Black Mountains (Rhön)
| Black mountains | ||
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| Highest peak | Totnansberg ( 839 m ) | |
| location | Bad Kissingen district , Bavaria , Rhön-Grabfeld district , Bavaria | |
| Southern part of the | Southern Hochrhön , Hohe Rhön , Rhön | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 19 ′ N , 9 ° 56 ′ E | |
The Black Mountains are part of the Hohe Rhön , more specifically the Southern Hochrhön , which is located southwest of the Kreuzberg Group and thus represents the southernmost part of the Hohe Rhön. The area has been largely protected by the "Black Mountains Nature Reserve", the second largest in Bavaria outside the Alps, since 1993 in order to counteract afforestation by coniferous forests.
Natural allocation
The name Black Mountains was defined as a natural area in 1968 as part of the natural spatial structure 1: 200,000 (sheet 140 Schweinfurt) and assigned as follows:
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(to 35 East Hessian mountains )
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(to 354 Hohe Rhön )
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(to 354.0 Southern Hochrhön )
- 354.01 Black Mountains
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(to 354.0 Southern Hochrhön )
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(to 354 Hohe Rhön )
Demarcation
In the north is the community of Wildflecken , from there the natural border to east-south-east follows the valley between Feuerberg and Kreuzberg with the Kreuzberg group , and then follows the Kellersbach after the Guckaspass . North of Langenleiten, the border runs south to leave out the valleys of the tributaries of the Kleine Steinach. Retreating further and further west, the natural boundary runs through the villages of Platz and Geroda .
Between the Kellersbach and Geroda, the Black Mountains border the Adelsberg Forest , which is subordinate to the Schondra-Thulba-Südrhön , and which in turn is subordinate to the Hammelburger Südrhön . These subordinate to the southern Rhön , belong to the greater area of Odenwald, Spessart and southern Rhön , which are part of the south-west German layer level country and are no longer included in the low mountain range threshold.
The natural border to the Brückenauer Kuppenrhön , which belongs to the Kuppenrhön , finally follows the Milzbach flowing northwards past Schildeck . After the confluence with the Sinn , the border follows upriver to the north. To the north of Oberbach , the Dammersfeld ridge borders to the west to Wildflecken .
geology
In addition to the Black Mountains, the southern Hohe Rhön (see # Natural Spaces ) also includes the Kreuzberg Group and the Dammersfeld Ridge . All three mountain ranges have an occasionally interrupted basalt shield and thus differ somewhat from the Langen Rhön and, to a lesser extent, the Wasserkuppenrhön , although they are clearly different from the individual peaks of the Kuppenrhön (see map on the right).
The rock composition of the area resembles that of the Kreuzberg group. The Black Mountains consist of two ridges that consist of individual peaks. The base is formed by red clays and marls, above which is rock from the Lower Muschelkalk. The peaks are mostly made of basalt. Usually there is a layer of clay over the rock.
mountains
- Totnansberg ( 839 m ; centrally located; with youth campground ; was named Totmannsberg in 1968 when it was built)
- Height ( 834 m ; south of the Totnansberg)
- Schwarzenberg ( 832 m ; north of the Totnansberg; with the northern foothills of the Feuerberg, Kissinger Hütte and the Feuerberg ski area)
- Erlenberg ( 826 m ; south of the Totnansberg)
- Farnsberg ( 786 m ; west of the Totnansberg; Würzburger Haus, Farnsberg recreation area and Farnsberg ski lifts)
- Lösershag ( 765 m ; in the north; with geotope, summit is a natural forest reserve )
- Platzer Kuppe ( 737 m ; located in the south)
- Schindküppel ( 659 m ; located to the west)
- Knörzchen ( 643 m ; in the southwest)
Natural space
The natural area is drained to the east towards the Franconian Saale by Thulba and Aschach . Hardly any noteworthy streams flow to the Sinn . In 1968, at the time sheet 140 "Schweinfurt" was drawn up, the annual rainfall was 1000–1100 mm, with a closed snow cover on 90–110 days of the year. In addition, extensive meadows shaped the picture, on the mountain slopes you can mostly find deciduous forest. The coniferous forest planted on the heights in the 1950s and 1960s has been cut down since around 2010 and replaced by mixed forest.
Web links
- Black Mountains Nature Reserve . In: biosphaerenreservat-rhoen.de
- Information Center House of the Black Mountains
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b dav-kg.de Information on the nature reserve, accessed on October 12, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d 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).