Weissenberg (Thannhausen)

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Weissenberg
height 485.4  m above sea level NHN
location near Thannhausen ; Pfofeld ; Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district , Bavaria ( Germany )
Coordinates 49 ° 7 '22 "  N , 10 ° 54' 21"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 7 '22 "  N , 10 ° 54' 21"  E
Weißenberg (Thannhausen) (Bavaria)
Weissenberg (Thannhausen)

The Weißenberg near Thannhausen is 485.4  m above sea level. NHN high wooded ridge in the Middle Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen . The mountain, together with its forest area, was a community-free area until the municipal reform in Bavaria .

geography

location

The wooded ridge is located in the north of the Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen district, south of the Great Bromb axis , west of Ramsberg , east of Langlau and north of Veitserlbach and Thannhausen. The village of Regelsberg is on the hill . The municipal boundary between Pleinfeld and Pfofeld runs north and west of the mountain peak. In the north, the mountain falls into the valley of the Brombach , which has been occupied by the Great Brombachsee since the 1990s as part of the Brombach reservoir project. In the north lies the Grafenmühle nature reserve . The remainder of an unknown, abandoned medieval hilltop castle rose on one of the foothills of the Weißenberg (see Burgstall Altes Schloss ).

Natural allocation

The Weißenberg belongs to the natural spatial main unit group Franconian Keuper-Lias-Land (No. 11), in the main unit Middle Franconian Basin (113) and in the sub-unit Southern Middle Franconian Plates (113.3) to the natural area of ​​the southern foreland of the Spalter Hügelland (113.33).

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Individual evidence

  1. a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Official register of places for Bavaria. Territorial status on October 1, 1964 with statistical information from the 1961 census. Munich (Contributions to Statistics Bavaria 260), 1964, column 784
  3. Topographical Maps , BayernAtlas , Bavarian Surveying Administration
  4. ^ 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)