The Zeller Blauen (more rarely: ''Hochblauen'') is a mountain, , in the southern
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 ...
in
Germany
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. It belongs to
Zell im Wiesental
Zell im Wiesental is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated in the Black Forest, on the river Wiese, 26 km northeast of Basel, and 32 km south of Freiburg.
The town is famous for being the b ...
in the
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
Lörrach
Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including the ...
.
The mountain, with its steep slopes to the south, west and east, dominates the
Wiese valley north of the town of Zell and towers above it by more than 600 metres. To the north a ridge runs from the forested summit region of the Zeller Blauen, between the
Kleines Wiesental in the west and the Wiesental in the east, to the
Belchen
The Belchen, , or Black Forest Belchen (german: Schwarzwälder Belchen) is the fourth-highest summit of the Black Forest after Feldberg (Black Forest), Feldberg, Seebuck and Herzogenhorn. The municipalities of Münstertal, Black Forest, Münstert ...
10 kilometres away.
Along the southern flank of the Zeller Blauen are the remains of
military earthworks. On the west mountainside, at an elevation of about 700 to 800 metres in the parish of
Adelsberg, are the hamlets of Blauen and Oberblauen.
In a 1788 Black Forest map at
St. Blaise Abbey the mountain is annotated as ''"auf dem hohen Blauen"'' ("on the high Blauen"). In the 1846 atlas, ''Topographischen Atlas ueber das Grossherzogtum Baden'', it is called "Hochblauen".
[Todtnau. Sheet XI.2 in: ''Topographischer Atlas ueber das Grossherzogtum Baden.'' Karlsruhe, 1846]
online
This description is also common for the mountain of
Blauen, twelve kilometres away to the west-northwest.
Zeller Blauen 1.JPG, View from South
ZellerBlauen22.jpg, View from Southwest (Adelsberg)
Häg-Ehrsberg Landschaft Bild 2.jpg, View from Northeast
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One-thousanders of Germany
Mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg
Mountains and hills of the Black Forest
Lörrach (district)
Baden