List of mountains and hills of the Rhön
This is a list of mountains and hills of the Rhön, a low mountain range in the Central Uplands of Germany that straddles the three federal states of Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia. This list includes summits within the Rhön Mountains and its foothills, taking in the Rhön Biosphere Reserve and the nature parks of the Bavarian Rhön, Hessian Rhön and, where it belongs to the Rhön, the Hessian Spessart. The table currently shows mountains over 900 metres high. It will be extended over time.
Six columns in the following table, which on start up is arranged by height in metres (m) above sea level (NHN datum unless otherwise stated based on [1]), are sortable by clicking on the symbols by their headings. In the columns "Mountain, hill, subpeak“ alternative names are given in brackets, in smaller font and italics. In these columns, where entries bear the same name they are disambiguated by the name of the municipality to which they belong shown in brackets and small font. Mountains or hills that have a low isolation or prominence and are therefore not considered independent peaks, are marked with the abbreviation "SP" for "subpeak" and their parent peak is named. In the "state" column, where a mountain or hill lies within two or more states, the state in which the actual summit lies is printed in bold.
A key to the abbreviations is at the bottom of the table.
Abbreviations
Key to the abbreviations used in the table:
Counties (using German car registration plate abbreviations):
- FD = Fulda
- HEF = Hersfeld-Rotenburg
- KG = Bad Kissingen
- MKK = Main-Kinzig-Kreis
- NES = Rhön-Grabfeld
- SM = Schmalkalden-Meiningen
- WAK = Wartburgkreis
Biosphere Reserve:
- Rhön BR = Rhön Biosphere Reserve
Nature parks:
- Bavarian Rhön NP = Bavarian Rhön Nature Park
- Hessian Rhön NP = Hessian Rhön Nature Park
- Hessian Spessart NP = Hessian Spessart Nature Park
Points of the compass:
- NW = Northwest
- SE = Southeast
Other:
- AT = Observation tower
- BR = Biosphere reserve
- Ex = former
- DDR = East Germany
- FVV = Fremdenverkehrsverein ("tourist association")
- Gr = Groß, Großer ("Great")
- Hk = Hauptkuppe ("main summit")
- KD = Cultural monument
- Kl = Klein, Kleiner ("Little")
- km² = square kilometre
- ND = Natural monument
- NHN = Normalhöhennull (German elevation datum)
- Nk = Nebenkuppe ("subpeak")
- NP = Nature Park
- NSG = Nature reserve
- Q = Source
- RB = Regierungsbezirk ("province")
- TrÜbPl = Military training area
- v = von, vom
- Whs = Wirtshaus (pub, cafe, restaurant)
References and footnotes
- 1 2 Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
- ↑ Stadt Gersfeld (Rhön), ed. (2002) (in German), Gersfeld: Wandern, Wellness, Wintersport : Freizeitkarte 5526, Maßstab 1:25.000, Fulda,: Fa. Parzeller
- ↑ Berghöhe – diverse Berge laut unbekannte / nicht recherchierte Quelle