Zotzenheimer Horn
| Zotzenheimer Horn | ||
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 View from the south-southwest to the Zotzenheimer Horn |
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| height | 247.5 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Zotzenheim ; District of Mainz-Bingen , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Rhenish Hessian hill country | |
| Coordinates | 49 ° 52 '58 " N , 7 ° 59' 18" E | |
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The Zotzenheimer Horn is about 247.5 m above sea level. NHN high foothills of the Napoleonshöhe ( 271.4 m ) in the Rheinhessen hill country . It is located near Zotzenheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Mainz-Bingen .
geography
location
The Zotzenheimer Horn is located on the municipal boundary of Zotzenheim and Sprendlingen . As Southwest foothills of the plateau of Ober-Hilbersheim is its flat promontory about 2.3 kilometers north of Sprendlingen, 1.8 km northeast of Zotzenheim and 2 km east of Welgesheim , three local churches that are in southeast-northwest direction along the Wiesbachhorn line up.
Natural allocation
The Zotzenheimer Horn is located in the main natural unit group Northern Upper Rhine Lowland (No. 22), in the main unit Rheinhessisches Tafel- und Hügelland (227) and in the subunit Nördliches Tafelland (227.1) on the border of the natural areas West Plateau (227.11) in the northeast and the Rhine Hessian fringe (227.10) in the southwest.
Altitude
The Zotzenheimer Horn does not have a summit, because the terrain slopes gently from Napoleonshöhe ( 271.4 m ) to the southwest to the plateau spur at the height of 247.5 m ; in this direction the landscape continues to drop down to Zotzenheim (approx. 105 m ). In middle and lower slopes of the horn spread vineyards from.
Protected areas
The Horn near Zotzenheim nature reserve is mainly north of the Zotzenheimer Horn ( CDDA no. 163795; designated 1991; 64.1 hectares in size). The bird sanctuary Ober-Hilbersheimer Plateau borders in the northeast (VSG no. 6014-403; 24.99 km² ).
history
From 1813 to 1814, at the time of Napoléon , there was a telegraph station on the Zotzenheimer Horn of the Metz – Mainz optical telegraph line , which transmits messages between Mainz , the capital of the then Département du Mont-Tonnerre on the Donnersberg , and Metz and from there to Paris were. In 2003 a refuge was built.
Possibility of viewing
From the Zotzenheimer Horn there is a comprehensive panoramic view of the Taunus (north), Binger Wald (north-west), Hunsrück with Soonwald (west) and North Palatinate mountains (south-west) as well as the Nahe valley (west) and the valley of the Wiesbach (south-west). With good visibility, over 40 villages can be seen.
Traffic and walking
To the east past the Zotzenheimer Horn and the Napoleonshöhe between Sprendlingen and Ober-Hilbersheim leads the country road 415, which is winding on the hillside. For example, starting on this road you can hike to the Horn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Harald Uhlig: Geographical land survey: The natural space units on sheet 150 Mainz. Federal Institute for Regional Studies, Bad Godesberg 1964. → Online map (PDF; 4.7 MB)
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )