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Großer Farmdenkopf
At , the Großer Farmdenkopf is the highest peak in the Thuringian Highland. It is situated in the county of Landkreis Sonneberg, Sonneberg in the German state of Thuringia. Location The Großer Farmdenkopf is the highest point of the Wurzelberg massif in the northwest of the county of Landkreis Sonneberg, Sonneberg southeast of Goldisthal, which lies in the deeply incised Schwarza (Saale), Schwarza valley, and northwest of nearby Scheibe-Alsbach, which is a little further away and sprawls out above the river in the same valley. The whole of the massif lies north of the Rennsteig and thus in the Northern High Slate Mountains (''Nördlichen Hohen Schiefergebirge''). Isolation and prominence With a topographic isolation of over 20 kilometres, the Großer Farmdenkopf is one of the most dominant mountains in Thuringia. Only the Großer Finsterberg (944 m), 21.3 km away, the Großer Eisenberg (907 m) and Neuhäuser Hügel (892 m), 21.8 km away to the northwest, are highe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Finsterberg
The Großer Finsterberg is a mountain, , in the Thuringian Forest not far from the villages of Stützerbach and Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig. It is the third highest peak in the German state of Thuringia. Description The volcanic origin of the Großer Finsterberg may be seen clearly from the conical shape of its summit, which tilts markedly towards the west. Apart from the summit plateau, the mountain is completely covered by a nearly natural cotton and reed grass spruce woodland and in most places there is no shrub layer. On the plateau a special mountain pasture vegetation has formed with baldmoney, veronica and St. John's wort. Location Subpeaks and boundaries One kilometre away to the north-northeast is its smaller brother, the Kleiner Finsterberg or ''Finsterberger Köpfchen'' (). Two less spectacular eastern subpeaks, 2 to 3 kilometres distant both bear the name ''Rosenkopf'' ( and ). To the west, northwest and north the Finsterberg is bounded by the Freibach and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kieferle
The Kieferle, near Steinheid in the county of Sonneberg, is a mountain, , in the Thuringian Highland and the second highest mountain of this range, which forms the eastern part of the Thuringian Forest . To the west-southwest the valley of the Grümpen, whose eastern source lies on the mountain's western slopes, clearly separates it from the almost equally high Dürre Fichte, on whose northern and eastern mountainsides other sources are located. To the east it is bounded by the Göritz. To the north of the mountain rises the Schwarza. To the south is the 837-metre-high Rittersberg, whose eastern neighbour is the Breitenberg. The waters of the Grümpen discharge into the River Main and then finally into the Rhine, but those of the Schwarza enter the Saale which flows into the Elbe. The mountain is thus on the watershed between the Rhine and the Elbe. The Kieferle rises south of the long-distance trail, the Rennsteig, which runs over the nearby Sandberg. The Kieferle descends t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kickelhahn
Kickelhahn is a mountain in the northern edge of the Central Thuringian Forest in the municipal area of Ilmenau, Germany. Its summit has an altitude of a.s.l. Geography Kickelhahn is the highest point in the municipal area of Ilmenau and is situated about southwest of the town centre, from Manebach and from Stützerbach. Its summit rises about 400 m above the valley of Ilm river. Historically, it was also the highest point of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Its massif extends over about in the north-south direction and in the east-west direction. It is situated between the valleys of the rivers Ilm in the west and the north, Gabelbach in the east and Langebach in the south, so that the mountain is part of the Ilm catchment area. Some minor streams have their sources on Kickelhahn. An about 750 m high saddle in the southeast between the sources of Gabelbach and Langebach forms a pass between Kickelhahn and neighbouring Hohe Tanne (850 m a.s.l.). Secondary summits in the Kickel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Beerberg
The Großer Beerberg is a mountain, , whose summit is the highest point in the Thuringian Forest and the state of Thuringia. It is located between the three villages of Heidersbach, Goldlauter and Gehlberg in the borough of Suhl. The mountain is made of rhyolite (quartz porphry) that was formed through volcanic processes in the Rotliegendes rock of the Oberhof Formation, about 280 million years ago,Lützner, H., Andreas, D., Schneider, J.W., Voigt, S. & Werneburg, W. (2012): Stefan und Rotliegend im Thüringer Wald und seiner Umgebung. In: Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission (publ.; coordination and production: H. Lützner & G. Kowalczyk für die Subkommission Perm-Trias): Stratigraphie von Deutschland X. Rotliegend. Teil I: Innervariscische Becken. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 61: 418–487. and which was uplifted over the surrounding sediments to form a butte. Between the summit of the Beerberg and that of its eastern neighbour, the Schneeko ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schneekopf
