Schliffkopf

View from the ground head south

The sanding head is a mountain in the Black Forest between Baiersbronn, Ottenhoefen and Oppenau. Its altitude is 1053.6 m above sea level. NHN. The sanding head is located on the Black Forest High Road and is the location of the same four- star spa hotel. Several long-distance footpaths, including the western route, leading through the grinding head.

A 525 -acre area of ​​the high moor -like summit area is already designated as a nature reserve since 1938. 1986 was placed on the territory of the district Freudenstadt a further 889 hectares of area under protection. The sanding head is the headwaters for the Acher and the Murg.

End of June 2003 was opened with the cut head of windthrow adventure trail Lotharpfad. Along a 800 -meter-long learning and experience path on a ten acre windthrow area visitors can observe how, after and will re- colonized after the storm area, which was torn by intense low Lothar 1999. The Lothar path leads over bridges, ladders and stairs and shows how natural forces affect how nature deals with such an area and what emerges by itself.