Mooswaldkopf

Lookout on the Mooswaldkopf

The Mooswaldkopf is 879 m above sea level. NHN one of the highest mountain peaks in the middle of the Black Forest.

Regional and cultural - geographical significance

The Mooswaldkopf is patrimonial expected to pass Fohrenbühl. On the Mooswaldkopf ran from 1805 to the border between the Grand Duchy of Baden and the Kingdom of Württemberg. Before the Mooswaldkopf mostly belonged to the reign Schramberg. The Mooswaldkopf still forms the border between the municipality of Lauterbach ( Black Forest) and Hornberg.

Physical - geographical - geomorphological significance

In Mooswaldkopf is a witness mountain of red sandstone, which forms the Zeugenbergbundsandsteinamphitheater together with the High Reute forest, the moss forest and the Moosenkapf, which comprises the western Sulzbach ( district Lauterbach ). These individual witnesses mountains of red sandstone are also referred to as the " red sandstone coffin lid " of the Black Forest because of your characteristic coffin-like shape. Geographically exactly the sandstone coffin lid or witnesses mountains are referred to as eastern red sandstone slabs and witnesses mountains of the middle Black Forest. ( To what extent it is near the amphitheater Sulzbach actually is not finally resolved to date on witness mountain landscape or still is Inselsberg relics. )

Furthermore, the forests are known around the Mooswaldkopf among ecologists because of their high Ilex aquifolium - component, these are attributed to the fir Ilex forests of the Black Forest.