Central Rhön
| Central Rhön | ||
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 View of the Wasserkuppe |
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| Highest peak | Wasserkuppe ( 950 m above sea level ) | |
| location | District of Fulda , Hesse , District of Rhön-Grabfeld , Bavaria ( Germany ) | |
| Central part of the | Hohen Rhön , Rhön | |
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| Coordinates | 50 ° 30 ' N , 9 ° 56' E | |
| surface | 173.4 km² | |
The Central Rhön (also called Hochrhön in the Hesse Environmental Atlas ) is a 5th order natural area which, together with the southern Hochrhön, forms the Hohe Rhön . In this area there are several mountains over 900 meters high, among which the Wasserkuppe ( 950 m ) and the Heidelstein ( 926 m ) are to be highlighted. Other elevations over 900 meters high must be viewed as secondary peaks due to their low dominance and prominence .
Natural structure
The name Zentrale Hochrhön was defined as a natural area in 1968 in the context of the natural spatial structure 1: 200,000 (sheet 140 Schweinfurt) and assigned and structured as follows:
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(to 35 East Hessian mountains )
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(to 354 Hohe Rhön )
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354.1 Rhön headquarters - 173.4 km²
- 354.10 Wasserkuppenrhön (in the west of the area) - 39.1 km², almost completely in Hesse
- 354.11 Lange Rhön (in the center of the area) - 31.2 km² in Bavaria, 19.16 km² in Hesse and around 14.3 km² in Thuringia
- 354.12 Eastern fall of the Langen Rhön (in the east of the area) - 60.4 km², almost completely in Bavaria
- 354.13 Upper Ulstertal (between Wasserkuppenrhön and Langer Rhön) - 9.2 km², completely in Hesse
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354.1 Rhön headquarters - 173.4 km²
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(to 354 Hohe Rhön )
Demarcation
The central Rhön is bordered by the western and eastern Kuppenrhön in the west and north, and the eastern Rhön foreland in the northeast ; these are both assigned to the main unit " Vorder- und Kuppenrhön (with land ridge) ".
In the south-east borders the Ostliche Südrhön , a part of the Südrhön , which belongs to the natural spatial region (3rd order) Odenwald, Spessart and Südrhön and is therefore already included in the south-west German level land (2nd order).
Adjacent to the southwest is the Südliche Hochrhön , which is combined with the Central Rhön to form the main unit Hohe Rhön . The Hohe Rhön belongs, like the Vorder- and Kuppenrhön as well as other natural spatial main units, to the East Hessian Upland , part of the greater region Hessisches Bergland and thus also the Lower Saxon-Hessian Upland.
Natural space
The central Rhön is described as the "central bulge of the Hohe Rhön in the back, high plateaus and, in the western part, mountains made of basalt with partially wooded flanks and grassland on top". The Upper Ulstertal divides these into two mountain ranges, namely the Wasserkuppenrhön and Lange Rhön , whereby the eastern slope of the Langen Rhön is naturally separated.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In the Hesse Environmental Atlas, the main unit is 354 Hohe Rhön for 354.1 Hochrhön ; accessed on August 27, 2019.
- ↑ a b 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).
- ↑ a b c Map and legend of the natural areas of Hesse (online copy of Die Naturraum Hessens , Otto Klausing 1988) in the Hesse Environmental Atlas of the Hessian State Office for Environment and Geology
- ↑ a b Natural areas of the main unit groups 23, 14 and 35 in the Bavarian Atlas of the Bavarian State Government - Rhine-Main-Tiefland , Odenwald, Spessart, Südrhön and Rhön ( notes )
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )