Soisberger Kuppenrhön
| Soisberger Kuppenrhön | ||
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| Highest peak | Habelberg ( 718.5 m above sea level ) | |
| location | Hessen , Thuringia | |
| part of | Kuppenrhön , Rhön | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 44 ' N , 9 ° 51' E | |
The Soisberger Kuppenrhön is the north-westerly natural area of the German low mountain range Rhön around the up to 552.9 m high Hessian skittles , which reaches 629.9 m in the north on the eponymous Soisberg and 718.5 m in the south-east on the Habelberg . It is mainly located in Hesse ( Fulda district , north in the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district ), in the southeast also partly in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .
Location and limits
To the west of Eiterfeld and Schenklengsfeld , the Soisberger Kuppenrhön meets the Haune plateau , to the north it tapers and pushes into the Seulingswald to Friedewald .
In the north east it runs east of Ransbach in a wooded foothill of the Salzunger Werrabergland , in the middle and south east it meets the (middle) Ulstertal between below Buttlar and (upstream) above Tanns , which separates it from the Auersberger Kuppenrhön .
The southern border to the Milseburger Kuppenrhön runs in the east along the state road ( Habel -) Esbachsgraben - Obernüst and finally along the valley of the Nüst, which is also flanked by a state road, to the west to the Huenfeld basin of the Haune near Hünfeld .
Within these limits, the Soisberger Kuppenrhön is about 30 km long in north-south direction and, apart from the north, between 10 and 16 km wide.
Different demarcation
The Environmental Atlas Hessen of the Hessian Ministry of the Environment places the southern border of the Soisberger Kuppenrhön on the federal road 84 in the direction of Rasdorf , which passes immediately south of the skittles. However, this classification corresponds neither to the geological (see adjacent map) nor the orographic conditions. In particular, the main series of skittles continues to the south-southeast, flowing through somewhat coarser-knotted mountains. The actual mountains of the Milseburger Kuppenrhön , which adjoins to the south, stand on red sandstone and are separated by a depression landscape south of the Nüsttal.
Landscape and geology
The Soisberger Kuppenrhön is known above all for the Hessian skittles , a collection of peaks up to 552.9 m ( Stallberg ), which is located in the south, east of Eiterfeld and south of Schenklengsfeld . The name alludes to the uniformity and number of mountains. The core of these peaks consists of hexagonal basalt columns (see also under Stoppelsberg ), which were created when the lava cooled . The Soisberg and the Stoppelsberg ( 523.9 m ), which is already outside the Rhön in the west, are also counted as bowling in the broader sense.
Main series
What is striking about the Soisberger Kuppenrhön is that the most striking peaks are mostly lined up along the Fulda - Werra watershed, apart from the far north, which corresponds to between the Haune in the west and the Ulster in the east. The northernmost of these mountains, the Dreienberg ( 527 m ; northernmost mountain of the entire Rhön), Landecker Berg ( 510.9 m ) and Soisberg ( 629.9 m ), stand isolated on shell limestone pedestals within an otherwise poor landscape.
Only south of the Taft , which shifts the watershed 3 km to the west, does the dome density suddenly increase. The basalt peaks of Lichtberg ( 465 m ), Rückersberg ( 524.7 m ), Appelsberg ( 531.5 m ), Stallberg ( 552.9 m ), Morsberg ( 466.4 m ) follow from a Keuper center lined with shell limestone m ) and Hübelsberg ( 479.8 m ) and finally the rough to fine peaks of Buchwald ( 545 m ), Breitem Berg ( 580.8 m ), Pietzelstein ( 521 m ), Dörnberg ( 521.5 m ), Sucheberg ( 583.6 m ) and Rößberg ( 639.4 m ) neatly lined up along the watershed towards the south-southeast.
From the Rößberg to the Boxberg ( 685.4 m ), 4 km away , the watershed suddenly runs in an east- south- east direction, only 1.5 km parallel to the Nüst .
east
To the east of the watershed, the game of skittles continues in a back row with Kleinberg ( 521.5 m ) and Gehilfersberg ( 456 m ).
