Roßkopf (Breisgau) is a mountain 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 ...

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 member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...

. The high Rosskopf is a mountain in the

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 the northeast of

Freiburg Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population of about 230,000 (as o ...

and the southeast of

Gundelfingen Gundelfingen im Breisgau ( Low Alemannic: ''Gundelfinge im Brisgau'') is a municipality directly north of the city Freiburg in Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. Gundelfingen is one of the larger municipalities in the Breisgau-Hochschwarz ...

. It is on the edge of the territory of the city between the

Glotter Glotter is a river of in the Breisgau region in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany which is approximately 30 km long. The spring of this river is located at an altitude of 1040 m amsl on the eastern slope of the Kandel near Neuwelt, ...

valley and the

Dreisam The Dreisam ( Celtic: ''*tragisamā'', "the very fast one") is a 29 km long river (48.8 km including its source river Rotbach), and a tributary of the Elz in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The waters of the Dreisam feed the fa ...

valley. On the Roßkopf the borders of Gundelfingen, Freiburg and the formerly independent municipality Ebnet (today Freiburg-Ebnet) meet. Several border stones in the forest give evidence of the development of the municipal boundaries.

Trails

The section of the

Kandel Kandel () is a town in the Germersheim district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, near the border with France and approximately 18 km north-west of Karlsruhe, and 15 km south-east of Landau. Kandel is twinned with the small Lancashir ...

trail from Sankt Peter, Baden-Württemberg to

crosses the mountain. The Rosskopf is a mountain for mountain bikers (part of the mountain bike trail and easy to reach from

and the surrounding villages. Only some of the trails have been released for cyclists and parts of the forest on the Roßkopf are under special protection as

protected forest A nature reserve (also known as a wildlife refuge, wildlife sanctuary, biosphere reserve or bioreserve, natural or nature preserve, or nature conservation area) is a protected area of importance for flora, fauna, or features of geological or ...

. Below the tower on the Roßkopf is the starting point for an approximately two miles long downhill trail that starts on the Rosskopf and leads to the youth hostel of Freiburg.

Martinsfelsen

To the north of the summit of the Roßkopf lies the Martinsfelsen, a rock at an altitude of , which offers a view of the Northern Breisgau.

Roßkopfturm

At its summit and next to a small hut is the Roßkopf tower (Roßkopfturm or Friedrichsturm), a 115 ft high observation tower of steel frame structure which was built in 1889 and offers a panoramic view of

, the Kaiserstuhl mountain range and the surrounding mountains.

Wind turbines

In 2003, four

wind turbine A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. Hundreds of thousands of large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, now generate over 650 gigawatts of power, with 60 GW added each yea ...

s were installed on the Rosskopf by the enterprise Regiowind GmbH, each with a capacity of 1.8 MW, and new access roads were created. The turbines of the type Enercon E66/18.70 that were taken into operation in November 2003 have a hub height of and a rotor diameter of , thus a total height of . Together with the two other wind turbines on the Holzschlägermatte on the Schauinsland they produced over 12 million kilowatt hours of energy in 2010 which corresponds to the requirement of 5400 households.

Photos

File:Aerial View - Rosskopf1.jpg, From the air File:Freiburg - Blick vom Fahnenbergplatz 6.jpg, From the west

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