Dammersfeld Ridge

Dammersfeld Ridge
The Dammersfeldkuppe
Highest point
Peak	Dammersfeldkuppe
Elevation	927.9 m (3,044 ft)
Geography
State	Counties of Bad Kissingen and Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria, and county of Fulda, Hesse,  Germany
Range coordinates	50°24′N 9°52′E / 50.4°N 9.86°E / 50.4; 9.86Coordinates: 50°24′N 9°52′E / 50.4°N 9.86°E / 50.4; 9.86
Parent range	Southern High Rhön, High Rhön, Rhön

The Dammersfeld Ridge (German: Dammersfeldrücken) is a 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 – Werberg – Maria Ehrenberg. The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the Wildflecken Training Area. 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
  • Dalherdakuppe (801 m, north-northwestern summit)
• Eierhauckberg (910 m)
  • Beilstein (865 m; west-southwestern summit)
• Hohe Hölle (894 m)
  • Himmeldunkberg (888 m, southern summit)
  • Teufelsberg (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)
• Reesberg (851 m)
• Simmelsberg (843 m, with the Simmelsberg winter sports area)
• Großer Auersberg (809 m)
• Kleiner Auersberg (808 m)
• Ehrenberg 674 m

References

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