Traddelkopf

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The Traddelkopf is with 626.4 meters above sea level. NN by desert garden, Hoher Lohr and Big Aschkoppe the fourth highest mountain in the Central Mountains basement Forest, the highest peak in the located in the northern part Eder heights and is Gellershausen in northern Hesse Waldeck- Frankenberg.

Geographical location

The heavily forested Traddelkopf rises into the heights Eder, a mountain region whose area is approximately congruent with the National Park basement Edersee. The latter is surrounded by the natural park basement Edersee. It is located about 2.5 km west of Gellershausen, the southwestern district of Eder, whose municipal area of ​​the mountain part, and about 2.5 km north of Frebershausen, the westernmost district of Bad Wildungen. Both villages are located on Wesebach, a southwestern tributary of the Eder. To the north of the mountain springs of Bach Large kitchen as left-sided inflow of Keßbachs, which flows into the Lake Eder north across the Banfebach ( Banferbach ).

Nature and Conservation

The Traddelkopf forms with its south-western outskirts, the maple head ( 604.1 m above sea level. NN ), a large, old beech forest. On the western edge of the maple head is in the neighboring municipality of Frankenau the 1989/1990 Founded and 57 -acre former nature reserve Ruhlauber ( NSG-Nr. 165 248, now merged into the National Park Keller - Lake Eder). The nature reserve, where there is no forestry use and the sooner - mostly free of undergrowth and dead wood - was a poor structure and single- Hall forest, gradually developed into the natural forest. Flora and fauna are left to themselves. In some places thrive to 200 year old beech trees.