Holzstöcke Explained

Area Km2:381.9
Parent:Alpine Foreland
Highest Location:Points on the boundary with the Riß-Aitrach Plateaux
Elevation M:700
Coordinates:48.1311°N 10.0168°W
Map:Baden-Württemberg
Location:Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The Holzstöcke is an elongated, densely forested, mountain range running from north to south in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is up to about [1] and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres.[2] It is a large, terraced landscape that is part of the Iller-Lech Plateau in the Alpine Foreland of south Germany. It lies southwest of the city of Ulm in the counties of Alb-Donau-Kreis and Biberach in Upper Swabia and rises above the valley floors by about 75 metres.

Mountains and hills

In the southern part of the Holzstöcke near Aitrach the hills gradually rise from heights of around in the north near Illerkirchberg up to the 700 metre contour line in the south where there is an area of unnamed mountains and hills.

The following is a list of the named high points in the Holzstöcke – sorted by height in metres (m) above Normalnull (NN):

References

  1. http://www.bfn.de/0503_karten.html Kartendienste
  2. Emil Meynen, Josef Schmithüsen: Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 issues in 8 books, 1:1,000,000 map with major landscape units, 1960).

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