The Upper Hessian Ridge or Upper Hesse Ridge is a hill chain in the West Hesse Highlands in North and Middle Hesse, which lies on the Rhine-Weser watershed and links the montane Central Upland ranges
View from the Amöneburg of the Gilserberg Heights with the Burgholz (379.1 m, left) and, on the Kellerwald behind, the Hohes Lohr (656.7 m, left, TV tower), Jeust (ca. 585 m, centre) and Wüstegarten (675.3 m, right). Front left :the town of Kirchhain.
View from the Wolfskaute near Rauschenberg of the Gilserberg Heights, part of the Upper Hessian Ridge, which links the Vogelsberg (773.0 m, rear; far right) with the Kellerwald (up to 675.3 m, far left). Right: the Burgholz (379.1 m); centre right in the far distance is the Kirschenwald (up to 532.8 m) in the Knüll (up to 635.5 m); centre left is the Ernsthausen wind farm; far left and optically merged into one another are the Jeust (ca. 585 m) and the
View from the Amöneburg of the Neustadt Saddle and Knüll (635.5 m). Immediately left of the saddle of the largely cleared Krückeberg (345.4 m), which from a natural regional perspective counts as part of the saddle; right of the saddle is the plateau of the Northern Vogelsberg Foreland (388 m)
Burgholz is a hill in the Gilserberg Heights near the town of Kirchhain in Marburg-Biedenkopf, which is 379 metres high. On the summit and the north-east slope is the district of Burgholz, which is pa
Upper Hessian Ridge
…199.16 km²) The Gilserberg Heights are mostly forested; large parts of the northern area belong to the Treysa State Forest, its southwestern spur near Burgholz to the Rauschenberg State Forest and the Kirchhain Municipal Forest. Whilst in the north, in the immediate neighbourhood zum noch gut 200 m höheren…
The Hunburgterm tower at the peak of Burgholz.