Mühlenstein

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The mill stone is 607.2 m above sea level. NN is the third highest mountain in the Kaufunger forest and is a border mountain of the district of Kassel, in Hesse and North of the district of Göttingen in southern Lower Saxony ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The mill stone is 1.6 km southeast of the mountain pass Umschwang 6.75 km east of the municipality Nieste and just 3.25 km ( straight line ) southwest of Kleinalmerode, a western suburb of Witzenhausen.

On the narrow point in the range of wooded mill stone northern Hesse and southern Lower Saxony lies in the east to the west; the mountain summit rises nearly 100 meters to the southeast of it in Hesse. Along this border is also a part of the border of the nature park Meissner Kaufunger forest runs (Hessen) to the Natural Park Munden (Lower Saxony), its summit is part of the first-mentioned nature park.

The elongated West West foothills of the mill stone is the "House ridges ," his north-western neighbor is the Haferberg ( 580.4 m ) and its southeasterly of Bilstein ( 641.2 m). With the Haferberg it is connected over the pass Umschwang (446 m), with the Bilstein over a part at the Gebörne over 600 m high mountain ridge.

Nature Spatial allocation

The mill stone belongs to the physiographic feature unit group Osthessisches Bergland (No. 35) and in the main unit Fulda- Werra- Bergland ( 357) to the natural areas Kaufunger Forest Plateau ( Front Kaufunger Forest) ( 357.71 ) in the west and Rear Kaufunger Forest ( 357.72 ) in the east; the border of both the subunit Kaufunger forest and Söhre ( 357.7 ) belonging to natural areas extending approximately in a horseshoe shape around its summit east region.

Watershed

About the mill stone runs a portion of the watershed between Fulda in the west and Werra in the Northeast, because all of the region of the mountain westward flowing streams, such as near the Umschwang springing Wenge Bach, accessible via the Nieste the Fulda, while all running in a northeasterly direction over hunger homes or houses Wilhelm Bach Werra aspire.

Weyland Memorial

Approximately 200 m north-northeast, slightly located below the mill stone summit the Weyland Memorial ( about 580 m above sea level. NN ), which is reminiscent of Franz Weyland loud there more appropriate inscription, which crashed here on April 20, 1913 at a balloon ride in a thunderstorm and there was not found until 27 April of the same year.

Hiking

You can reach the mill stone, lead to the no roads, for example during a period beginning on Umschwang hike on the Mother Hulda path that passes its peak about 700 m southwest; of this path, a path branches off to the summit.