Limpurg Hills

Limpurg Hills
Limpurg Hills
	The Limpurg Hills in the central eastern part of the Swabian-Franconian Forest
Highest point
Peak	Altenberg
Elevation	564.7 m above NHN
Geography
Location	Counties of Schwäbisch Hall and Ostalbkreis, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Range coordinates	48°57′48″N 9°54′07″E / 48.963444°N 9.90194°ECoordinates: 48°57′48″N 9°54′07″E / 48.963444°N 9.90194°E

The Limpurg Hills (German: Limpurger Berge) are a hill range, up to 564.7 m above sea level (NHN),^[1] in the Swabian-Franconian Forest in the counties of Schwäbisch Hall and Ostalbkreis in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The majority of the region belonged formerly to owned by the family of Schenken von Limpurg, whose name was derived from their family home, near Schwäbisch Hall.

Geography[]

Location[]

The Limpurg Hills lie about 55 kilometres northeast of Stuttgart and around 60 kilometres (both as the crow flies) east-southeast of Heilbronn, between the Haller Ebene to the north, the Ellwangen Hills to the east and southeast, the Frickenhofer Höhe to the south, the Mainhardt Forest to the west and the Waldenburg Hills to the northwest. They lie southeast of Schwäbisch Hall, west of Sulzdorf, Obersontheim, Bühlertann, Bühlerzell and Adelmannsfelden and extend as far as the Blinde Rot river, northwest of Abtsgmünd. , Sulzbach-Laufen, Gaildorf, and Michelbach an der Bilz lie immediately west of the forested upland region.

Its striking geomorphological boundaries are the escarpment in the north that drops down to the Haller Ebene, the Buhler valley to the east and the great bend of the Kocher valley gorge to the south and west. To the southeast the Limpurg Hills run with the very narrow and long Unterjura Plateau of the down to the mouth of the Blinde Rot.

Hills[]

The highest point of the Limpurg Hills and of the county of Schwäbisch Hall is the Altenberg (564.7 m), east of Sulzbach am Kocher, on which there is an observation tower, the Altenberg Tower. Better known, however, is the Einkorn (510 m), south of Hessental, which rises above the Hohenloher-Haller Plain, and forms a prominent, westward-running spur of the northern edge of the forest region.

Several summits in the following list of high points in the Limpurg Hills (organized by height in metres above sea level (NHN)), only rise slightly above the very flat plateau of the larger western chain of the hills and, when seen from outside the range, may scarcely be viewed as individual peaks. The smaller and lower, but more deeply incised eastern chain, by comparison, has many more named individual summits.^[1]^[2]

Altenberg (564.7 m), ca. 500 m east-southeast of Sulzbach am Kocher-Hohenberg, with the Altenberg Tower, prominent individual peak in the western hill chain
Höfenberg (555.3 m), ca. 550 m southeast of Abtsgmünd-Höfenhölzle, highest part of the on its northwestern slopes
Herschel (522.1 m), ca. 1,5 km west of the Gaildorf hamlet of Winzenweiler
Streitberg (514.4 m), ca. 2,5 km east-northeast of Gaildorf-Eutendorf
Bauernschnäue (512.3 m), ca. 2 km southeast of Schwäbisch Hall-Hessental, starting point of the insignificant eastern chain
Krämersreute (511.3 m), ca. 1 km west-southwest of the Gaildorfer hamlet of Eisbach
Einkorn (510 m), ca. 1 km southeast of Hessental railway station, northwest spur
Rauher Berg (508.0 m), ca. 2,5 km west-southwest of Schwäbisch Hall-Sulzdorf, eastern chain
(504.0 m), ca. 2 km south-southwest of Sulzdorf, eastern chain
Neuberg (499.1 m), ca. 2,5 km southwest of Sulzdorf, eastern chain
Berg (472.9 m), ca. 1 km northeast of Obersontheim-Herlebach, eastern chain
Adelberg (466.9 m), ca. 2 km southeast of Rosengarten-; with the barely discernible Buchhorn (463.4 m) it is a small independent massif in front of the western chain
Eichelberg (463.2 m), immediately northwest of Sulzbach am Kocher, western chain, mouth spur of the Eisbach
Häuserberg (449.2 m), about 1,5 km south-southwest of Obersontheim-Hausen, eastern chain
Leippersberg (447.6 m), about 1,5 km west-northwest of Bühlertann-, mouth spur of the Fischach and southern end of the eastern chain

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
^ enhanced by Geodata viewer of the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Geoinformation and Land Development (Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landentwicklung Baden-Württemberg) and topographic map, 1:25,000 series.

External links[]

Media related to Limpurg Hills at Wikimedia Commons

[DE_BFN-Karten-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

[2] y Geodata viewer of the Baden-Württemberg State Office of Geoinformation and Land Development (Landesamt für Geoinformation und Landentwicklung Baden-Württemberg) and topographic map, 1:25,000 series.

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