Hainpracht

The bagpipe and the belonging to the same natural area Large Hardenberg (570 m), Hain superb ( 631 m) and Hassenroth ( 621.6 m) from the mountain of Christians in the castle forest; in the foreground the Wetschaft Valley

On the wooded mountain, which is a well-known and popular tourist area, there are, for example, the Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower, granted the view among others the Rothaargebirge, the transmitter Biedenkopf and a ski lift.

• 2.1 Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower
• 2.2 Leisure Centre bagpipe
• 2.3 bagpipes lifts

Geography

Location

In the southern part of the Rothaargebirge the bagpipe rises in the west of Hesse at the suture line of the counties of Waldeck- Frankenberg (north) and Marburg -Biedenkopf (south). East of Wittgenstein country it is located in the wooded and spacious forest Hatzfeld Hatzfeld between the north and the south Biedenkopf.

Although the bagpipe is not one of the highest mountains of up to 843.2 m high Rothaargebirge, it transcends its immediate surroundings but clearly with a predominance of at least about 8 km. Since the peak area is extremely broad in mountain direction (north -northeast ), it comes that, while the highest point is significantly lower in the Hatzfelder district and thus in Waldeck- Frankenberg, but for example, the position of the transmitter Biedenkopf in Biedenkopfer urban area with around 665 m is only slightly below the maximum. Therefore, the bagpipe is also the highest mountain in the district of Marburg -Biedenkopf and is marketed via the Biedenkopfer Stadtentwicklungsgesellschaft accordance with this feature, while Waldeck-Frankenberg in Upland is home to much higher mountains.

By car, the bagpipe is approached via an intermediate Hatzfeld - Eifa and Biedenkopf branching from the B 253 dead end.

Natural space bagpipe

The natural space bagpipe ( number 333.3 ) is in the system of natural spatial breakdown Meynen part of the main unit 333 - Rothaargebirge. To the west separates it of the powder stream from Wittgenstein mountain land that belongs to the same main unit, to the south borders the Upper Lahn Valley as part of the Gladenbacher highlands (main unit 320 ) to which the natural area already for the Westerwald (main unit group 32 ) is counted.

The transition to the bagpipes - Vorhöhen to the southeast runs comparatively fluent approximately along the line, from the not reach the summit, the 600 - m limit, while connecting to the north by the valley of the Eder or shortly before the Hatzfelder Bergland. Both natural areas include, for Ostsauerländer mountainous border (main unit 332 ), such as the eastern slopes of the Rothaargebirge is called. You heard how the mountain itself also to the main unit group 33 - Southshore Hills.

Overall, the natural space bagpipe the easternmost foothills of the immediate surroundings of the Rhine -Weser watershed within the Rothaargebirge dar. Almost all rivers flow either directly north to the Eder, and south into the Lahn, where both rivers is only about four miles from watershed flow away in an easterly direction.

Mountains

Some of the surveys of the natural environment bagpipe - sorted by height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ):

• Bagpipe ( 673.3 m)
• Wieschen ( 652 m, slight elevation in the southwest of the main peak area )
• Buchholz ( 643.0 m, west)
• Hain superb ( 631.0 m, south-east of the main summit, the northernmost city of Biedenkopfer mountains )
• Hassenroth ( 621.6 m, kuppiger mountain in the southeast at Dexbach )
• Rabenkopf ( 601.0 m, south-southwest from Buchholz)
• Heiligenberg ( 588 m, south-southwest of Hassenroth )
• Steckelberg ( 580.5 m, between the grove splendor and Hassenroth )
• Corner side ( 501 m, northern mountain town Biedenkopf )
• Big Mountain Ash ( 464 m, eastern mountain town Biedenkopf )
• Schlossberg ( 386.2 m, central mountain town with castle Biedenkopf )

Watercourses

From west to east, ordered the following creeks and rivers flow through the natural area (where the river Lahn, Eder outside and all other rivers originate within the natural space ):

