Taubenkopf (Haardt)
The pigeons head at Diedesfeld the territory of the county- town of Neustadt on the Wine Route in Rhineland -Palatinate is a 603.8 m above sea level. NHN high secondary summit of Kalmit in the Palatinate Forest belonging Haardt mountain range.
Geography
Location
The pigeons head is in the biosphere reserve Palatinate Forest -Vosges du Nord and in the Palatinate Forest Nature Park. Its summit rises 3.7 km west of the village church of Diedesfeld, a district of Neustadt on the Wine Road, 100 m southwest of the provincial road 515 ( Kalmithöhenstraße ) and 525 m (each distance) northeast of the Kalmitgipfels. The pigeons head heard as the width Berg ( 545.2 m), the weather Kreuzberg ( 400.7 m), the mountain hut ( 620.1 m) or the pulpit ( 531.7 m) to the foothills of the Kalmitmassivs ( 672.6 m).
Nature Spatial allocation
The pigeons head is part of the natural environment " Palatinate Forest ," which is classified in the scheme of the 3rd order issued by Emil Meynen and Joseph Schmithüsen manual of the biogeographic division of Germany and its Nachfolgepublikationenals Greater Region. Looking at the internal structure of the natural environment, so it belongs to the Middle Palatinate Forest and here the mountain range of the Haardt, which delimits the Palatinate Forest to Upper Rhine plain back.
In summary follows the natural spatial allocation of the pigeons head so that the following system:
Miscellaneous
Before a storm damage and subsequent Abholzarbeiten the crest was shaped like a pigeon head. Due to the clear-cutting results in a 270 - degree view of West ( in the Palatinate Forest ), North ( High Loog ) via West ( Klausental, summer mountain and the Rhine valley ). few other surveys that height with a lack of forest cover are so far advanced into the Rhine valley.
Hiking
On the pigeons head is a hub where several trails that together find about 20 meters below the summit. These are the path from the skull via the tap step (marked blue and white ) leave the main trail Maikammer ( white-green ) and the menhir path between Klausental and Diedesfeld ( without colored marking).