Schneifel
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View from White stone in Zitterwald southward with the Schneifel Towers of Prüm Air Station and transmitter Schnee Eifel
The Schneifel is a maximum of 699.1 m above sea level. NHN high, situated in Rhineland -Palatinate in the district of Bitburg -Prüm district and the volcanic Eifel mountain range in the western highlands of the Eifel.
On the Schneifel are the transmitter and the transmitter Bleialf Schnee Eifel.
Origin of the name
The term Schneifel has nothing to do with snow or Eifel: It derives from the earlier usage of this region and is as much as clearing. This path in turn went over the ridge. The term was then Schneifel " Germanized " in the time of the Prussians and the term Schnee Eifel, but which describes a larger area, was born.
Geography
Location
The Schneifel located a few miles northwest of the small town of Prüm, which is drained by the springing in the northeast part of the long-drawn and rather inconspicuous mountain range river Prüm. It runs from the village of Brand Scheid in the southwest to the municipality of Ormont in the Northeast. The border with Belgium, a few kilometers north-west of the mountain range.
Nature Spatial allocation
The Schneifel heard in the physiographic feature unit group Westeifel (No. 28) and in the main unit Western High Eifel (281 ) for subunit Schneifelrücken ( 281.0 ), with the for subunit Northern Schneifelvorland ( 281.1 ) counted natural areas fire Scheider Schneifelvorland ( 281.10 ) in the southwest and Manderfeld connect Schneifelvorland ( 281.11 ) in the northwest, the subunits Upper Kylltal ( 281.3 ) and Duppacher back ( 281.4 ) in the northeast and the main unit Islek and Ösling (280 ) scoring subunit southern Schneifelvorland ( 280.4 ) in the southeast and south.
Surveys
The highest elevation of the Schneifel is an unnamed notified body with 699.1 m ( ⊙ 50.2658888888896.3747777777778 ) height, just 1.5 km (airline ) ( 697.8 m) of the Black man ( second highest elevation ) is located northeast from the summit. After the Hohe Acht ( 746.9 m ) and the Ernst Berg ( Erresberg; 699.8 m ), it is also the third highest mountain in the Eifel.
Geology
The Schneifel represents a trunk mountain, the rest of the folded Palaeozoic Variscan in the high mountains. After a long period of erosion was lifted in geologically recent ( Quaternary ) again. In places, the old Verebnungsflächen are apparent which peaking single distinctive ridges of harder rock. Such is the existing of quartzite EMS backs of Schneifel. The long mountain range towering above the little articulated old plateau at about 100 m and demonstrates the resilience of the local quartz rock against the forces of weathering.
Also striking is his Schneifel longitudinal extent of 15 km with an average width of only 2 km, which stretches with only a few meters in altitude of fire Scheid up against Ormont at Stadtkyll, where it ends with the Steinberg ( 657.8 m).
Winter sports
In the winter months the snow is here mostly for the longest time throughout the Eifel, so that over a longer period winter sports can be operated. On the mountain Black man there is a winter sports resort of the same name.
Buildings and transmitters
The Schneifel is covered over its entire length of Bunker ruins of the built 1938-1940 West Walls. On their heights also include the transmitter and the transmitter Bleialf Schnee Eifel and the remains of the former U.S. radar station Prüm Air Station.
Transport and Hiking
About the Schneifel runs the country road 20, which comes from Ormont in the Northeast, the crosses of Roth bei Prüm, running through Knauf Pesch to Prüm federal highway 265 at the Forest House Schneifel and located beyond its near the Black man ( 697.8 m) Summit ( 699, 1 m) leads southwest to fire Scheid. In many places, parking is available. The landscape can be traversed on several forest roads and paths, for example on the Schneifelhöhenweg.