Sängelberg

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The Sängelberg is a 665 m high mountain in the Taunus.

Location

The Sängelberg is in the Hoch-Taunus district in the district of the municipality Schmitten near the hamlet Oberreifenberg. It is located about 3 km north- west of the Great Feldberg and is one of the higher summits alone in the Taunus. The Sängelberg forms after Weilberg (701 m), the second highest peak in the eastern Hintertaunus. Four kilometers north rises the third- highest peak, the horse head ( 663 m). The mountain is entirely with forest, mostly beech forest existed. At the highest point is only a surveying stone. On a trending northward spur can be found in forest remnants of walls and moat of the castle ruins Hattstein. South of the mountain to the charming Wiesentälchen Schmitt reason concludes with a secondary source of Weil, Weil Born on.

Routes to the summit

The best impression of the mountain form to win the rise from the Weil Valley, beginning at a parking lot near Schmitten, up by a short Wiesentälchen the ruins of the castle Hattstein and on to the summit.