Area 381.9 sq km | ||
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Peak 700 m (Points on the boundary with the Riß-Aitrach Plateaux) | ||
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) and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres. 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.
Mountains and hills
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):