Erbacher Kopf

View over the vineyard Kiedricher Sandgrub to the Erbacher head, including the complex of buildings on the Hahnwald at Kiedrich, at the right Randburg Scharfstein, about the cut in the ridge line at Hausen vor der Höhe

The Erbacher head is a 580 m high mountain in the Taunus. The Erbacher head is a part of the main ridge of the Taunus and remains one of the Cold hostel and with the Hallgarter pliers to the three highest mountains in the Rheingau Mountains.

Geographical location

The Erbacher head lies in the Rheingau -Taunus-Kreis in the district of Erbach and whose highest summit. One can assume that the naming is due to this circumstance. At the same time Erbacher head is the highest point in the city of Eltville.

In the Erbacher head is a tightly with coniferous forest with stock summit plateau diameter of about 150 meters. It forms the eastern pillar of the extending of here four kilometers to the southwest to beyond the Cold hostel highest part of the ridge line, in which culminates the Rheingau Mountains. In this section comb, there is no point which is lower than 560 meters. To the south of Erbacher head drops to Kisselbachtal with the Kissel mill, the Goat and Bells and Kloster Eberbach steep.

Urban is the Erbacher head through the right bank Rheinhöhenweg, of the forest car park Ranger bitter oak crosses 1,500 meters to the northeast, the road from Kiedrich to Hausen vor der Höhe, starting the summit plateau clips from there to the north and then Kasimirkreuz to that between Cold hostel and Hallgarter pliers lying Waldparkplatz circle fir leads.

Because of the dense forestation of Erbacher head is not a mountain view. The nearest vantage point is at the Peerenboom Hut, which opened a forest clearing 1,500 m to the west the view to Erbach.

History

On the northern slope of the Erbacher head was about 500 meters over the centuries the Rheingau Gebück. Relics of the Middle Ages built from trees and hedges natural border fortification, built to protect the 983 since the archbishopric of Mainz belonging Rheingau from enemy attacks from the Taunus, can be found in the forest district Wolf back yet. Also give the names of the neighboring forest districts bulwark and Gebück of this past customer.