Dammersfeld Ridge

StateCounties of Bad Kissingen and Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria, and county of Fulda, Hesse,  GermanyRange coordinates50°23′49″N 9°51′44″E / 50.3969°N 9.8621°E / 50.3969; 9.8621Parent rangeSouthern High Rhön, High Rhön, Rhön

The Dammersfeld Ridge (German: Dammersfeldrücken) is a low mountain chain in the High Rhön in Germany, which begins on a line from Bischofsheim to Gersfeld and runs in a southwesterly direction to Riedenberg – Werberg – Maria Ehrenberg. The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the Wildflecken Training Area. Its highest point is the Dammersfeldkuppe, the second-highest mountain in the Rhön. The Bavarian-Hessian state border runs along the crest of the mountain chain.

Natural regions

The Dammersfeld Ridge was first defined in 1968 as a natural region as part of the natural regional classification of Germany at a map scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows:^[1]

• (part of no. 35 East Hesse Highlands)
  • (part of no. 354 High Rhön)
    • (part of no. 354.0 Southern High Rhön)
      • 354.00 Dammersfeld Ridge

Mountains

• Dammersfeldkuppe (927.9 m (3,044 ft); northwest of Wildflecken, in the southwest of the area)
  • Dreifeldskuppe (832 m (2,730 ft), west-northwest summit)
  • Ottersteine [de] (821 m (2,694 ft), northern summit)
    • Bremerkopf 797 m (2,615 ft)
  • Dalherdakuppe [de] (801 m (2,628 ft), north-northwestern summit)
• Eierhauckberg (910 m (2,990 ft))
  • Beilstein (865 m (2,838 ft); west-southwestern summit)
• Hohe Hölle (894 m (2,933 ft))
  • Himmeldunkberg (888 m (2,913 ft), southern summit)
  • Teufelsberg [de] (844 m (2,769 ft), southwestern summit)
• Mittelberg (880 m (2,890 ft); almost a northeastern spur of the Eierhauckberg)
  • Schachen (857 m (2,812 ft); eastern summit)
  • Rommerser Berg (850 m (2,790 ft); northern summit)
  • Zornberg (838 m (2,749 ft), southern summit)
• Rückberg (870 m (2,850 ft), almost a southern spur of the Dammersfeldkuppe)
• Reesberg [de] (851 m (2,792 ft))
• Simmelsberg [de] (843 m (2,766 ft), with the Simmelsberg winter sports area [de])
• Großer Auersberg (809 m (2,654 ft))
• Kleiner Auersberg (808 m (2,651 ft))
• Ehrenberg 674 m (2,211 ft)

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  View from the Kreuzberg northward to the Dammersfeld Ridge with Kleiner- and Großer Auersberg, Dammersfeldkuppe, Eierhauckberg and Himmeldunkberg.

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