The Wasserkuppen Rhön or Wasserkuppenrhön, named after its highest peak, also the highest summit in the entire
Rhön Mountains
The Rhön Mountains () are a group of low mountains (or ''Mittelgebirge'') in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together. These mountains, which are at the extreme southeast end o ...
, the
Wasserkuppe
The is a mountain within the German state of Hesse. It is a large plateau formation at an elevation of and is the highest peak in the Rhön Mountains. Great advances in sailplane development took place on the mountain during the interwar peri ...
(), is an exposed highland ridge and
natural region in the
Hessian
A Hessian is an inhabitant of the German state of Hesse.
Hessian may also refer to:
Named from the toponym
*Hessian (soldier), eighteenth-century German regiments in service with the British Empire
**Hessian (boot), a style of boot
**Hessian f ...
county of
Fulda
Fulda () (historically in English called Fuld) is a town in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (''Kreis''). In 1990, the town hosted the 30th Hessentag state festival.
History ...
and
Bavarian county of
Rhön-Grabfeld. Together with the
Long Rhön
The Long Rhön (german: Lange Rhön) is a ridge in the Central Rhön which forms part of the High Rhön within the Rhön Mountains. The Long Rhön is an elongated basalt plateau in the centre, roughly 800 metres above sea level, which is only occa ...
and its
eastern flank it forms the
Central Rhön. The
Red Moor lies within this natural region.
Natural region grouping
The name ''Wasserkuppenrhön'' was defined in 1968 as part of the
natural regional division of Germany (
M = 1:200,000) as a
natural region and grouped as follows:
*''(to 35
East Hesse Highlands The East Hesse Highlands (german: Osthessisches Bergland) describes a heavily wooded range of hills lying mainly in the German state of Hesse, but also extending a little way into Lower Saxony to the north, Thuringia to the east and Bavaria to the s ...
)''
**''(to 354
High Rhön
High may refer to:
Science and technology
* Height
* High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area
* High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory
* High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...
)''
***''(to 354.1 Central Rhön)''
****354.10 Wasserkuppen Rhön
In the south the region is rather uniform, in the north and northwest it is dominated by foothills and isolated peaks. The land is almost treeless in the north whereas, in the south, coniferous and mixed woods form part of the landscape.
Mountains
The following mountains - sorted by height in metres above
sea level (NHN) lie within the Wasserkuppen Rhön:
*
Wasserkuppe
The is a mountain within the German state of Hesse. It is a large plateau formation at an elevation of and is the highest peak in the Rhön Mountains. Great advances in sailplane development took place on the mountain during the interwar peri ...
(950.0 m), between
Abtsroda and
Obernhausen
*
Abtsrodaer Kuppe (904.8 m), north spur of the Wasserkuppe
*
Pferdskopf (874.9 m), near Obernhausen
*
Mathesberg
Mathesberg is a mountain of Hesse, located in the Rhön Mountains
The Rhön Mountains () are a group of low mountains (or ''Mittelgebirge'') in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia co ...
(831.8 m), near
Wüstensachsen
Ehrenberg is a municipality in the Fulda (district), district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.
Geography
The municipality is located in the centre of the wildlife park "Hessische Rhön" in a level of 450 up to 900 meters and approx. 30 km from F ...
*
Schafstein (831.8 m), near Wüstensachsen
*
Eubeberg (ca. 820 m), near Obernhausen
*
Ehrenberg (816.5 m), near
Ehrenberg
*
Feldberg (815.2 m), near Obernhausen
*
Kesselstein (ca. 800 m), near
Mosbach
Mosbach (; South Franconian: ''Mossbach'') is a town in the north of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is the seat of the Neckar-Odenwald district and has a population of approximately 25,000 distributed in six boroughs: Mosbach Town, Lohrbach, N ...
*
Weiherberg (785.7 m), near Abtsroda and
Dietges
References
[Brigitte Schwenzer:'' Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 140 Schweinfurt'' –- Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg, 1968 â†]
natural region map
(pdf, 4 MB)
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Rhön Mountains
Mountain ranges of Hesse
Rhön-Grabfeld
Fulda (district)
Mountain ranges of Bavaria
Natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands