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Eschkopf

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Prominence
  
138 m ↓

Parent range
  
Palatine Forest

Elevation
  
608 m

Isolation
  
13.9 km

Age of rock
  
about 251–243 MYA

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Mountain type
  
Sandstone: rocks of the Lower and Middle Bunter

Similar
  
Mosisberg, Schindhübel, Kesselberg, Roßberg, Rehberg

The Eschkopf near Hofstätten in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate (Südwestpfalz county) is a major hill, 608.3 m above sea level (NHN) high in the Palatine Forest.

Contents

Map of Eschkopf, 76848 Wilgartswiesen, Germany

LocationEdit

The Eschkopf is part of the Frankenweide, a rock massif in the centre of the Palatine Forest. The main Palatine Watershed runs over its summit, which rises about 3.4 km south of the village of Hofstätten (Südwestpfalz county) and 3.6 km (both as the crow flies) south-southeast of the hamlet of Johanniskreuz in the neighbouring county of Kaiserslautern. The hill is the northernmost of a line of four peaks that exceed 600 m. To the south, in sequence, are the Mosisberg (608.9 m), the Hortenkopf (606.2 m) and the Weißenberg (ca. 610 m). From the Eschkopf it is possible to walk to Leimen, Kaiserslautern-Mölschbach, Elmstein and via the forester's lodges of Taubensuhl and Heldenstein almost as far as Neustadt an der Weinstraße on continuous hill ridges without dropping below the 450 metre contour line.

References

Eschkopf Wikipedia


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