Dammersfeldkuppe

The Dammersfeldkuppe (Bayern ) is 927.9 m above sea level. NHN after the water dome ( 950.2 m; Hessen ) and before the Kreuzberg ( 927.8 m; Bavaria ) is the second highest mountain in the Rhön, a low mountain range in Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The Dammersfeldkuppe is located in the district of Bad Kissingen (Bavaria) and the district of Fulda (Hessen ) within the " High Rhön ". Your hilltop located in Bavaria about 200 m southeast of the border between Hesse Gersfeld ( Hesse), Brückenau and wild spots (both Bayern).

The entire mountain is occupied by the military training area wild spots, surrounded by the Bavarian Rhön Nature Park and Biosphere Reserve Rhön.

About the Dammersfeldkuppe the Rhine -Weser watershed runs. On the northern flanks of Mount arise, for example, with the Gichenbach inflows of Schmalnau, more flowing water on the Fulda in the Weser, on its southern flank the little sense of the Bavarian name of the Narrow sense, the water on the meaning, Franconian Saale and the Main Rhine accrue.

Truppenübungsplatz - people march

Because being on the Dammersfeldkuppe a part of the training area wild spots, he is normally closed to the public. A tradition, however, which continues the Bundeswehr after the withdrawal of American forces from wild patches (1994 ), the time on the last weekend of July, the annual folk days of hiking through the military restricted area. It is possible to hike the otherwise inaccessible terrain and the hilltop on prescribed routes.