Brilon Plateau

View looking southwest over the Brilon Plateau towards Brilon from between and Thülen)

View from the Itzelstein on the edge of Brilon looking north across the Brilon Plateau

Unnamed high point (51°25′4.9″N 8°41′13.3″E / 51.418028°N 8.687028°E; 545.1 m) in Am Battenberg Nature Reserve

Brilon Plateau: path north of the (2014), 7 years after Kyrill

Brilon Plateau: path between the Borberg and the Hiebammen Hut (2014), 7 years after Kyrill

The Brilon Plateau (German: Briloner Hochfläche) is a highland area in the county of Hochsauerlandkreis in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is surrounded by the Brilon Heights (Briloner Höhen), whose mountains reach a height of 670.2 m above sea level (NHN).^[1]

Geography[]

Location[]

The countryside of the Brilon Plateau and Brilon Heights includes the town of Brilon itself and several of its municipalities. Administratively it belongs largely to Hochsauerlandkreis, in the northeast, near , it is part of the county of Paderborn. It is roughly elliptical in shape; its longitudinal axis running from east-northeast to west-southwest.

To the north and northeast it transitions via the Alme Uplands into the . In the east and southeast it descends into the very deeply incised valley of the Hoppecke. In the south it is adjoined by the Sauerland and Upland (landscapes in the Rothaar Mountains); in the west by the Warstein Forest (the eastern part of the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park) and in the northwest by the narrow Haarstrang. In the north the terrain descends (on the far side of Sintfeld and Haarstrang) more or less gently into the Westphalian Bight towards the River Lippe. The plateau forms an island of farmland in the middle of forested mountains and hills.

Mountains and hills[]

The mountains and hills of the Brilon Heights include the following (sorted by height in metres (m) above sea level (NHN):

(670.2 m)^[1] – southwest of Brilon
(620.1 m)^[1] – northwest of Hoppecke
(606.2 m)^[2] – südwest of Brilon
(605.0 m)^[1] – south of Brilon
Weiße Frau (562.5 m)^[3] – east of
(536.4 m)^[2] – east of Brilon
Totenkopf (502.6 m)^[1] – west of Marsberg
Schaaken (500 m)^[3] – east-northeast of Brilon
Schälhorn (499.1 m)^[1] – east of
Bulstern (482.3 m)^[2] – west of
Schweinskopf (481.4 m)^[1] – east-southeast of
Schellberg (472 m)^[3]

Literature[]

Gerd Petermeyer (1982), Zur Morphogenese der Brilon Plateau und des Sintfeldes (Dissertation) (in German), Düsseldorf
Wolfgang Feige (1970), Die Briloner Hochfläche: Landschaftsführer des Westfälischen Heimatbundes 07 [The Brilon plateau: landscape guide of the Westfälische Heimatbund 07] (in German), Münster: Aschendorff Verlag, ISBN 3-402-06343-3

Footnotes and references[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Topographic Information Management, Cologne - NRW GEObasis Division (info)
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Height based on unknown or un-researched source

Coordinates: 51°25′12″N 8°37′50″E / 51.42000°N 8.63056°E / 51.42000; 8.63056

[DE-NW_TIM-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Topographic Information Management, Cologne - NRW GEObasis Division (info)

[DE_BFN-Karten-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

[UQ-3] Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c Height based on unknown or un-researched source

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