The Rohrhardsberg is a mountain in the Central Black Forest in southern Germany . At 1,152.1 metres (3,780 ft) above sea level, it is the northernmost summit of the elongated, north-south oriented Farnberg Plateau that has several high points over 1,150 metres. The mountain is situated near Elzach in the state of Baden-Württemberg .
18-616: The Farnberg Plateau, which includes the Rohrhardsberg lies in the triangle between the valleys of the Elz , Oberprechtal and Simonswäldertal . Its highest summits are the Griesbacher Eck,( 1,172 m above NHN ) which rises south of the Rohrhardsberg, and, further to the southwest, the Obereck ( 1,177 m above NHN ). The boundary between the counties of Emmendingen , in
36-719: A millstream through Emmendingen, where it drives several hydropower stations and enhances the appearance of the town. Near Riegel on the Kaiserstuhl the Elz merges with the Dreisam from Freiburg im Breisgau and the Old Dreisam . Soon thereafter the Elz forks again: a certain amount of water (up to 8.5 m /s) flows down the Old Elz ( Alte Elz ) through the Europapark Rust to its mouth on
54-579: A deeply incised, wooded and sparsely populated V-shaped valley. In the Oberprechtal valley it bends sharply towards the southwest. This is the start of the middle (actual) Elz valley, which runs in a straight line towards the southwest, separating the High Black Forest (700 to 900 m) to the southeast from the far lower parts of the Central Black Forest . In the now densely populated valley are
72-734: Is a river in Baden-Württemberg , Germany , a right tributary of the Rhine . It rises in the Black Forest , near the source of the Breg . The Elz flows through Elzach , Waldkirch and Emmendingen before reaching the Rhine near Lahr . Its length is approx. 121 km (75 mi). The lower reaches of the Elz are by-passed by the Leopold Canal , a flood relief canal. The Elz rises north of Furtwangen in
90-694: The 1930s described the higher regions of the Northern Black Forest as the Hochschwarzwald in contrast with the sunken blocks on its perimeter along the fault lines and the tectonically less uplifted Central Black Forest. In its 1955 edition, the Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany divides the Black Forest into six major units, the southwesternmost being designated as No. 155 Hochschwarzwald with an area of 1271.2 km². In addition to
108-533: The Brend and the Schwedenschanze would be used for sporting and tourist purposes and large areas would be left largely undisturbed. Several other areas would continue to be extensively grazed, because a purely mechanistic approach of leaving the few remaining rough pastures to grow wild would make no sense either for economic or for ecological reasons. This project is a successful cooperation between conservation agencies,
126-574: The Farnberg ridge between the Rohrhardsberg and Brend is a popular ski area; in summer the many trails managed by the Black Forest Club, such as the Zweitälersteig , enable extensive walking tours through the region. On the domed summit of the Rohrhardsberg is a roughly 30-metre-high transmission tower belonging to Deutsche Telekom and, since 2004, a wind turbine . Elz (Rhine) The Elz
144-406: The Rhine. Other quantities of water, on average about 13.2 m /s, is fed along the Leopold Canal , built by Johann Gottfried Tulla , northwest of Rheinhausen into the Rhine. The Old Elz empties higher up, near Schwanau , into the Rhine. Today it is led down various Old Rhine channels parallel to the Rhine to the southern edge of Kehl , a distance of 121 kilometres from the source; formerly it
162-683: The area of the Brend and the Rohrhardsberg mountains (between the Furtwänglehof and the Kolmenhof) not far from the source of the Breg which is hydrographically the source of the Danube . In its upper reaches the Elz flows in a northerly direction, initially through a high valley with pasture land, bog and ice age glacial landforms. Then after a steep drop at the little Elz Falls , it continues through
180-731: The county of Emmendingen , with the exception of the Ettenbach, which flows through in Ortenaukreis . Commonly found species of fish in the Elz are the: High Black Forest The High Black Forest ( German : Hochschwarzwald ) is a touristic and geographical region in the south-west of the German federal state Baden-Württemberg , primarily in the Southern Black Forest . The term Hochschwarzwald originally became well known thanks to tourism. Winter sports and climatic spa resorts in
198-650: The forestry commission, municipalities and various user groups. In 2007, in the Rohrhardsberg area one of the first Natura 2000 management plans by the Regierungspräsidium Freiburg was completed. Further funding from Natura 2000 has been spent in the area since 2006 from the EU LIFE programme to ensure the Natura 2000 network. In cooperation with local farmers, inter alia, a further opportunity for naturalising or reforesting grazing land has been carried out. In winter
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#1732875633914216-691: The highest part of the Central Black Forest southeast of the Elz valley (regions around the Kandel and the highlands of St. Peter and St. Märgen ), sometimes as far as the Hünersedel north of the Elz. Even the highland areas of the Northern Black Forest around the Hornisgrinde and the Kniebis have used the term in tourist advertising. In addition, official Baden and Württemberg geology publications of
234-526: The highlands of the Black Forest used it in advertising even before the First World War . Since the 1920s the term also found its way into literature about the region, albeit with variations in terms of its actual boundaries. Whilst some authors used the term just to describe the area around the Feldberg massif , others equated it to the whole of the Southern Black Forest and still others used it to refer to
252-550: The southern centre of uplifted terrain of the Black Forest that peaks in the Feldberg it also includes the deeply incised valleys that radiate away to the south and west as well as the Weitenau Foothills ( Weitenauer Vorberge ). On the renaming of the old county of Neustadt/Schwarzwald to Hochschwarzwald (1956–1973) and the present county of Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald the term was also adopted by administrative units. One of
270-571: The town of Elzach , the villages of Winden and Gutach im Breisgau , where the Elz receives the waters of the Wild Gutach , which is just under half its size. Below the town of Waldkirch the Elz enters the Upper Rhine Plain near Denzlingen in the Freiburg Bay . From now on it flows in a northwesterly direction, past Emmendingen and Teningen . Some of the water of the Elz is diverted into
288-467: The west, Yacher Zinken and Kostgefäll . The entire region is designated as a Natura 2000 area. On the ridge of the plateau between the Schwedenschanze on the Rohrhardsberg and the Brend are habitats for the capercaillie and hazel grouse and other, in some cases very rare, animal and plant species. For this reason it was agreed that in the Rohrhardsberg model project, only a narrow axis between
306-465: The west, and Schwarzwald-Baar-Kreis , in the east, runs over the summit crest. Its highest point is the east top of theGriesbacher Eck at ( 1,164 m above NHN ). In the comparatively less incised region to the west which is characterised by large differences in height there are several nature reserves : the Rohrhardsberg-Upper Elz reserves and the two neighbouring reserves to
324-509: Was over 90 kilometres long. The table shows all tributaries that are longer than 5 kilometres, with the exception of millstreams alongside rivers. Based on the waterbody number ( Fließgewässerkennziffer ), the Frischnaubach is the highest tributary - it discharges into the Elz in the parish of Prechtal . The Ettenbach is the lowest tributary and empties into the Elz just before Grafenhausen . All tributaries have their catchment areas in
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