Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
n county of
Oberallgäu
Oberallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu, the Austrian states Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the district of Lindau, and the state of ...
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 ...
county of
Ravensburg
Ravensburg ( Swabian: ''Raveschburg'') is a city in Upper Swabia in Southern Germany, capital of the district of Ravensburg, Baden-Württemberg.
Ravensburg was first mentioned in 1088. In the Middle Ages, it was an Imperial Free City and an impo ...
is and thus the highest mountain in Ravensburg, in the province of Tübingen (Baden-Württemberg) and the
Adelegg
The Adelegg is a forested, mountain range, up to and 112 km² des range, although within the Adelegg region it is topped by the Ursersberg (1,129 m). An observation tower, the Schwarzer Grat Tower stands at the summit.
Geography
Location
The Schwarzer Grat stands in the southwest of Baden-Württemberg and belongs to the small mountain range of
Adelegg
The Adelegg is a forested, mountain range, up to and 112 km² des , which is roughly north of the
Allgäu Alps
The Allgäu Alps (german: Allgäuer Alpen) are a mountain range in the Northern Limestone Alps, located in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in Germany and Tyrol and Vorarlberg in Austria. The range lies directly east of Lake Constance.
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and extends far into the northern
Alpine Foreland
The Alpine Foreland, less commonly called the Bavarian Foreland,Dickinson, Robert E (1964). ''Germany: A regional and economic geography'' (2nd ed.). London: Methuen, pp. 585-586. . Bavarian Plateau or Bavarian Alpine Foreland (german: Bayerisches ...
. The boundary with Bavaria and the county of
Oberallgäu
Oberallgäu is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the north and clockwise) the districts of Unterallgäu and Ostallgäu, the Austrian states Tyrol and Vorarlberg, the district of Lindau, and the state of ...
runs just under 300 metres southeast of the top. The summit rises 1.8 km south-southwest of Eschachthal, a village in the Bavarian municipality of
Weitnau
Weitnau ( Low Alemannic: ''Witne'') is a municipality in the rural district Oberallgäu in Bavaria/Germany. Together with the neighboring municipality of Missen-Wilhams, Weitnau shares an administrative unit.
Geography
Weitnau is situated in t ...
, and 2.3 km (
as the crow flies
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The expression ''as the crow flies'' is an idiom for the most direct path between two points, rather similar to "in a beeline". This meaning is attested from the early 19th century, and appeared in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel '' Oliv ...
) north-northeast of Bolsternang, a village in the Württemberg municipality of
Isny im Allgäu
Isny im Allgäu ( Low Alemannic: ''Isny im Allgai'') is a town in south-eastern Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is part of the district of Ravensburg, in the western, Württembergish part of the Allgäu region.
Isny was a Free Imperial City (' ...
.
Around 950 metres south-southeast of the top of the Schwarzer Grat on the state border rises the peak of the
Raggenhorn
Raggenhorn is a mountain of Baden-Württemberg, 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, and the most populous mem ...
(1,056.2 m); beyond that is the
Weitnau
Weitnau ( Low Alemannic: ''Witne'') is a municipality in the rural district Oberallgäu in Bavaria/Germany. Together with the neighboring municipality of Missen-Wilhams, Weitnau shares an administrative unit.
Geography
Weitnau is situated in t ...
village of
Wengen
Wengen () is a mountain village in the Bernese Oberland of central Switzerland. Located in the canton of Bern at an elevation of above sea level, it is part of the Jungfrauregion and has approximately 1,300 year-round residents, which swells to ...
(Bavaria). Southeast and below the Schwarzer Grat, on the slopes of the Raggenhorns, lies the ''Wenger Eggalm'' (also ''Wengener Egg Alpe'' or ''Alpe Wenger Egg''), a mountain pasture.
To the east the slopes of the Schwarzer Grat descend to the little stream of ''Rotenbach'', a southwestern tributary of the Eschach, which flows to the north of the mountain. On the southwestern flank is the source of the ''Eisenbacher Tobel'' which flows roughly north and empties into the ''Eisenbach'' before also joining the Eschach. On the southern flank of the mountain rises the little ''Scheidach'', a northeastern tributary of the Wengener Argen in the catchment area of the
Untere Argen
Untere Argen is a river of Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria, Germany. Its source is near the village Börlas in southwestern Bavaria. It passes along Isny im Allgäu and Wangen im Allgäu. At its confluence with the Obere Argen near Neukirch, the ...
.
References
Literature
* Helber et al.: ''Isnyer Heimatkunde'', Eigenverlag der Stadt Isny im Allgäu, 1st edn., 1990
* Helber: ''Über die Adelegg – Beiträge zur Geologie, Geschichte, Landwirtschaft und Forstwirtschaft der Adelegg'', self-published by the author, 1985