White Wall (Taunus)

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White wall: quartzite block heap
View from the White Wall northwest to the Großer Feldberg

The White Wall in the Taunus is a quartzite field on the Altkönig that was created during the Ice Age and was created by frost blasting . It is at a maximum of 634  m above sea level. NHN near Oberursel in the Hessian Hochtaunuskreis .

From the Kanonenstrasse , which leads from Oberursel to the Großer Feldberg , the rocky landscape looks like a quarry. The stone blocks shine white in sunlight; this fact gave the rubble field its name.

geography

location

The White Wall is located in the Taunus Nature Park on the northeast slope of the Altkönig ( 798.2  m ), from the summit of which it is about 1.4 km, and 6 km northwest of the center of Oberursel . It is located in the Altkönig nature reserve in the former Harheim community forest . It is surrounded by gnarled birch trees and heathland.

Natural allocation

The White Wall belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Taunus (No. 30) and in the main unit Hoher Taunus (301) to the subunit Feldberg-Taunuskamm (301.3). Its landscape falls to the south-east into the natural area Kronberger Taunusfuß (300.21), which belongs to the sub-unit Altkönig Vorstufe (300.2) in the main unit Vortaunus (300) .

geology

The White Wall was built in the Lower Devonian about 400 million years ago. The block heap is part of the "Taunus quartzite" and therefore consists of a material similar to that of the Altkönig ring wall and other rock groups in the area ( marble stone , Elisabethenstein , gold mine rock group ).

hike

The European long-distance hiking trail E1 leads over the southern high elevations of the White Wall from the Fuchstanz mountain pass ( 662  m ) to the west and then over the Altkönig to the south-west . In sections it divides the route with the paved path and after the quartzite field leads east down to the Hohemark in the valley of the Urselbach.

See also

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 139 Frankfurt a. M. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1967. →  Online map (PDF; 4.9 MB)

literature

Web links

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Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 18 ″  N , 8 ° 29 ′ 50 ″  E