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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 ...

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Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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The Hohwart (occasionally also Hohwarthöhe or Hohwart-Höhe) is a mountain near the village of

in the

in the German state of

. It is 1,123 metres high.Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landentwicklung Baden-Württemberg (publ.): ''Wanderkarte Hochschwarzwald – Feldberg/Schluchsee'', 4th edn., Stuttgart, 2009.

Wind generator

On 26 May 1992 a wind generator was built on the Hohwart Saddle, not far from the summit of the Hohwart. It was one of the first

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each year. ...

s in

. It is an Enercon type E-32/E-33 with a 3-blade rotor and a hub height of 33.5 m.

Schanze on the Hohwart

On the Hohwart is a

schanze A ''schanze'' () is, according to the specialist terminology of German fortification construction, an independent fieldwork, that is frequently used in the construction of temporary (not permanent) field fortifications.Rüstow: ''Militärisches Han ...

. It was part of the baroque fortifications in the Black Forest. It was a square ''schanze'' in which there were log cabins. The ''schanze'' on the Hohwart was not linked by a bank-and-ditch system to its neighbouring ''schanzes'', the ''Schanze auf dem Haldenbuck'' and the ''Ringelschanze'' on the Roßberg.Baroke Schanzen im Schwarzwald
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References

Mountains and hills of the Black Forest One-thousanders of Germany