Morsberg

View from Hippelsbach south over the upper Gersprenztal on the towering Morsberg. From there, the Kainsbachtal pulls down to Gersprenz.

The Morsberg is an all outstanding northwestern pillar of sandstone - Odenwald on the border of the Near Odenwald. He belongs with the lying west of it mountains of the Neunkircher height and Melibokus the northernmost Odenwald peaks which rise to a height of over 500 meters. Its western and northern slopes be covered over a 100 meter high site level steeply until the crystalline basement of the Trommgranits in the west and the Böllsteiner Odenwald in the north comes to light. He is not a scenic mountain The dense forest cover. Nevertheless, he has mastered an impressive ago the valley of Gersprenz lowlands with a view from the north.

Good 1 km northwest of the summit height can be found on a mountain spur of the 404 meter high castle hill are the ruins of Beer Further chalet. Along the northern flank, known as Nibelungenstraße Federal Highway 47 rises curvaceous east to the explosive, the transition to Mümlingtal on. Beyond the explosive is the 443 meter high Heidelberg Böllstein area Morsberg the opposite. The Morsberg is the highest elevation of the Nature Area subunit 144.65 Wegscheidekamm in the sandstone -Odenwald. The ridge Wegscheidekamm extends from here about 7 kilometers to the south on the 502 meter high noise fire in the district top Mossau until Hiltersklingen in Streitbachtal.

The southeastern slope of Morsbergs is the headwaters of the Mossaubachs. This sets over the Marbach and then the Mümling 59.7 km to the Main back and thus 10 km more than the source of the water itself Mümling The River System Gersprenz donates the Morsberg also a series of short rivers. In the southwest, these are the Steinbach ( 2.6 km ), the river on which Margrund (1.0 miles), the river of the Vierstöck (2,3 km ) and north of the slightly longer Kainsbach (6.1 miles) starting.

The nearest villages are Kirch Beerfurth in the northwest and upper Kainsbach in the north. the all 1.5 kilometers away are. Rohrbach in the southwest and upper Mossau in the southeast are available with 3 or 4 kilometers further away.

The forested areas of the Morsbergs are accessed by a forest road that branches off to the snap of the B 47, the summit region surrounded and north of Upper Mossau leads to road L 3260.

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