Winterberger plateau

As winter Hochfläche will plateau around Winterberg in the Hochsauerlandkreis referred. It is part of the Rothaargebirge , whose ridge running from southwest to northeast becomes noticeably wide and flattens out at this point. It has an average altitude of almost 700  m above sea level. NHN on. Mountains like Poppenberg ( 745.8  m ), Herrloh ( 732.9  m ), Kap ( 776  m ), Dumel ( 720.1  m ) and Ruhrkopf ( 695.7  m ) give the plateau a slightly undulating landscape. It is only partially forested and is also used for agriculture and as a settlement area.

The Rhine-Weser watershed runs over the Winterberg plateau . The Ruhr and the Nameless , whose water flows into the Rhine, arise in its north . The Orke and its tributary Helle and several tributaries of the Sonneborn , a source river of the Nuhne , whose water flows into the Weser via Eder and Fulda, arise in the south of the plateau .

To the north, the Winterberg plateau merges gently into the valleys that emanate from it and the mountain ranges separating these valleys, while to the south it drops steeply by 200 m into the valleys of Orke and Sonneborn. Between the last-mentioned valleys, an approximately 8 km long ridge branches off from the Winterberg plateau to the southeast, which reaches its highest point in the Bollerberg at 757.7  m .

Web link

• View from Clemensberg (approx.  837  m ) to the Winterberg plateau (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net

Coordinates: 51 ° 11 ′ 42 "  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 48"  E