Holzstöcke

Holzstöcke
The Holzstöcke seen from the Iller valley near Kirchberg
Highest point
Elevation700 m (2,300 ft)
Coordinates48°7′51.96″N 10°1′0.48″E / 48.1311000°N 10.0168000°E / 48.1311000; 10.0168000
Dimensions
Area381.9 km2 (147.5 mi2)
Geography
Parent rangeAlpine Foreland

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 700 m above sea level (NN)[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.[2]

Mountains and hills

In the southern part of the Holzstöcke near Aitrach the hills gradually rise from heights of around 500 m above NN 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):[1]

  • The Holzstöcke near Wain in the county of Biberach
  • Panoramic view SW of Dietenheim
  • The Holzstöcke in the valley of the Weihung, north of the hamlet of Grubach
  • The Holzstöcke, south of Kirchberg on the Iller
  • The Weihung is a small river that flows through the Holzstöcke.
  • The Tannschorrenweiher on the Haslach Plateaux between Haslach and Tannheim
  • Tannschorrenweiher

References

  1. ^ a b Kartendienste Archived 2012-12-19 at the Wayback Machine des BfN
  2. ^ a b 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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