• Eder
• Lahn Powder stream (6.2 km, western border river )
• Hainbach I ( 5.5 km, 7.4 km ²)
• Weifenbach (4.2 km, 7.7 km ²)
• Hainbach II (4.4 km, 5.5 km ², route of B 253)
• Treisbach or, in the source course, Engelbach ( 16.8 km, 68.2 km ²; drained eastward along the country road 3091 on the Wetschaft in the Lahn)

Watershed

About the Summit of the bagpipe runs a portion of the hiesig running in east-west direction of the Rhine -Weser watershed. This means that all the rivers that originate on the northern slope of the mountain, drained by the Fulda and Eder in the north flowing into the Weser, while those that occur on its southern flank, to the south and west striving on the Lahn with the Rhine flow.

Recreation room

Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower

At the top of the bagpipe is the Kaiser Wilhelm II Tower, an observation tower and a popular excursion and hiking destination. The tower is a natural stone masonry, was built of stones around. The construction was carried out in 1913 in honor of William II. , He performed with high manual effort and with little technical aids. Farmers from the surrounding villages were involved in the construction; their cow - carts were used to transport the stones. In the years 2011-2013 there was a renovation.

The tower is 25 meters high.

The observation deck of the tower is open to the public - on payment of a small donation to the receipt of the tower. The path to the platform starts via a short external staircase and then via an internal spiral staircase. The platform has been made recently with a weatherproof roofing and glazing.

The tower is accessible from the parking lot on the mountain over a 500 m long path or of Hatzfeld over a 5 km long hiking trail. From up there, the view over large parts of the Hessian highlands reaches past the TV tower on the Angelburg up to the Feldberg in Taunus, but also to the basement Forest, crumpled and Vogelsberg. In a northerly and westerly direction one looks far into the Rothaargebirge.

Leisure center bagpipe

Adjacent to the tower is the managed Lahn- Eder- hut. In addition, there are on the bagpipe a 480 m -long summer toboggan run, a chair, a petting zoo, a Western and Indian village, a playground, bumper cars, a sensory trail, a bungee trampoline, picnic areas and hiking trails. In winter, the bagpipe winter sports area with a natural ice - skating rink, cross-country skiing groomed trails ( 5.0 and 5.6 miles), a floodlit slope, a chairlift, a ski school and a toboggan run for sled with tow. There is a cultivated mountain hut on the ski slopes. The use of skidoo is also permitted; in the heyday of the sport even a World Cup race for skidoo on the bagpipe was held.

Bagpipes lifts

The bagpipes lift is a 1978 erected 443 meters long double chairlift climbs along a ski slope on a southern spur of the mountain, the 652 m high Wieschen; its summit is 1,150 m south-southwest of the bagpipes summit. It has a maximum speed of 2.2 m / s and a maximum capacity of 800 people per hour. Another, older lift is designed as a drag lift and transported now primarily luger the parallel rowing course.

Cultural Terms

The extensive grounds around the bagpipes Summit is a venue of cultural uses.

• Due to the exposed altitude takes place annually on the morning of Ascension, ie typically in May, on a site midway between parking and Kaiser Wilhelm II tower is an open air church service. Following this, the day is celebrated there in socializing with draft beer dispensing and brass band in the Weifenbacher musicians.
• Every seven years in August, taking a forest area at the beginning and to the left side of the large parking lot on the role of the breakfast place the first of three days of border crossing in Biedenkopf.

In addition to the cultural use there is on the site of the bagpipe occasionally events with more commercial and tourism -promoting character, such as a potato festival ( not to be confused with the traditional potato roast in Biedenkopf ). The local ski club held at the visitor parking area annual Skibasar; there ( children's) winter sports clothing and the like from the owners ski equipment offered.

Transmitter

The bagpipe is the location of the transmitter Biedenkopf. The great tower (210 meters high ) in the transmission system is a scenic striking feature of the mountain and therefore visible from many surrounding hills in even from a distance.