Höchsten

Site of the Supreme

Summit area

The Most High is with 837.8 meters above sea level. NHN is the highest elevation in Baden-Württemberg in Germany Linzgau, also the highest non belonging to the Swabian Alb survey in the district of Sigmaringen and the highest between the Hegau volcanoes and the Allgäu.

Geography

Geographical location

The Most High is located on the border between the Lake Constance with the community Deggenhausertal in the south and the district of Sigmaringen with the community Illmensee in the north. The community Wilhelm village in the district of Ravensburg has shares in the mountain. On the ridge, which belongs to Illmensee closed village glassworks and belonging to Deggenhausertal hamlet Rubacker lie.

Watershed

About the Most High, the Rhine-Danube watershed, which is part of the main European watershed runs. All streams that run from the mountains to the north, accessible via the Andelsbach and Ablach the Danube and thus the Black Sea. Accordingly counter firstly flow the aspiring to the south and west river on the Deggenhauser Aach and extending to the southwest of Linz Aach ( Rear Aach ) and secondly, the initially flowing eastward streams on the current flowing in the south rotách each in Lake Constance, so in the Rhine and finally into the North Sea.

Climate

The climate on the Supreme is due to the height and the exposed position significantly rougher than in the comparatively mild conditions in the valleys of Deggenhauser Aach and rotách.

Flora

The Supreme is one of the few surveys in the foothills of the last ice age ( Würm ) that were not completely covered by glaciers. Also, why not have survived remnants of alpine vegetation. Due to the cultural landscape of Upper Swabia and their farming activities they have been pushed back a few square meters up on the part.

Tourism and Sport

The view of Lake Constance and the Alps makes the Most High has become a popular tourist destination. Especially in late autumn and early spring it is used by the residents in the lowlands of Lake Constance. From Wilhelmsdorfer district Zußdorf a five-kilometer trail passes through the bed Reuter forest on the Supreme.

At the highest is Germany's first permanent race track mountain for cyclists. The Stoppomat stands on the church parking lot Beautiful mill at Urnau. Since 2006, used as 22.000mal cyclists and runners Stoppomat plants annually. The track record is held by Jörg Ludewig from the professional team Wiesenhof.

On July 21, 2011 and July 23, 2012 the FKU wore eV from the Germans Mountain Championships of German Cycling Federation ( BDR). In this case a time was extended below 16 minutes in 2011 24 times. The record for the once a year taking place Lightweight Uphill now stands at 14:47 minutes ( as of 2011).

Since 2007, the Friends Uphill wearing on New Year's from a Sasioneröffnung of Stoppomat. The otherwise closed in winter Zeitmeßstation is opened and received the participants at the destination station in a heated marquee with hot drinks for 2 hours. In 2014, another record number of participants was achieved with 324 time acquisitions.

Winter sports can be operated in the form of cross-country skiing on different trails. Due to the topographical situation they are about 30 years of the most varied in the region. Overall, the cross-country on Supreme 21 km in four loops. Add to that an exercise loop with the length of one kilometer. Starting points there are in Oberhomberg, Limpach, Glassworks, the highest mountain inn and at the viewpoint Supreme. The route Homberg - Limpach is the route with the most meters of altitude. In good weather and snow conditions is added a panoramic route that belongs to four kilometers in length to the most promising candidates towards Lake Constance. The trails have because of the powdery snow consistency sometimes floor contact and on the plateaus occur in isolated cases to drifts. The geographic position of a snowmobile with an attached tracking device is used for making tracks, which the municipality has Illmensee and Deggenhausertal, the conveyor Deggenhausertal and the tourism community Gehrenberg -Bodensee financed.

Dialect boundary

Bodenseealemannisch of the Highest shall south, north Schwäbisch spoken. The highest mountain inn maintains around the gazebo the Swabian-Alemannic Mundartweg with celebrities path. On presentation boards, the walkers can learn about the language border and Swabian or Alemannic words and phrases to know. In addition, find themselves on the trail the footprints of Erwin Teufel and other celebrities in concrete. The Mundartweg is kept as free as possible even in winter.

Transmitter Ravensburg

On the Highest is the 171 meter high transmitter Ravensburg.

Attractions

• At the top of the Most High, with a sculpture of the art of blacksmith Peter Klink realized from Denkingen watershed project.
• On the northwestern foothills of the Most High, to the rim for Deggenhauser valley, are the elongated Rappenfelsen.
• Pavilion: Just south of the highest point of the Most High is a viewing pavilion. A installed in 2007 panorama board serves to navigate in the Alpine foothills and Alps.