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Dammersfeld Ridge

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Elevation
  
927.9 m (3,044 ft)

Peak
  
Dammersfeldkuppe

Dammersfeld Ridge

State
  
Counties of Bad Kissingen and Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria, and county of Fulda, Hesse,  Germany

Parent ranges
  
Southern High Rhön, Rhön Mountains

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.

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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:

  • (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

    Dammersfeld Ridge Wikipedia
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