The Hohe Stoppelkopf, locally just called the Stoppelkopf, is a 566.2-metre-high hill in the
Palatine Forest in the German state of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; german: link=no, Rheinland-Pfalz ; lb, Rheinland-Pfalz ; pfl, Rhoilond-Palz) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the ...
. It lies 3 km north of the small town of
Lambrecht.
Together with the
Drachenfels (577 m) to the northwest and the
Stabenberg (496 m) to the east, the Stoppelkopf lies on the
watershed between the
catchment area
In human geography, a catchment area is the area from which a location, such as a city, service or institution, attracts a population that uses its services and economic opportunities. Catchment areas may be defined based on from where people are ...
s of two
Palatine
A palatine or palatinus (in Latin; plural ''palatini''; cf. derivative spellings below) is a high-level official attached to imperial or royal courts in Europe since Roman times. Rhine
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tributaries, the
Speyerbach
The Speyerbach is a left tributary of the Rhine in the Palatinate part of Rhineland-Palatinate. In Speyer, the river split into ''Gießhübelbach'' and ''Woogbach''. The Woogbach changes its name to ''Nonnenbach'', then flows into Gießhübe ...
(south) and the
Isenach (north). The two longest tributaries of the
Mußbach rise on the Stoppelkopf; both later empty into the left mouth branch of the Speyerbach, the
Rehbach
Rehbach is an '' Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Bad Sobernheim ...
.
Attractions
About 110 metres north-northeast of the summit of the Hoher Stoppfelkopf a
hunting lodge was built in 1900, the
Hermannshütte (also called the ''Emil Leidner Hut''),
which is unmanaged. At the top a
summit cross was erected in 2003 by the Deidesheim Branch of the
Palatine Forest Club
The Palatine Forest Club (german: Pfälzerwald-Verein) is a hiking club in the former Bavarian Palatinate, i.e. the southern part of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland county of Saarpfalz-Kreis. In 2011 it had 221 local ...
.
About northeast of the Stoppelkopf lies the
deer
Deer or true deer are hoofed ruminant mammals forming the family Cervidae. The two main groups of deer are the Cervinae, including the muntjac, the elk (wapiti), the red deer, and the fallow deer; and the Capreolinae, including the re ...
conservation park, the
Kurpfalz Park,
which is accessible from
Wachenheim
Wachenheim an der Weinstraße (formerly called ''Wachenheim im Speyergau'') is a small town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, roughly 1 km south of Bad Dürkheim and 20 km west of Ludwigshafen. It is known ...
on a well-developed
tarmac road (8 km).
References
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Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
Mountains and hills of the Palatinate Forest