The Schneekopf near Gehlberg in the Thuringian county of Ilm-Kreis is and thus the second highest peak in the Thuringian Forest after its western neighbour, the Großer Beerberg (). The ''Adler'' Saddle between them is only about 59.4 metres lower than the two summits. To the east some distance away is its subpeak, the ''Sachsenstein'' (), to the south are the ''Teufelskreise'' () and ''Fichtenkopf'' (). The ''Goldlauterberg'' () further south marks the transition to the mountain of Großer Finsterberg (). Description The mountain is of volcanic origin and consists of porphyry. It is known for the Schneekopf balls (''Schneekopfkugel''), balls of porphyry ( druse) that occur here that form agate in the interior of crystals. They were formed during a volcanic eruption in the Permian. On the northern slopes of the mountain rises the Wilde Gera stream. From the summit plateau there is a good all round view of other summits in the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön mountains, o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adlersberg (Thüringer Wald)
{{Infobox mountain , name = Adlersberg , photo = , photo_caption = , elevation = {{Höhe, 593.2, link=false ({{convert, 593.2, m, ft, disp=output only, abbr=on) , elevation_ref = , isolation = 0.65 km Aschentalshalbe , isolation_ref = , prominence = 53 m Aschentalshalbe , prominence_ref = , range = Harz mountains , location = South of Sieber in Göttingen district in Lower Saxony , map = Germany Lower Saxony , map_image = , coordinates = {{coord, 51.68306, N, 10.41972, E, type:mountain_region:DE-NI_scale:100000, format=dms, display=inline,title , range_coordinates = , coordinates_ref = The Adlersberg is a hill in the Harz mountains of central Germany that lies south of Sieber in the district of Göttingen in Lower Saxony. It is 593.2 m high and is situated west of the Aschentalshalbe. It also separates the valley of ''Breitental'' ("wide valley") with its river, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inselberg
An inselberg or monadnock () is an isolated rock hill, knob, ridge, or small mountain that rises abruptly from a gently sloping or virtually level surrounding plain. In Southern Africa a similar formation of granite is known as a koppie, an Afrikaans word ("little head") from the Dutch diminutive word ''kopje''. If the inselberg is dome-shaped and formed from granite or gneiss, it can also be called a bornhardt, though not all bornhardts are inselbergs. An inselberg results when a body of rock resistant to erosion, such as granite, occurring within a body of softer rocks, is exposed by differential erosion and lowering of the surrounding landscape. Etymology Inselberg The word ''inselberg'' is a loan word from German, and means "island mountain". The term was coined in 1900 by geologist Wilhelm Bornhardt (1864–1946) to describe the abundance of such features found in eastern Africa. At that time, the term applied only to arid landscape features. However, it has sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Gleichberg
At , the Großer Gleichberg is the higher of the two adjacent mountaintops known as the Gleichberge east of Römhild in the landscape of Grabfeld and the county of Hildburghausen in the German state of Thuringia. It was formed in the Tertiary volcanic field of the Heldburger Gangschar and is the highest point today of that formation. With an isolation of well over 20 kilometres and a prominence of just under 300 metres, the Großer Gleichberg is one of the most striking mountains in Thuringia. In the Cold War period from 1968 to 1991 there was a military out-of-bounds area at the summit with a radio and radar station belonging to the Red Army. In 1942 it had been declared a protected area; today the Großer Gleichberg is a nature reserve. At the summit there is a former ein ehemaliger TV converter that broadcast television to southwest Thuringia and those areas of Bavaria near the border, but now just acts as a mobile phone transceiver. Basalt used to be mined in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station
The Goldisthal Pumped Storage Station is a pumped-storage power station in the Thüringer Mountains at the upper run of the river Schwarza in Goldisthal, Germany. It was constructed between 1997 and 2004. It has an installed capacity of , the largest hydroelectric power plant in Germany and one of largest in Europe.History and characteristics of Goldisthal pumped-storage power plant , VattenFall.com website, 6 February 2012. Retrieved October 2013. Facility The upper reservoir is located at an altitude of . It has an active (or usable) capacity of 12 million m³ and a surface area of 55 hectares. In order to create this basin, the mountain summit was cleared away. This stored quantity of water is enough for eight hours of operation. This corresponds to a max ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oelze (Katzhütte)
Oelze may refer to: * Oelze (river) of Thuringia, Germany * Oelze ( de), a village in the municipality Katzhütte, Germany People * Richard Oelze (1900–1980), German painter * Christiane Oelze Christiane Oelze (born 9 October 1963 in Cologne) is a German operatic soprano. From 2003 to 2008, she taught singing at the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf. Since 2010 she taught at the Masterclass of Apeldoorn (Netherlands), since 2011 at ... (born 1963), German soprano [Baidu] |
