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High Taunus, the Glossary

The High Taunus (Hoher Taunus) is the name of a major natural region unit (no. 301) in the Hessian Central Uplands range of the Taunus mountains and forms the area immediately around the main ridge of the Taunus.^[1]

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Geography of Hesse
Mountain ranges of Germany

Altkönig

The Altkönig is the third highest mountain of the Taunus range in Hesse, Germany, reaching a height of.

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Anterior Taunus

The Anterior Taunus (Vordertaunus or Vortaunus) is a natural region within the Hessian Central Upland range of the Taunus (major unit group 30) in Germany that lies south of the High Taunus (301).

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Aulhausen

Aulhausen was first mentioned in 1108 as Aulhausen im Rheingau.

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Bad Nauheim

Bad Nauheim is a town in the Wetteraukreis district of Hesse state of Germany.

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Bingen Forest

The Bingen Forest (Binger Wald) is part of the Hunsrück, a low mountain range in the Central Uplands of Germany.

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Georgenborn

Georgenborn is a village of 2000 inhabitants in the municipality of Schlangenbad, Germany.

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Glashütten (Taunus)

Glashütten is a small municipality in the Hochtaunuskreis.

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Glaskopf

Glaskopf is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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Großer Feldberg

The Großer Feldberg ('Great Field Mountain') is, at a height of 879.5 metres, the highest elevation of the Taunus mountains, and of the entire Rhenish Massif.

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Hallgarter Zange

The Hallgarter Zange is a hill in the Taunus mountains of Hesse, Germany.

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Hesse

Hesse or Hessia (Hessen), officially the State of Hesse (Land Hessen), is a state in Germany.

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Hessian Central Uplands

The Hessian Central Uplands are an area of volcanic highland in Central Hesse in Germany. High Taunus and Hessian Central Uplands are Geography of Hesse.

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Hochtaunuskreis

The Hochtaunuskreis is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Hesse, Germany and is part of the Frankfurt/Rhine-Main Metropolitan Region.

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Hohe Wurzel (Taunus)

Hohe Wurzel, at 618 m, is the highest peak in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis mountain range and the 2nd highest mountain near Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany.

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Kalte Herberge

Kalte Herberge is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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Kellerskopf (Taunus)

Kellerskopf is a hill of Hesse, Germany.

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Kleiner Feldberg

The Kleiner Feldberg is the second-highest mountain in the Taunus mountain range, located in Hesse, Germany.

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Kolbenberg

Kolbenberg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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List of mountains and hills of the Taunus

This list of mountains and hills of the Taunus contains a selection of the highest and most notable mountains and hills in the Taunus and its foothills in the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate.

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Main ridge of the Taunus

The main ridge of the Taunus (Taunushauptkamm) is a 75-kilometre-long ridgeline in the High Taunus mountain in Germany, whose geological core consists of veins of hard Taunus quartzite.

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Metre

The metre (or meter in US spelling; symbol: m) is the base unit of length in the International System of Units (SI).

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Middle Rhine

Middle Rhine (Mittelrhein,; kilometres 529 to 660 of the Rhine) is the section of the Rhine between Bingen and Bonn in Germany.

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Mountain

A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock.

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Niedernhausen

Niedernhausen im Taunus is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany, with almost 15,000 inhabitants.

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Normalhöhennull

Normalhöhennull ("standard elevation zero") or NHN is a vertical datum used in Germany.

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Presberg

Presberg was first mentioned in 1391 as Brensbur and, since 1977, is part of the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein.

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Quartzite

Quartzite is a hard, non-foliated metamorphic rock which was originally pure quartz sandstone.

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Rüdesheim am Rhein

Rüdesheim am Rhein is a German winemaking town in the Rhine Gorge, and part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site in this region.

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Rhine-Taunus Nature Park

The Rhine Taunus Nature Park (Naturpark Rhein-Taunus), located in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis and Wiesbaden district of Hesse, Germany was founded in 1968.

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Ridge

A ridge is a long, narrow, elevated geomorphologic landform, structural feature, or a combination of both separated from the surrounding terrain by steep sides.

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Roßkopf (Taunus)

Roßkopf is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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Saalburg

The Saalburg is a Roman fort located on the main ridge of the Taunus, northwest of Bad Homburg, Hesse, Germany. It is a cohort fort, part of the Limes Germanicus, the Roman linear border fortification of the German provinces. The Saalburg, located just off the main road roughly halfway between Bad Homburg and Wehrheim is the most completely reconstructed Roman fort in Germany.

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Schlangenbad

Schlangenbad is a municipality in the Rheingau-Taunus-Kreis in the Regierungsbezirk of Darmstadt in Hesse, Germany.

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Schläferskopf

The Schläferskopf is a hill in Hesse, Germany, which is 454 metres high.

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Schloßborn

Schloßborn (Schlossborn) is a village in the municipality of Glashütten, Hesse, Germany.

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Taunus

The Taunus is a mountain range in Hesse, Germany, located north west of Frankfurt and north of Wiesbaden. High Taunus and Taunus are mountain ranges of Germany.

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Taunus Nature Park

The Taunus Nature Park (Naturpark Taunus) (until December 2012 called the High Taunus Nature Park or Naturpark Hochtaunus) is a nature park in Central Germany with an area of 134,775 hectares (1347.75 km2) in the Central Upland range of the Taunus.

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Wetterau

The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains. High Taunus and Wetterau are Geography of Hesse.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Taunus

High Taunus, the Glossary

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See also

Geography of Hesse

Mountain ranges of Germany

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