Essigberg

Telecommunications tower hawk forest on the mountain vinegar

The vinegar is a mountain at least 597.5 m above sea level. NN high northwestern foothills of Mount Tall Grass ( 614.8 m) in the High Hawk Forest, a part of the Goshawk forest highlands, in the Kassel district in northern Hesse. He is the third highest peak of the mountain range High Hawk Forest and the fourth highest of the nature park forest hawk.

Nationally known mountain is the vinegar as the location of the 186 m high telecommunications tower Hawk Forest, the second highest type tower in Germany.

Geography

Location

The wooded summit of vinegar mountain rises in the district of Kassel, in the area of ​​community forest hawk around 3.7 km south-east of the district Ehlen and about 700 meters west of the extreme western border of the independent city of Kassel. For High Grass there are about 1 km to the southeast (distances depending crow flies).

As well hidden in the forest, only gently rising and sprawling hilltop drops of vinegar mountain on the whole fairly high Habichtswald hardly noticeable. At vinegar mountain streams, among other springs the ancestor.

Watershed

Over the crest of the hill runs the vinegar " Diemel Fulda watershed ", which is a part of quite elongated Diemel-Eder/Fulda/Weser-Wasserscheide: The water of short streams (eg, Laubach, called the underflow Lubach ) that initially flow from the direction of the mountain west or north-west, reached earlier or later on the Warm the Weser inflow Diemel. The strive towards the streams running from the mountains or from adjacent high altitudes in northeastern, eastern and southeastern directions as ancestor, Drusel and Bauna to the Weser inflow Fulda.

Nature Spatial allocation

The vinegar mountain belongs to the physiographic feature unit group West Hessian mountain country and sinks ( number 34) or in the main unit hawk forests Bergland ( 342) for natural area High Hawk Forest ( 342.00 ).

Mountain height

The amount of vinegar hill is usually indicated with ( approximately ) 595 m, from contour lines can be seen in many cards and is sometimes advertised as digits. In fact, the mountain is at least 597.5 m high.

Telecommunications tower Hawk Forest

On the mountain vinegar is the telecommunications tower Hawk Forest of Deutsche Telekom AG, which was built in the mid -1970s. He stands 594.2 meters above sea level and is 186 m high. He's a guy tower and equipped with a transmitter of the Hessischer Rundfunk radio and TV. His entry is prohibited to the public.

View opportunity

From vinegar mountain you can enjoy beautiful views. For example, looking from the tower located in nearby trail parking lot and its surrounding area in western directions among others passing by Wattenberg, Weidelsburg, Isthaberg, Burghasunger Mountain and Big Bear Mountain across to the distant Rothaargebirge with the Upland. Between parking and tower stands a shelter.

Activities

Many ways in which you can walk for example to neighbors Tall grass, ideal for walks and hikes on the mountain vinegar. West around the mountain leads the Extratour H3 of the hawk forest walkway. Come In the cold season, when there is enough snow, many people with their sled on the mountain to the south of sledding hill top and telecommunications tower.

Approach

The vinegar can mountain by car via the wide -developed road connecting Ehlen -Kassel ( called from east to west " Druseltalstrasse ", " In Druseltal " and " Ehlener road "; country road 3298 ) be approached. From the east or west, turn slightly to the west of the highest point of this road north on the trail parking lot not far from the telecommunications tower designed, spacious ( not signposted ) from. You can also take buses KVG arrive.