Birkenberg

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The birch mountain is 547 m above sea level. NN is the second highest peak located in the Bavaria and Baden- Württemberg of Franconia.

The Birch Mountain is located in the Bavarian district of Ansbach 2 km north-northwest of rapid village and about 950 m west-northwest it is situated on the A6 exit " Quick village". The highway pulls parallel to his own course to just over 500 m above sea level. NN away on its southern foot of the slope, about 200 meters from its highest point. The mountain is an extending towards the west southwest ridge, just 900 meters from the summit there is the 536 m above sea level. NN high secondary summit of the mountain ox. On its northeast and east side moves to the Birkenberg the Heads of State or country road "L 2222" around which connects the Bavarian Quick village on the highway interchange with the Baden-Württemberg Michel Bach at the gap.

About 500 meters north of its summit rises at the northern foot of the slope of the mountain birch the Hengstbach from the thief source, it flows west and drained via the Wallhäuser Weidenbach ultimately to the Rhine. Approximately twice as far to the northeast lies the headwaters of the Heckel Bach on the southern slope of the Hornberg, this creek flows through initially 1.4 km east of the birch hilltop small Erlensee on which a camp site is located, and then dehydrated over Ampfrach and Wörnitz the Danube. Transverse to the morphological depression of the top two river valleys, which is used by the main road so it runs, over the saddle, the European watershed from the summit of Birch Mountain for about 1.5 km north-east of it lying of the Hornberg, is the highest mountain in the Swiss franc amount.

The heavily forested hilltop of Birch Mountain can be reached only on forest roads.

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Bavaria
• Mountain under 1000 meters
• Geography ( Landkreis Ansbach )
• Quick village