Holzstöcke
Holzstöcke | |
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![]() The Holzstöcke seen from the Iller valley near Kirchberg | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
Coordinates | 48°7′51.96″N 10°1′0.48″E / 48.1311000°N 10.0168000°E |
Dimensions | |
Area | 381.9 km2 (147.5 sq mi) |
Geography | |
Parent range | Alpine Foreland |
The Holzstöcke is an elongated, densely forested, mountain range running from north to south in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is up to about 700 m above sea level (NN)[1] and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres.[2] It is a large, terraced landscape that is part of the Iller-Lech Plateau in the Alpine Foreland of south Germany. It lies southwest of the city of Ulm in the counties of Alb-Donau-Kreis and Biberach in Upper Swabia and rises above the valley floors by about 75 metres.[2]
Mountains and hills
[edit]In the southern part of the Holzstöcke near Aitrach the hills gradually rise from heights of around 500 m above NN in the north near Illerkirchberg up to the 700 metre contour line in the south where there is an area of unnamed mountains and hills.
The following is a list of the named high points in the Holzstöcke – sorted by height in metres (m) above Normalnull (NN):[1]
- Runder Kopf (631.3 m), 1.3 km west-northwest of Erolzheim; with transmission tower and water tower
- Roter Berg (629.2 m), 1 km south-southwest of Erolzheim
- Frohberg (Kapellenberg; ca. 629 m), immediately south-southwest of Erolzheim; with Froberg Chapel and water tower
- Gehrn (Gern; 621.7 m), 2 km north-northwest of Berkheim
- Banberg (618.5 m), immediately west of Tannheim-Haldau
- Grafenberg (618.3 m), 2.5 km west-southwest of Kirchberg
- Totenkopf (615.6 m), 1 km east-southeast of Tannheim-Krimmel; with nearby Celtic schanze
- Weiherkopf (600.4 m), 1.3 km north-northwest of Erolzheim
- Schlossberg (568.4 m), 1.2 km southeast of Gutenzell-Hürbel-Niedernzell; with the site of Gutenzell Castle Location: 48°07′52″N 10°01′00″E / 48.1311°N 10.0168°E
- Weißenberg (550.9 m), between Iller and Weihung near Illerrieden Location: 48°15′41″N 10°02′30″E / 48.261299°N 10.041543°E
Gallery
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The Holzstöcke near Wain in the county of Biberach
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Panoramic view SW of Dietenheim
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The Holzstöcke in the valley of the Weihung, north of the hamlet of Grubach
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The Holzstöcke, south of Kirchberg on the Iller
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The Weihung is a small river that flows through the Holzstöcke.
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The Tannschorrenweiher on the Haslach Plateaux between Haslach and Tannheim
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Tannschorrenweiher
References
[edit]- ^ a b Kartendienste Archived 2012-12-19 at the Wayback Machine des BfN
- ^ a b Emil Meynen, Josef Schmithüsen: Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 issues in 8 books, 1:1,000,000 map with major landscape units, 1960).
External links
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- Natural region fact file Holzstöcke (043) – LUBW (pdf, 6,7 MB)
- BfN-Landschaftsteckbrief Holzstöcke – BfN (deutlich weniger ausführlich; etwas andere Grenzziehung, daher leicht erhöhte Fläche)