Dammersfeld Ridge

The Dammersfeld Ridge () 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:

• (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 (; northwest of Wildflecken, in the southwest of the area)
• Dreifeldskuppe (, west-northwest summit)
• (, northern summit)
• Bremerkopf
• (, north-northwestern summit)
• Eierhauckberg ()
• Beilstein (; west-southwestern summit)
• Hohe Hölle ()
• Himmeldunkberg (, southern summit)
• (, southwestern summit)
• Mittelberg (; almost a northeastern spur of the Eierhauckberg)
• Schachen (; eastern summit)
• Rommerser Berg (; northern summit)
• Zornberg (, southern summit)
• Rückberg (, almost a southern spur of the Dammersfeldkuppe)
• ()
• (, with the )
• Großer Auersberg ()
• Kleiner Auersberg ()
• Ehrenberg

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