High Eifel
With Eastern High Eifel, oftmal simply high Eifel or High Eifel, of the 648 km ² large eastern part of the central mountain range Eifel region of Rhineland -Palatinate ( Germany ) is referred to, in which particular its by far the highest elevation, the Hohe Acht ( 746.9 m above sea level. NHN ) is located. The natural area is geared to the eastern and central part of the vague resolution in individual mountains main ridge of the East Eifel. Geographically, it represents a so-called main unit and transmits the code number 271
About the Name
The main ridge of the East Eifel provides, in addition Schneifel, High Venn, Monschau- Bright Thaler forest plateau and the significantly west of its landscape and lying entirely in Belgium ridge between the Amel in the north and the Ourthe Orientale in the South, only one of several highlights focal points of the Eifel and Ardennes is, all of about 700 m height reach - a height that exceeds the Eastern high Eifel only on the Hohe Acht. The somewhat distant from the Eastern High Eifel High Fens -Eifel uses the term high Eifel also in terms of the Central West Eifel ( with Schneifel ). The terms Western and Eastern are misleading as both landscapes are clearly separated from each other by the Kalkeifel and not about the West and describe the east wing of a coherent landscape.
Geography
Location
The Eastern High Eifel lies between Adenau in the northwest, Schalkenbach in the extreme northeast, Mayen in the East, Emperor Esch in the southeast, elms in the south, down in the southwest and Dockweiler in the West. Inside are particularly Kelberg, the Nürburg and South Loop and roughly the southeastern half of the Nordschleife of the Nürburgring.
To the south the landscape changes in the Moseleifel (main unit 270 ) about to the west in the Kalkeifel ( 276) north to the Ahreifel ( 272) and to the east in the Lower Middle Rhine area (292 ) with the Laacher volcanoes and the Mittelrheinische pool ( 291 ) with the May Field.
The neighboring area in the southwest, consisting of the northern part of the Eifel Mosel and the Southeast of Kalkeifel is better known as the volcanic Eifel. Here the highest volcanic activity was in the Eifel Quaternary, while the scattered peaks of the Eastern High Eifel come from older, tertiary volcanism. At the interface of the three main units of the volcanic Eifel region is narrow in west-east direction, and immediately southwest of the main ridge is continued by the Prümscheid as part of Kyllburger Waldeifel (277 ).
Nature regions
The Eastern High Eifel region was defined in the manual of the biogeographic division of Germany in the years up to 1960 as a natural spatial main unit and 1974 further subdivided on the refining Journal Cochem:
- (at 27 East Eifel ) 271 East High Eifel 271.0 Olbrücker Eifel edge
- 271.1 Kempenich Tuffhochfläche
- 271.2 / 3 Central Eastern High Eifel 271.2 Hohe Acht / Nitz - Cute - Bergland 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- 271.21 Nitz - Cute - forest
- 271.40 Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland
- 271.41 Üßbachbergland
- 271.42 Garbage Bacher Riedelland
- 271.43 Medium Üßbachtal
As Eastern High Eifel in the narrower sense, the units can be viewed 271.0 to 271.41 - 271.42 and 271.43 units rather the neighboring Moseleifel (main unit 270 ) are commonly attributed. The Variscan disorder, the geologically separates the High Eifel from the Mosel Eifel, runs to the Eifel in the southwest starting from Wollmerath over east Auderaths up to the highest mountain, where it changes its direction from North to northeast until it expires at Mayen. The last basaltic peaks are found just south-east of this line and mark a geomorphological height threshold.
Main ridge
The highest mountains of the Eastern High Eifel line up along a ridge line, which continues in the Prümscheid beyond the volcanic Eifel. This follows the ridgeline, like most ridgelines in the Rhenish Slate Mountains, about Hunsrück, Taunus main ridge and the ebb - Homert threshold in the Sauerland, the Variscan southwest-northeast direction. Within the Eifel exist further north still more combs in this orientation:
- The Schneifel back
- The Edgewood - back, whose German northeast part is also called Zitterwald
- The High Fens
The main ridge of the East Eifel runs, however, neither high areally ( High Fens, Hunsrück as total Crest) still gratartig (individual ridges of the Hunsrück), and between these extremes ( Schneifel ). Rather, the highest elevations are only ever approximately along the ridge line, which is also repeatedly interrupted by slight incisions. The only deeper incision is the valley of Trier Bach at Kelberg. North-east of the valley lies the (Eastern ) High Eifel in the narrow sense, on the watershed between Ahr and Cute. The towering over the main unit also provides the southwest part over in the main watershed between the Mosel tributaries Lieser (east) and Kyll (west) dar.
