Rabenstein (Kellerwald)

View from St. Peter's head in the Rabenstein gate with Affolderner lake and Rabenstein (center right); in the background the Wegaer Ederaue (wild Unger sink) with the Old Forest

The Rabenstein is a 439.3 m above sea level. NN high hill of the low mountain forest in the basement Affoldern in Waldeck- Frankenberg in northern Hesse.

Geographical location

The Rabenstein is located in the northeast of the forest within the basement and on the eastern edge of both the natural parks cellar -Edersee as well as the even more protected national parks cellar -Edersee. It rises south-west of the village Affoldern, in the municipality of Eder, and just south of the Affolderner lake. In its full back its mountain peak is 234.9 meters above the water level and 245.3 m above that of the Eder directly below the Affolderner barrage.

Nature Spatial allocation

The towering and thickly wooded Rabenstein is the easternmost mountain of the wild Ungerberg Lands ( natural area 344.2 ). It forms the southern flank of the Rabenstein gate, in which the Eder breaks from the Lake Eder trough to the east in the Wegaer Ederaue and thus into the wild Unger sink ( natural area 341.5 ).

Nature Conservation and Blue Pitsche

On November 4, 1999 72 ha of the Raven stone were placed for the purpose of " development of near-natural deciduous forest communities with an increased proportion of dead wood " under protection. South of the mountain summit lies in a valley a "Blue Pitsche " called pond of about 15 meters in diameter, which houses a wide variety of salamanders, which are all under protection.