Staufen (Taunus)
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 Staufen from east-northeast over the houses of Kelkheim-Fischbach |
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| height | 451 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Kelkheim ; Main-Taunus-Kreis , Hessen ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Taunus | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 8 '28 " N , 8 ° 24' 54" E | |
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The Staufen is 451 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Taunus low mountain range . It is located near Kelkheim in the Main-Taunus district of Hesse .
geography
location
The Staufen, part of the Vordertaunus, is located in the Taunus Nature Park between Kelkheim in the east, its district Fischbach in the northeast and the core town of Eppstein in the west. The Fischbach flows past to the north and flows into the Schwarzbach to the west of the mountain in Eppstein . The Gimbach rises on the south-eastern flank of the mountain as a western tributary of the Liederbach stream that runs through Kelkheim .
Natural allocation
The Staufen belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (number 30) and in the main unit Vordertaunus (300) to the natural area Eppstein-Hornauer Vortaunus (300.1), with the natural area Main-Taunus foreland (235) joining on its eastern flank .
Protected areas
The fauna-flora-habitat area of hillside forests and rock corridors at the Kaisertempel / Martinswand b is located on the Staufen . Eppstein (FFH no. 5816-311; 2.28 km² in size). On the lower part of its eastern flank lies the Förstergrund nature reserve of Kelkheim ( CDDA no. 163130; designated in 1990; 15 ha).
useful information
A little to the east of the summit of the Staufen you come across the Großer Mannstein , a rock group from which the view towards Großer Feldberg and the towns of Fischbach , Hornau , Kelkheim Münster , Schneidhain etc. fall in between. Here a plaque commemorates the "Staufen oath" of the von Gagern brothers (see Ringwall Staufen ). The former summer house of the Frankfurt geologist Albert von Reinach (1842–1905) stood about 100 meters away until 1987 , after which it was an inn for many years and ultimately a hiking home for the Taunus Club . Furthermore, a forester's house until 1999 , the area of which was planted in autumn 2000 by the German Forest Protection Association and the German Forest Youth .
The Kleine Mannstein is located southeast below it .
The imperial temple and the Mendelssohn memorial stone are located on the western flank of the mountain with the Martinswand . Both offer views of Eppstein and the Eichelberger Mark .
The Sauer Cross stands on the southern slope of the Staufen, on the way from Eppstein to Gimbacher Hof in Kelkheim (Amtsbotenweg) . The stone cross is associated with a probably legendary attack by the robber Schinderhannes (1779–1803).