The Womrather Höhe, at , is the highest peak in the
Lützelsoon
The Lützelsoon (also called the Kleiner Soon) is a part of the Hunsrück hills, , in the county of Bad Kreuznach, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Location
The Lützelsoon is a hill ridge southwest of the Soonwald range and north of ...
hills, which are part of the
Hunsrück
The Hunsrück () is a long, triangular, pronounced mountain range, upland in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is bounded by the valleys of the Moselle (river), Moselle-Saar (north-to-west), the Nahe (south), and the Rhine (east). It is continued ...
mountains in Germany's
Central Uplands
The Central UplandsDickinson (1964), p.18 ff. (N.B. In German die ''Mittelgebirge'' (plural) refers to the Central Uplands; das ''Mittelgebirge'' refers to a low mountain range or upland region (''Mittel'' = "medium" and ''-gebirge'' = "range").) ...
. It is located in the counties of
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis
Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis is a district () in the middle of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The neighbouring districts are (from north clockwise) Mayen-Koblenz, Rhein-Lahn, Mainz-Bingen, Bad Kreuznach, Birkenfeld, Bernkastel-Wittlich, Cochem-Zell.
His ...
and
Bad Kreuznach
Bad Kreuznach () is a town in the Bad Kreuznach (district), Bad Kreuznach district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is a spa town, known for its medieval bridge dating from around 1300, the Alte Nahebrücke (Bad Kreuznach), Alte Nahebrücke, ...
in the state of
Rhineland-Palatinate
Rhineland-Palatinate ( , ; ; ; ) is a western state of Germany. It covers and has about 4.05 million residents. It is the ninth largest and sixth most populous of the sixteen states. Mainz is the capital and largest city. Other cities are ...
.
The forested hill lies on the boundary between
Schlierschied (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis) to the northwest and
Kellenbach (Bad Kreuznach) to the southeast. It was named after the Hunsrück parish of
Womrath, 7 kilometres to the north, which owned 3 plots of land in the parish of Schlierschied below the Womrather Höhe until the major exchange of forest estates in the region in 1966.
Views over the Lützelsoon hills and their surrounding area are possible at the observation tower known as ''Langer Heinrich'' on the
Teufelsfels around 2 kilometres to the southwest.
References
External links
Private website about the Lützelsoon
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Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
Mountains and hills of the Hunsrück