Rother Kuppe is a mountain in

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Geography

The mountain is about 1.35 km southwest of the town of Roth, a locality in

Hausen, Rhön-Grabfeld Hausen is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, a ...

Geology

It consists primarily of a

basalt Basalt (; ) is an aphanite, aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the planetary surface, surface of a terrestrial ...

plate.

Description

It is 711 meters above sea level at its peak. The northeast flank is covered by forest. Southwest of the summit is a large meadow with old beech trees, one of which is 7.8 meters in circumference. The tree, however, has suffered greatly from the recent hurricane Kyrill. There is also a resort and club built on the summit open all year with a wide panoramic view of the area. Mountains of Bavaria Mountains and hills of the Rhön {{Bavaria-geo-stub