettenheim , southeast of Haardt . In the northeast the mountain slopes down to the settlements Aumühle and Sommerkeller . In the north it extends as far as the Schönau housing estate, where the Weissenburg Mountain Forest Theater is located on Ludwigshöhe . They are all in the urban area of Weißenburg.
The mountain has an elongated plateau that gives it its name . At its summit there is a trigonometric point ( ⊙ ) at a height of 624.2 m . The mountain initially stretches in a north-south direction and bends in the north to the east. While in the west the terrain drops a little more than 200 m into the valley of the Swabian Rezat , the landscape in the east and north-east leads over the 500 m contour line to neighboring elevations. These include the Steinberg and Eichelberg in the east and the Laubbichel and the Wülzburger Berg in the northeast.
The European main watershed , which separates the catchment areas of the Rhine and Danube, runs south of the mountain . The Swabian Rezat flows along its western flank, and its tributary Kühlenbach rises south of the mountain .
Parts of the nature reserve protection zone in the Altmühltal nature park are located on the elevation ( CDDA no. 396115; designated 1995; 1632.9606 km² in size).
In the west to north runs downstream in the Rezattal between Dettenheim and Weißenburg the federal road 2 and in the northeast to the east from Weißenburg past the forester's house Laubenthal to Rothenstein the federal road 13 . Some forest paths and forest roads lead over the mountain, along the mountain several hiking and cycling trails, including the Main-Donau-Weg .
Natural allocation
At the level in which belongs physiographic feature unit group Franconian Jura (no. 08), in the main unit Southern Frankenalb (082) and in the subunit Altmühlalb (082.2) for the natural environment Weißenburger Alb (082.26). The terrain slopes down into the Weißenburger Bucht (110.3) in the west and into the Treuchtlinger Pforte of the Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land in the south .
Side knolls and viewpoints
Schroppenwinkel
The Schroppenwinkel is a 611.4 m high crest of the elevation. Its summit is about 330 m north of the mountain summit of Auf der Ebene. On the north-western slope of the elevation, on the eastern flank of the Swabian Rezat valley, there is the natural monument Steinbrüchlein .
Ludwigshöhe
The Ludwigshöhe is a side knoll in the northeast of Auf der Ebene on the southern edge of the city center of Weißenburg. According to the contour lines in topographic maps , it reaches a height of about 565 m . It is not recorded on most of the maps. The Ludwigshöhe owes its name to the Roman-German Emperor Ludwig dem Baiern , who in 1338 donated a large part of the forest on the mountain (today Weißenburger Stadtwald ) to the imperial city of Weißenburg .
Jacob's rest
The Jakobsruhe is a lookout point near the Katzenleite on the edge of a forest area and south of the Schönau settlement at an altitude of around 500 m . From there the view falls on the town of Weißenburg below. The name comes from a beer that was served there on May 27, 1832 by Johann Jakob Fleischmann.
Buildings
Below the Ludwigshöhe is the listed Bergwaldtheater Weißenburg, an open-air and natural stage designed in 1929 according to plans by Bernhard Nill. To the east of the mountain is the Weißenburg War Memorial, inaugurated in 1923 . In the south there are ski jumps of the Weißenburger line . There used to be a quarry on the mountain. There are some burial mounds in the vicinity .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c Topographic map : On the plain , on the Bavarian Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( notes )
- ^ Franz Tichy: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ↑ List of monuments of Weißenburg i.Bay. , Bavarian Monument List , Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation , accessed on August 26, 2015 (PDF)