Stiefelhöhe

Sub - Abtsteinach, behind Hardenberg, centering forest and boots height (from left)

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About the Boot Height runs from northeast to southwest, the border between Hessen and Baden- Württemberg. The boot height is 584 m above sea level. NN is the fourth highest mountain in the Odenwald.

Geographical location

The main part of the summit dome in the Hessian circle mountain road lies in the sub - district of the municipality Abtsteinach Abtsteinach. The northeast slopes are part of the district of Wald- Michel Bach. The southeast side of the frontier is part of the district Eiterbach the community Heiligkreuzsteinach. Here, near the summit, is more than 580 meters, the highest point of the Rhein- Neckar district.

The boots height, together with the subsequent Hardenberg in the north and the intervening center forest a thickly forested ridge that rises as a bastion on the edge of the sandstone - Odenwald on the west adjoining usually significantly lower mountains of the Odenwald Crystalline.

Use and infrastructure

The forests are a hiking area with an extensive and excellent road network. Southwest of the summit of the boots height is located in a former quarry on the border to Baden side in 505 meters height the whole year (not every day ) managed Boots cottage that has emerged from a shelter for the quarry workers. It is connected via a forest road with a few hundred meters away sub - Abtsteinach. The abandoned quarry is also often used as a climbing area.

In a valley of the East slope of the light Klinger farm is

Maps

• Hessian Landesvermessungsamt: TF 20-9, The Überwald. Topographic Recreation Map 1:20,000. Wiesbaden: Hessian Land Survey Office, 2000, ISBN 3-89446-293-0