Hessisches Kegelspiel

The Hessian skittles is an arrangement of conical volcano mountains in the northwest, flattest part of the Rhön, in Hesse, Germany. The impressive dome accumulation is located in the counties of Hersfeld -Rotenburg Fulda and in the northwest part of the Rhön Mountains east of pus field and south of Schenklengsfeld.

Geology and history

The core of these peaks, which are called because of their uniformity and the number of mountains Hessian skittles, consists of mostly hexagonal basalt columns (see below stubble mountain ) that arose during the cooling of lava.

Legend has operated here giant bowling alley, the stubble Berg presented the ball dar.

Mountains

The actual nine mountains of the Hessian cone game are - sorted by height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL ):

• Soisberg ( 629.9 m), with Soisbergturm (AT)
• Stallberg ( 552.9 m)
• Appelberg (Rhön ) ( 531.5 m)
• Rückersberg ( 524.7 m)
• Kleinberg ( 521.5 m)
• Wissel mountain ( 517.8 m)
• Morsberg ( 466.4 m)
• Lichtenberg ( 465 m)

The Gehilfersberg (456 m), however, is not part of skittles, even if one could suspect it of geographical location after. The Hessian skittles stubble mountain Furthermore counts ( 523.9 m, with ruins of the castle Hauneck ), which lies in the west already outside the actual Rhön. This is from a popular mnemonic, which did not take account Hübels and Gehilfersberg:

" A weasel carries on his back an apple through a stubble field in a small, decaying barn in a clearing, so it is."

This Wissel, Rückers, Appels, Stoppels, small, Mors, stable, light and Soisberg are described as the nine mountains of the truncated game. An alternative, somewhat shorter form is: " It carries the little weasel on his clearance back across the moors and hills, the apple in the stable. So it is. "