Wachtlerberg
| Wachtlerberg | ||
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 The Wachtlerberg as seen from Spielberg Castle . |
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| height | 586.7 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | between Obermögersheim and Ostheim ; Counties Ansbach and Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ; Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Franconian Alb ( Franconian Alb ) | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 2 '18 " N , 10 ° 40' 36" E | |
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| rock | Opalinus Clay , iron sandstone | |
The Wachtlerberg in Middle Franconia is 586.7 m above sea level. NHN high, wooded mountain of the Franconian Alb low mountain range in the urban area of Wassertrüdingen in the district of Ansbach and in the municipality of Westheim in the district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen ( Bavaria ).
geography
location
The border between the town of Wassertrüdingen (district of Ansbach), whose core town is west of the mountain, and the community of Westheim (district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen), whose core town is south-southwest, runs across the Wachtlerberg ; it passes the main summit in a south-north direction a few meters away. This is, viewed counterclockwise , 2.7 km south-southeast of Obermögersheim and 2.2 km northeast of Geilsheim , two districts of Wassertrüdingen; 2 km north-northwest of Ostheim , a district of Westheim ; 3 km west-south-west of the Gnotzheim district of Spielberg and 3.5 km south-west of the eponymous capital of the market town of Gnotzheim itself.
Natural allocation and geology
The Wachtlerberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land (No. 11), in the main unit foreland of the Southern Franconian Jura (110) and in the subunit Hahnenkamm-Vorland (110.2) to the natural area of the Hahnenkamm-Vorberge (110.20).
The mountain consists of Braunjura , in the surrounding area is mostly Black Jura .
Mountain height and topography
The Wachtlerberg has two peaks belonging to the Wassertrüdingen area: the main and south- east summit ( 586.7 m ) and the north-west summit ( 578 m ). The landscape of the wooded mountain trembles, morphologically separated from it, west of the northwestern tip of the Hahnenkamm in the direction of the Hesselberg ( 689.4 m ), about 12 km away , to about a hundred meters above its surrounding area.
Streams and watershed
Coming from the Hahnenkamm in the east, the watershed stretches between Altmühl in the north and Wörnitz in the south up to the secondary summit lying a little northwest of the highest point of the Wachtlerberg and bends there to the north. The following brooks or small rivers arise on the mountain, running counterclockwise and partly in the form of differently named upper courses: The Wurmbach rises to the east of the main summit and is fed by the Funkenhardgraben, which swells near the northwest summit, and flows to the Altmühl. On the northwest flank is the source of the Arrabach and on the west flank that of the Arrenbach , both of which water reaches the Wörnitz via the Lentersheimer Mühlbach near the mountain . The Grundbach and the right upper reaches of the Bruckbach , both of which flow a little further downstream into the Wörnitz, arise on the southern flank .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Topographic map : Wachtlerberg , on the Bavaria Atlas of the Bavarian State Government ( information )
- ^ Franz Tichy: Geographical Land Survey: The natural spatial units on sheet 163 Nuremberg. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1973. → Online map (PDF; 4.0 MB)
- ^ Geological layer of the BayernAtlas, on geoportal.bayern.de