Boot height
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 Unter-Abtsteinach, behind Hardberg, Zentwald and Stiefelhöhe (from left) |
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| height | 584 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Border Hessen , Germany | |
| Mountains | Odenwald | |
| Dominance | 1.7 km → Hardberg | |
| Notch height | 30 m | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 31 '22 " N , 8 ° 48' 10" E | |
| Topo map | LAGIS Hessen | |
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The boot height between Unter-Abtsteinach and Eiterbach is 584 m above sea level. NHN the fifth highest mountain in the Odenwald .
Geographical location
The state border between Hesse and Baden-Württemberg runs from northeast to southwest over the Stiefelhöhe . The main part of the summit with the highest point of the mountain is in the Unter-Abtsteinach area of the municipality of Abtsteinach in the Hessian district of Bergstrasse . The northeast slopes are part of the district of Wald-Michelbach . The southeast across the border is part of the Eiterbach district of the Heiligkreuzsteinach community . Here, near the summit, lies at over 580 m above sea level. NHN the highest point of the Rhein-Neckar-Kreis .
The Stiefelhöhe, together with the Hardberg ( 593.1 m ) adjoining it in the north and the Zentwald forest in between, forms a densely wooded ridge that rises as a bastion on the edge of the sandstone Odenwald above the mostly significantly lower mountains of the Crystalline Odenwald to the west .
Use and infrastructure
The forests are a hiking area with an extensive and excellent network of trails. To the southwest of the summit of the Stiefelhöhe, in a former quarry on the state border on the Baden side at an altitude of 505 m, there is the all-year-round (but not daily) managed Stiefelhütte , which arose from an accommodation for the quarry workers. It is connected to Unter-Abtsteinach, a few hundred meters away, via a forest road. The abandoned quarry is also often used as a climbing area.
The Lichtenklinger Hof lies in a hollow on the north-eastern slope .
Maps
- Hessian Land Surveying Office: TF 20-9, Der Überwald. Topographic leisure map 1: 20,000. Wiesbaden: Hessisches Landesvermessungsamt, 2000, ISBN 3-89446-293-0
Web links
- UNESCO GeoPark Bergstrasse-Odenwald
- Description of the hike
- Description of the climbing area, with maps ( memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )