Bridge head
| Bridge head | ||
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 View from Galgenberg over the K 34 ( Stein - Hof ) north-northwest to the south side of the Stegskopf |
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| height | 654.4 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Emmerzhausen ; Altenkirchen district , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Westerwald | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 42 '6 " N , 8 ° 1' 27" E | |
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| Type | extinct volcano | |
| rock | basalt | |
| particularities | second highest mountain in the Westerwald | |
The bridge head is 654.4 m above sea level. NHN is the second highest elevation in the Westerwald after the Fuchskaute and is an extinct volcano in the municipality of Emmerzhausen in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Altenkirchen .
geography
location
The Stegskopf is located as part of the "Hohen Westerwald" (highest area of the Westerwald) in the eastern part of the Altenkirchen district about 2 km south of Emmerzhausen or directly west-north-west of its "Stegskopf" district. To the northwest, the landscape drops over the Kleiner Steinchen ( 587.3 m ) to Derschen , the core town of the municipality of the same name. Slightly more than 1 km east of the web head passes a portion of the border of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , in the east-northeast of the mountain of the Burbacher Gemeindeteil lip is located. In the south-east the terrain slopes down to Stein-Neukirch .
On the top of the bridge, where there are many abandoned quartzite and basalt quarries , there is a dense coniferous forest .
Natural allocation
The bridge head belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Westerwald (No. 32) and in the main unit Hoher Westerwald (322) to the sub-unit Westerwald basalt plateau (322.0).
Flowing waters
Spring and at the bridge head - partly in the area of military training area Daaden - including those running waters: "Small Nister" and "Black Nister" flowing into southern directions and at Nister lead and Daade and Buchheller the north of Heller strive . This means that the Stegskopf and the flowing waters belong to the southern catchment area of the Sieg . The Kleine Nister rises from the Derscher Geschwämm , a low moor with approaches to the intermediate moor.
Protected areas
Parts of the fauna-flora-habitat area, wetlands and heaths of the High Westerwald (FFH no. 5314-304; 47.8 km² ) and the Westerwald bird sanctuary (VSG no. 5312-401; 289.48 km² ) are located on the Stegskopf ).
Daaden military training area
The Stegskopf was also known from the Daaden military training area (Stegskopf camp), first mentioned in 1914 and taken over by the Bundeswehr in 1958 , which is located as a military area south of Derschen and Emmerzhausen; the mountain lies on its northern edge. In the first quarter of 2015, the Stegskopf camp of the military training area will be abandoned by the Bundeswehr as part of its realignment . The radio measuring units Prinz Eugen - Tegetthoff (1943–1945) called themselves Stegskopfer because they attended special courses on high-frequency technology in the Stegskopf camp . Some later well-known communications engineers and physicists belonged to these units , for example Alfred Fettweis , Wolf Häfele , Herbert Daniel and Walter Mayer .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Planning of stationing according to federal states. The tables were last changed: April 17, 2013. In: Stationing Concept 2011. Federal Ministry of Defense, April 29, 2013, accessed on December 15, 2013 (closures).
- ^ Friedrich Janssen, Hans-Joachim Menzel, Karl Neumann: Wir Stegskopfer. The radio measuring units Prinz Eugen - Tegetthoff 1943–1945 . Self-published by Hans-Joachim Menzel, Murr 1989. pp. 11 ff., 280 ff., 319.