The Baldenweger Buck is a mountain top, , in the
Black Forest
The Black Forest (german: Schwarzwald ) is a large forested mountain range in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southwest Germany, bounded by the Rhine Valley to the west and south and close to the borders with France and Switzerland. It is t ...
around 900 metres northeast of the
Feldberg summit.
The bare ridge drops steeply towards the west, north and east into the surrounding valleys of the
Zastlerbach
The Krummbach is a left tributary of the Dreisam in the Southern Black Forest east of Freiburg im Breisgau in the German state of Baden-Württemberg
Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwe ...
and
Seebach. Only towards the south does it transition into a shallow saddle (1,452.8 m) that links the Baldenweger Buck with the Feldberg top.
With its low
isolation of 520 metres and a
prominence
In topography, prominence (also referred to as autonomous height, relative height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop or relative height in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contou ...
of only 7.7 metres to the Feldberg, the Baldenweger Buck is not considered to be an independent eminence, but a subpeak of the Feldberg. As a result, the second highest summit in the Black Forest is usually seen as the lower, but more prominent,
Seebuck
At a height of the Seebuck is the second highest mountain the Black Forest after the Feldberg It is located in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.
Geography
The mountain rises in the Southern Black Forest immediately southeast of the ...
.
A
waymark
Trail blazing or way marking is the practice of marking paths in outdoor recreational areas with signs or markings that follow each other at certain, though not necessarily exactly defined, distances and mark the direction of the trail.
A blaz ...
ed footpath runs over the Baldenweger Buck from the ''
Rinken'' via the ''Baldenweger Hut'' to the summit of the Feldberg.
References
External links
* 1:25,000 topographic map at {{GeoQuelle, DE-BW, GeoView, ref=nein
One-thousanders of Germany
Mountains and hills of the Black Forest