The Schiener Berg, also called the Schienerberg, is a

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between

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in the county of

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in the

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state of

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and

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in the district of

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, in the

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canton of

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. It is up to and part of the

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in the Southwest Hegau Uplands. The name is derived from the settlement of Schienen which is roughly in the centre of the region Schienen. – von der namensgebenden Ortschaft Schienen (auf ca. 600 m Höhe gelegen) aus im Uhrzeigersinn beginnend im Nordwesten betrachtet und die '' naturräumliche Lage'' mit einbezogen –

Geography

Location

The Schiener Berg lies west of the Untersee, the smaller of the two lakes forming

between these settlements (viewed clockwise around Schienen, 600 m, beginning in the northwest):

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to the northwest, Worblingen to the north-northwest, Bohlingen to the north, Bankholzen, Bettnang, Weiler and Iznang to the northeast, Gundholzen and

to the east, Gaienhofen to the east-southeast,

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to the southeast, Wangen to the south-southeast and Kattenhorn and

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to the south; they all belong to the county of Constance (''Konstanz'') and, apart from the first four, lie on the Untersee or its arm, the Zeller See. On Swiss soil, it is bounded by the following settlements in the canton of Schaffhausen:

to the southwest, Hemishofen to the west-southwest, Wilen to the west and Ramsen to the west-northwest.

Mountains and hills

The Schiener Berg is up to 715.6 m high, which it reaches at a point that lies about 1.5 km east of Schienen roughly east-northeast of ''Ferdinandslust'' and approximately northwest and above the source of the Klingerbach stream. The greatest height is often cited as 708 m, this point is around 1.7 km east-northeast of Schienen. The mountains, hills and spurs of the ridge include the following – sorted by height in metres (m) above

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(NHN) ( GE) and Meter über Meer (m ü. M.) ( CH): * unnamed summit near ''Ferdinandslust'' (715,6 m), near Schienen (D) * unnamed summit near the ''Ewigkeit'' (ca. 708 m), near Schienen (D) * unnamed summit at the ''Brand/Wittmisried'' (660,4 m), near Bohlingen (D) * Kressenberg (ca. 624 m), near Schienen (D) * unnamed summit at the ''Schlossbühl'' (617,5 m), near Weiler (D) * Wolkensteinerberg (ca. 608 m), near Hemishofen (CH) * Kastenbühl (587,4 m), near Bohlingen (D) * Salen (581,2 m), near Wangen (D) * unnamed summit at the ''Blatt'' (503,9 m), near Weiler (D)

References

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