Totnansberg

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Totnansberg
(Dead Man's Mountain)
height 839.4  m above sea level NHN
location between Gefäll and Oberbach ; Bad Kissingen district , Bavaria ( Germany )
Mountains Rhön ( Black Mountains )
Dominance 6 km →  Kreuzberg
Notch height 177 m ↓  Guckaspass
Coordinates 50 ° 19 '16 "  N , 9 ° 55' 49"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 19 '16 "  N , 9 ° 55' 49"  E
Totnansberg (Bavaria)
Totnansberg
Development Forest roads
particularities Campsite on the mountain slope, cell phone mast

The Totnansberg occasionally, Totmannsberg called, is the highest mountain in the Black Mountains , a subunit of the Rhon .

geography

The Totnansberg is a flat knoll. To the north and south the mountain runs flat to Schwarzenberg and Erlenberg . To the west, the mountain flank is formed by the valley of the Mittelbach. The mountain is steepest to the east. The slope flattens much until Gefäll from which to 374  m above sea level. NHN lies.

The geology is similar to that of the Black Mountains: the base is formed by red clays and marls, and above them is rock from the Lower Muschelkalk. The peaks are mostly made of basalt. Usually there is a layer of clay over the rock.

use

The mountain is located in the " Black Mountains Nature Reserve ", the second largest in Bavaria outside the Alps, which was established in 1993 to counteract reforestation by coniferous forests.

On the eastern slope is the Totnansberg youth camp in the Bad Kissingen district, which has a capacity for 80 people. There is also a cell phone mast on the mountain .

Myths and legends

According to legend, the mountain is said to have been named after Totnan , Kilian's companion .

Legend has it that the name Totmannsberg comes from the fact that a man got lost in the Black Mountains during a heavy snowstorm. Since he could not find shelter, he crouched against a bush. The search for the man the next day was unsuccessful. It wasn't until the spring that the lifeless body was found hanging in a tall tree on the mountain. Since then, the mountain has been called Totmannsberg.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. 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 MB).
  3. dav-kg.de Information on the nature reserve, accessed on October 12, 2013.