From West ( Valley of the Kyll between Mürlenbach (N) and Densborn (S)) to northeast ( Königsfelder Eifekrand at Schakenbach ) lie along the main ridge on or near the ridge line following mountains along with height above mean sea level ( the parent of the natural environment; deviations to southeast or northwest are declared ):
- Prümscheid ( for Kyllburger Waldeifel ) (SO) Salmwaldforst ( 619.3 m)
- Rödel Kaut ( 592.3 m)
- (SO) Prümscheid ( 674.6 m)
- (NW) Dietzenley ( 617.6 m)
- (SO) Nerother head ( 651.7 m), Dauner Maargebiet ( Eifel )
- Schartenberg ( 691.4 m)
- Vulkan Eifel ( in the northwest Dockweiler volcanic Eifel, Kalkeifel, in the southeast Dauner Maargebiet, Moseleifel ) Ernst Berg ( 699.8 m)
- (SO) Assenberg ( 601.5 m)
- ( Waldkönigen, at the two volcanic Eifeln separating Pützborner Bach)
- Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland Dreiser height ( 610.8 m)
- Schillberg ( 615.2 m)
- (NW ) bars Berg ( 599.6 m)
- (SO) unnamed knoll in Suhr Büsch between Kelberg and Boxberg (approx. 614 m)
- ( Trierbachtal between Kelberg (SO ) and waste stream (NW) )
- (significantly offset by SO ) Hochkelberg ( 674.9 m)
- High - eight- Bergland Red tail ( 639.9 m)
- (NW) Castle Hill of Nürburg (approx. 678 m)
- (SO) Reuter mountain ( 652.1 m)
- Hohe Acht ( 746.9 m)
- (SO) Raßberg ( 664.9 m)
- Schell head ( 652.7 m)
- Schöneberg ( 670.2 m)
- Bockshahn ( 643.7 m)
- (NW) Düsseldorf mountain ( 607.0 m), Southern Ahrbergland ( Ahreifel )
- Perlerkopf ( 579.1 m)
Mountains
To the mountains of the High Eifel ( High Eifel) include - sorted by height in meters ( m) above mean sea level ( MSL, if not specified otherwise, loud) and with details of the nature of space:
- Hohe Acht ( 746.9 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Castle Hill of Nürburg (approx. 678 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Hochkelberg ( 674.9 m) - 271.40 Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland
- Schöneberg ( 670.2 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Raßberg ( 664.9 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Schell head ( 652.7 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Reuter mountain ( 652.1 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Bockshahn ( 643.7 m) - 271.1 Kempenich Tuffhochfläche
- Red tail ( 639.9 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Peak Mountain ( 616.4 m) - 271.3 Elzbachhöhen
- Schillberg ( 615.2 m) - 271.40 Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland
- Unnamed knoll in Suhr Büsch between Kelberg and Boxberg (approx. 614 m) - 271.40 Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland
- Dreiser height ( 610.8 m) - 271.40 Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland
- Bars Mountain ( 599.6 m) - 271.40 Trier Bach -Lieser- source Bergland
- Perlerkopf ( 579.1 m) - 271.0 Olbrücker Eifel edge
- Hocheichen ( 588.7 m) - 271.20 High - eight- Bergland
- Hochsimmer ( 587.9 m) - 271.21 Nitz - Cute - forest
- Goose neck ( 575.3 m) - 271.1 Kempenich Tuffhochfläche
- Gallberg ( 569.8 m) - 271.3 Elzbachhöhen
- Stones Berger Ley ( 557.8 m) - 271.41 Üßbachbergland
For a list of these and other Eifel mountains and surveys see the list of mountains and elevations of the Eifel.
Climate
Despite altitudes between 600 m and 700 m, the high Eifel is located in the rain shadow of the upstream to the west Schneifel. The annual precipitation is between 800 mm and 1000 mm.