Dammersfeld Ridge

Dammersfeld Ridge
Dammersfeld Ridge
	The Dammersfeldkuppe
Highest point
Peak	Dammersfeldkuppe
Elevation	927.9 m above NHN
Geography
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State	Counties of Bad Kissingen and Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria, and county of Fulda, Hesse, Germany
Range coordinates	50°23′49″N 9°51′44″E / 50.3969°N 9.8621°ECoordinates: 50°23′49″N 9°51′44″E / 50.3969°N 9.8621°E
Parent range	Southern High Rhön, High Rhön, Rhön

The Dammersfeld Ridge (German: Dammersfeldrücken) is a low mountain chain in the High Rhön in Germany, which begins on a line from Bischofsheim to Gersfeld and runs in a southwesterly direction to Riedenberg – – . The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the . Its highest point is the Dammersfeldkuppe, the second-highest mountain in the Rhön. The Bavarian-Hessian state border runs along the crest of the mountain chain.

Natural regions[]

The Dammersfeld Ridge was first defined in 1968 as a natural region as part of the natural regional classification of Germany at a map scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows:^[1]

(part of no. 35 East Hesse Highlands)
- (part of no. 354 High Rhön)
  - (part of no. 354.0 Southern High Rhön)
    - 354.00 Dammersfeld Ridge

Mountains[]

Dammersfeldkuppe (927.9 m; northwest of Wildflecken, in the southwest of the area)
- Dreifeldskuppe (832 m, west-northwest summit)
- Ottersteine (821 m, northern summit)
  - Bremerkopf 797 m
- (801 m, north-northwestern summit)
Eierhauckberg (910 m)
- Beilstein (865 m; west-southwestern summit)
Hohe Hölle (894 m)
- Himmeldunkberg (888 m, southern summit)
- (844 m, southwestern summit)
Mittelberg (880 m; almost a northeastern spur of the Eierhauckberg)
- Schachen (857 m; eastern summit)
- Rommerser Berg (850 m; northern summit)
- Zornberg (838 m, southern summit)
Rückberg (870 m, almost a southern spur of the Dammersfeldkuppe)
(851 m)
(843 m, with the )
Großer Auersberg (809 m)
Kleiner Auersberg (808 m)
Ehrenberg 674 m

View from the Kreuzberg northward to the Dammersfeld Ridge with Kleiner- and Großer Auersberg, Dammersfeldkuppe, Eierhauckberg and Himmeldunkberg.

References[]

^ Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 140 Schweinfurt - Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1968 → Online-Karte (PDF, 4 MB)

[Blatt_140-1] Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 140 Schweinfurt - Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1968 → Online-Karte (PDF, 4 MB)

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