Black Forest high forest

Black Forest high forest from the west with the Erbeskopf in the center of the picture

The Black Forest high forest is the up to 816.32  m high southwestern part of the Hunsrück in northern Saarland and the neighboring Rhineland-Palatinate . The dialect Hohwäller belongs to the Moselle-Franconian dialect group .

geography

location

In the Saar-Hunsrück nature park , the Black Forest high forest stretches from Mettlach (Saarland) to Erbeskopf (Rhineland-Palatinate). There it is located northwest of Losheim , Weiskirchen , Wadern and Nonnweiler in Saarland and between Hermeskeil and Birkenfeld and Thalfang and Idar-Oberstein in Rhineland-Palatinate.

To the north lies the Osburger Hochwald ; both together are called Hochwald for short . The southeastern part of the Black Forest high forest is known as the Dollberge and to the northeast the Idarwald joins.

mountains

Erbeskopf tower

The mountains and elevations of the Black Forest high forest include - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea ​​level (NN; unless otherwise stated according to):

• Erbeskopf ( 816.32  m ), near Thalfang , the highest mountain in the Hunsrück and in Rhineland-Palatinate
• Ruppelstein ( 762.7  m ), near Börfink , Birkenfeld district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Sandkopf ( 757.4  m ), near Neuhütten -Muhl, the highest mountain in the Trier-Saarburg district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Diebskopf ( 738.9  m ), near Damflos , Trier-Saarburg district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Butterhecker Steinköpfe ( 722.6  m ), near Allenbach , Birkenfeld district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Ringelkopf ( 712.4  m ), near Allenbach , Birkenfeld district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Friedrichskopf ( 707.4  m ), near Brücken , Birkenfeld district, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Tiroler Stein ( 696.3  m ), near Züsch , Trier-Saarburg district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Dollberg ( 695.4  m ), between Neuhütten (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Eisen ( Saarland ), the highest mountain in Saarland on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate
• Teufelskopf ( 695  m ), near Waldweiler , Trier-Saarburg district , in the Irrwald, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Schimmelkopf ( Weiskircher Höhe ; 694.8  m ), between Mandern (Rhineland-Palatinate) and Weiskirchen (Saarland), the second highest mountain in Saarland on the border with Rhineland-Palatinate
• Mückenbornberg ( 692.6  m ), near Waldweiler, Trier-Saarburg district , in the Irrwald, Rhineland-Palatinate
• Steinkopf ( 683.3  m ), near Malborn , Bernkastel-Wittlich district , Rhineland-Palatinate
• Wildenburger Kopf ( 670.7  m ), near Kempfeld , Birkenfeld district , Rhineland-Palatinate

Establishment as a national park

According to a decision by the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of the Environment, parts of the Black Forest high forest have formed the Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park since March 2015 . The Soonwald was also on the shortlist .

literature

Hohwäller - An anthology Hochwälder Mundart , editors Dittmar Lauer , Manfred Moßmann - Verlag Alta Silva, Kell am See , October 2006, ISBN 3-9810762-0-6 ( ISBN 978-3-9810762-0-2 ), Figure [1]

Web links

• Literature about the Black Forest high forest in the Saarland bibliography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Article How high is the inheritance head really? from January 17, 2008 on lvermgeo.rlp.de (accessed on January 31, 2013)
2. ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
3. ↑ Height of the Dollberg according to Dollberge (map and information) on Saarlandbilder.net
4. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
5. ↑ National Park: District Administrator Fleck sees hardly any chances for the Soonwald ( memento of the original from May 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The  archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Rhein-Zeitung from May 18, 2012
6. ^ State concept of Rhineland-Palatinate for the "Hunsrück Hochwald" National Park