Wollenberg (hill)

View from the southeast to the Wollenberg (right); left the hilltops Damshäuser Feiselberg follow (413 m), Rimberg ( 498 m) and hungry (412 m)

The Wollenberg is a 474 m high, fully wooded hill in the district of Marburg -Biedenkopf, Hesse. He is one of the easternmost hills of the Rhenish Massif. On its highest peak was once the castle Eckel church, of which only remnants exist today.

Location

Southwest of weather rises of around 14 km ² national forest weather -West. The mountain consists of three main peaks Norn (422 m above sea level. NN ) in the north and the southern Wollenberg ( 467 m) and Eckel Church ( 474 m). He towers over the Wetteraner upper town after all, about 200 m and the known Christians mountain ( 387 m) in Munchausen by almost 90 m. Is framed by the woodland belonging to weather Locations Amönau and upper village in the north, warts, in the western and the Lahntaler Brungershausen districts in the Southwest, Caldern ( North ) in the south and Sterzhausen in the southwest.

Nature Spatial allocation

The Wollenberg is the ( south- ) eastern of the bagpipes - Vorhöhen, the chamfering the Rothaar to the 674 meter high bagpipe to the east and form as part of the Ostsauerländer mountainous rim of the Ostabschluss Süder mountain country or the Rhenish Slate Mountains.

With the actual bagpipes - Vorhöhen the Wollenberg is connected to the west by a narrow wooded corridor west to 460 m high Homberg as he is surrounded to the north and east of the Wetschaft Valley, which starts the castle forest and thus the West Hessian mountain country. To the southwest flank of his encounters to the Upper Lahn Valley.

In the manual of the biogeographic division of Germany, the mountain was in 1957, as was also a big part of the west subsequent Vorhöhen, the Bergland Glad attributed, but this was corrected in the single sheet of Marburg same institute.

Geologically, the Wollenberg of the north-eastern mountains of Hörre zone, which lies almost completely in Gladenbacher Bergland, however, disappears in the southeast to in the actual Westerwald.