Heuchelberg Explained

Heuchelberg
Map:Germany Baden-Württemberg
State:Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Parent:South German Scarplands
Geology:Keuper, Schilfsandstein
Orogeny:Schichtstufe
Highest:unnamed highest point of the Heuchelberg tip
Length Km:15
Range Coordinates:49.1084°N 9.0085°W

The Heuchelberg is a hill ridge, about 15 kilometres long and up to, a few kilometres southwest of the city of Heilbronn in the eponymous county in the German state of Baden-Württemberg.

Location

The Heuchelberg and the adjacent Stromberg region south of the River Zaber both give their names to the Stromberg-Heuchelberg Nature Park founded in 1980, the third nature park in Baden-Württemberg.

The Heuchelberg runs through the western part of the county of Heilbronn between Leingarten in the northeast and Zaberfeld in the southwest. It lies on the territories of the following towns and villages (clockwise from the northeast): Leingarten, Nordheim, Brackenheim, Güglingen, Pfaffenhofen and Zaberfeld (in the southwest) and Eppingen (only the municipality of Kleingartach), Schwaigern and finally Leingarten again.

Hills

The hills and high points of the Heuchelberg ridge include the following − sorted by height in metres above Normalnull (NN):[1]

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.bfn.de/0503_karten.html Map services