The Ulstertal is flanked by the Buchenberg ( 396.5 m , northeast) and the pointed-capped Standorfsberg ( 386.4 m ) near Buttlar , which, except from the south, is completely enclosed by flowing waters ( Grüsselbach , Taft , Ulster). To the south it goes west of Geisa into the unspectacular Rasdorfer Berg ( 411 m ), on which the Point Alpha is located, a former US observation base on the inner-German border , which today functions as a memorial and memorial. This finally goes over to the Landwehr / Sissenberg ( 432 m / 411.9 m ), following the former inner-German border . The latter is already flanking the Geisa valley , which in the mouth of the river is part of the Ulstertal natural area.
Between Geisa Ulster and a back, the northwest pushes Schleids ( Bockberg ) 422.2 m reached and northwest Motzlars in the striking cap of the skirt chair ( 529 m ) culminates.
The most prominent bank edge height is to be found south of the Apfelbach estuary, in the extreme southeast of the Soisberger Kuppenrhön, in the Habelberg , at 718.5 m the highest elevation in the natural area. To the west, the Habelberg merges into the Seelesberg ( 671.5 m ) on the former inner-German border, which in turn merges south into the Boxberg in the extreme southeast of the main row.
west
To the west of the main row is the Wisselsberg ( 517.8 m ); further south, the mighty Suhl ( 571.7 m ) seals off the landscape towards the Hünfeld basin . Immediately east of the Suhl, halfway to the main row, is the Odersberg ( 557.8 m ). Suhl and Odersberg are separated from the rest of the landscape to the south-east by the Aschenbach flowing to the Nüst and to the north by the hazel that flows into the Haune in the Huenfeld basin .
The Eitra and the Solz, which flows directly to the Fulda, arise further north .
mountains
Only important mountains and elevations are listed below (for a nearly complete list, see above in the Landscape and Geology section ) - sorted by height in meters (m) above sea level:
- Habelberg (718.5 m), extreme southeast, on the Ulstertal near Tann
- Boxberg (685.4 m), southwest of the Habelberg - former inner-German border
- Seelesberg (671.5 m), northwest between Habelberg and Boxberg
- Rößberg (639.4 m), south, southwest of Ketten
- Soisberg (629.9 m), north, northeast of Eiterfeld - with Soisbergturm ( AT )
- Suhl (571.7 m), southwest, east of Hünfeld - basalt mining
- Ulmenstein (549 m), near Mackenzell, with a lake created by basalt mining
- Stallberg (552.9 m), center between Hünfeld and Rasdorf - highest mountain of the Hessian bowling game
- Rockenstuhl (529 m); South-east, Ulstertal near Motzlar - only open ridge to the south-west between Geisa , Ulster and Apfelbach ; Namesake of the former municipality of Rockenstuhl
- Dreienberg (527 m), south of Friedewald - northernmost mountain of the Rhön
- Landecker Berg (510.9 m), between Soisberg and Landecker Berg
- Standorfsberg (386.4 m), Ulstertal west of Buttlar - surrounded by Grüsselbach , Taft and Ulster immediately to the west, north and east; former inner-German border
Individual evidence
- ^ Emil Meynen , Josef Schmithüsen (editor): Handbook of the natural spatial structure of Germany . Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Remagen / Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 deliveries in 8 books, 4th / 5th delivery in Remagen 1957, 6th delivery in Remagen 1959, updated map 1: 1,000,000 with main units 1960).
- ↑ Werner Röll: Geographical land survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 126 Fulda. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1969. → Online map (PDF; 4.2 MB) - not yet included!
- ↑ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 140 Schweinfurt. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1968. → Online map (PDF; 4.3 MB)
- ↑ Map and description in the Hesse Environmental Atlas (open in new window! )
- ↑ The Ulmenstein in the Rhön Lexicon