Burgholz (mountain)

View from the Amoeneburg on the Gilserberger Heights with the 380 -meter high castle wood (left) and on the underlying basement forest with 657 m high Hohen Lohr (left, TV Tower ), the 585 m high Jeust (center) and the 675 m high desert garden (right). In the left foreground, the city church grove.

The Castle Wood is a 380 m high mountain in the Gilserberger heights near Kirchhain in Marburg- Biedenkopf, at the top or northeast slope, the same Kirchhainer district castle wood is. He is, apart from a swath around the district, completely forested.

Geography

The Castle Wood is the most south-westerly mountain of Gilserberger heights and goes in the northern city of Kirchhain immediately above the Amöneburg Basin, while to the west the valley of Wohra followed, beyond the Southern Castle Forest ( from the North, "actual" separated by the B3) begins. On its outer flanks are the places Emsdorf (in the east ), higher ground parts of a long stone and church grove ( in the south), the city Rauschenberg (already in and out of the valley of the Wohra, in the west ), Ernst Hausen ( north valley ) and Wolferode ( also a valley, in the north- east).

Despite its small height of the castle wood has, as it towers over the Amoeneburg scarce, a dominance of no less than about 10 km, which is north through the northern elevations of the same ridge, which are already very close to the ( much higher ) Basement forest, broken.

View

On the top of Castle Wood is a wooden observation tower, the 360 ° allround view to Kahlem Asten, Ziegenhelle, Bollerberg and bagpipe is ( 841/816/757/674 m high, in the Rothaargebirge ) to Dünsberg, Rimberg ( per 498 m) and other surveys of Gladenbacher mountain country, for up to 636 m high Knüll, for up to 675 m high basement forest and to 773 m high mountain bird offers.

  • Mountain in Europe
  • Mountain in Hesse
  • Mountain under 1000 meters
  • Mountain in Marburg- Biedenkopf
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