The Friedrichskopf near
Brücken in the county of
Birkenfeld
Birkenfeld () is a town and the district seat of the Birkenfeld district in southwest Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is also the seat of the like-named ''Verbandsgemeinde''. The town itself has approximately 7,000 inhabitants.
Geography
...
in the German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate is and the highest mountain in the
Dollberge
The Dollberge are a small mountain range in the northern Saarland and the adjoining part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. They form a southeastern element of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald, a region in the Hunsrück mountains, and are ...
, a small range in the
Schwarzwälder Hochwald
The Schwarzwälder Hochwald (; literally 'Black Forest High Forest'), not to be confused with the High Black Forest, is the high south-western part of the Hunsrück in the German states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. SWRDer Schwarzwälder Ho ...
region of the
Hunsrück
The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...
mountains.
Geography
Location
The Friedrichskopf rises in the
Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park on the territory of
Brücken, a village which is 4.4 km southeast of the summit. About 2 km north-northwest is Muhl (in the neighbouring county of
Trier-Saarburg), 3.3 km east-southeast of
Abentheuer
Abentheuer is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Birkenfeld district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Birkenfeld, whos ...
, 2.7 km southwest of
Zinsershütten and 3.5 km north-northeast of
Börfink. On the southern slopes of the mountain rises the ''Bleidenbach'', a tributary of the
Traunbach. The source of the
Allbach, which feeds the
Prims, is on its western mountainside.
Parts of the
protected area
Protected areas or conservation areas are locations which receive protection because of their recognized natural, ecological or cultural values. There are several kinds of protected areas, which vary by level of protection depending on the ena ...
(''Landschaftsschutzgebiet'' or LSG) of ''Hochwald-Idarwald mit Randgebieten'' (
CDDA-No. 321654; designated in 1976, 471.8224
km² in area){{GeoQuelle, DE, BFN-Karten lie on the Friedrichskopf.
Natural regions
The Friedrichskopf is part of the
natural regional major unit group of
Hunsrück
The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued by the Taunus mountains, past ...
(No. 24), in the major unit of ''Hochwald and Idar Forest'' (242), subunit of the
Schwarzwälder Hochwald
The Schwarzwälder Hochwald (; literally 'Black Forest High Forest'), not to be confused with the High Black Forest, is the high south-western part of the Hunsrück in the German states of Saarland and Rhineland-Palatinate. SWRDer Schwarzwälder Ho ...
(242.0) and natural region of the ''
Dollberge
The Dollberge are a small mountain range in the northern Saarland and the adjoining part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. They form a southeastern element of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald, a region in the Hunsrück mountains, and are ...
and Herrstein Forest'' (242.02).
References
Mountains under 1000 metres
Mountains and hills of the Hunsrück
Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate