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Rhön Mountains, the Glossary

The Rhön Mountains are a group of low mountains (or Mittelgebirge) in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together.^[1]

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Aconitum

Aconitum, also known as aconite, monkshood, wolfsbane, leopard's bane, devil's helmet, or blue rocket, is a genus of over 250 species of flowering plants belonging to the family Ranunculaceae.

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Aconitum lycoctonum

Aconitum lycoctonum (wolf's-bane or northern wolf's-bane) is a species of flowering plant in the genus Aconitum, of the family Ranunculaceae, native to much of Europe and northern Asia.

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Allium ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood garlic, bear leek, Eurasian wild garlic or bear's garlic, is a bulbous perennial flowering plant in the amaryllis family Amaryllidaceae.

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Alpine shrew

The alpine shrew (Sorex alpinus) is a species of mammal in the family Soricidae.

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Anacamptis morio

Anacamptis morio, the green-winged orchid or green-veined orchid (synonym Orchis morio), is a flowering plant of the orchid family, Orchidaceae.

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Anacamptis pyramidalis

Anacamptis pyramidalis, the pyramidal orchid, is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Anacamptis of the family Orchidaceae.

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Anemonoides nemorosa

Anemonoides nemorosa (syn. Anemone nemorosa), the wood anemone, is an early-spring flowering plant in the buttercup family Ranunculaceae, native to Europe.

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Anthriscus sylvestris

Anthriscus sylvestris, known as cow parsley, wild chervil, wild beaked parsley, Queen Anne's lace or keck, is a herbaceous biennial or short-lived perennial plant in the family Apiaceae (Umbelliferae),.

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Atocion armeria

Atocion armeria, commonly known as Sweet William catchfly, is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.

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Auersberg (Hilders)

The Auersberg is a mountain,, in the Rhön, that rises immediately north of Hilders.

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Bad Bocklet

Bad Bocklet is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany.

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Bad Brückenau

Bad Brückenau is a spa town in Bad Kissingen district in northwestern Bavaria in the Rhön Mountains.

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Bad Hersfeld

The festival and spa town of Bad Hersfeld (Bad is "spa" in German; the Old High German name of the city was Herolfisfeld) is the district seat of the Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in northeastern Hesse, Germany, roughly 50 km southeast of Kassel.

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Bad Königshofen

Bad Königshofen im Grabfeld is a small spa town in the German state of Bavaria, located in the Rhön-Grabfeld district in northeast Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.

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Bad Kissingen

Bad Kissingen is a German spa town in the Bavarian region of Lower Franconia and seat of the district Bad Kissingen.

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Bad Neustadt an der Saale

Bad Neustadt an der Saale, officially Bad Neustadt a. d. Saale and often simply called Bad Neustadt, is a town in northern Bavaria, Germany.

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Bad Salzungen

Bad Salzungen is a town in Thuringia, Germany.

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Basalt

Basalt is an aphanitic (fine-grained) extrusive igneous rock formed from the rapid cooling of low-viscosity lava rich in magnesium and iron (mafic lava) exposed at or very near the surface of a rocky planet or moon.

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Bavaria

Bavaria, officially the Free State of Bavaria, is a state in the southeast of Germany.

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Bavarian Rhön Nature Park

The Bavarian Rhön Nature Park (Naturpark Bayerische Rhön) straddles the junction of the German states of Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia.

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Beech

Beech (Fagus) is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Eurasia and North America.

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Bischofsheim in der Rhön

Bischofsheim in der Rhön (before January 2020: Bischofsheim an der Rhön) is a town in the district Rhön-Grabfeld, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Black grouse

The black grouse (Lyrurus tetrix), also known as northern black grouse, Eurasian black grouse, blackgame or blackcock, is a large game bird in the grouse family.

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Black Moor (Rhön)

The Black Moor (Schwarzes Moor) is an important internationally recognised wetland located in the Bavarian Rhön Mountains at the tripoint of the German states of Hesse, Thuringia and Bavaria.

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Black Mountains (Rhön)

The Black Mountains (Schwarze Berge) are part of the High Rhön in Germany, in particular of the Southern High Rhön, which lies south of the Kreuzberg Group and is thus the southernmost part of the High Rhön. Rhön Mountains and Black Mountains (Rhön) are mountain ranges of Bavaria and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Black stork

The black stork (Ciconia nigra) is a large bird in the stork family Ciconiidae.

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Botenlauben Castle

Botenlauben Castle is a ruined castle in Reiterswiesen, a district of the Bavarian spa town of Bad Kissingen.

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Botrychium lunaria

Botrychium lunaria is a species of fern in the family Ophioglossaceae known by the common name moonwort or common moonwort.

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Brend

The river Brend is a right-bank tributary of the Fränkische Saale (Franconian Saale), in Lower Franconia, Bavaria, Germany.

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Buchonia

Buchonia is a region in Hesse, a state of Germany, where one of the first forestry planning systems was developed by Georg Ludwig Hartig (1764–1837).

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Buntsandstein

The Buntsandstein (German for coloured or colourful sandstone) or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe.

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Burgsinn

Burgsinn is a market community in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and the seat of the Verwaltungsgemeinschaft (municipal association) of Burgsinn.

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Burkardroth

Burkardroth is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany.

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Buttlar

Buttlar is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany.

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Bythinella reyniesii

Bythinella reyniesii is a species of very small freshwater snail, an aquatic gastropod mollusk in the family Amnicolidae.

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Camino de Santiago

The Camino de Santiago (Peregrinatio Compostellana,; O Camiño de Santiago), or in English the Way of St.

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Campanula latifolia

Campanula latifolia, the giant bellflower, is a species of bellflower in the family Campanulaceae.

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Carlina acaulis

Carlina acaulis, the stemless carline thistle, dwarf carline thistle, or silver thistle, is a perennial dicotyledonous flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to alpine regions of central and southern Europe.

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Centaurea montana

Centaurea montana, the perennial cornflower, mountain cornflower, bachelor's button, montane knapweed or mountain bluet, is a species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, endemic to Europe.

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Centaurea phrygia

Centaurea phrygia, commonly called wig knapweed, is a species of Centaurea.

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Central Rhön

The Central Rhön (Zentrale Rhön) is a 5th level natural region which, together with the Southern High Rhön, forms the High Rhön. Rhön Mountains and Central Rhön are natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Cephalanthera

Cephalanthera, abbreviated Ceph in horticultural trade, is a genus of mostly terrestrial orchids.

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Cicerbita alpina

Cicerbita alpina, commonly known as the alpine sow-thistle or alpine blue-sow-thistle is a perennial herbaceous species of plant sometimes placed in the genus Cicerbita of the family Asteraceae, and sometimes placed in the genus Lactuca as Lactuca alpina.

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Clematis recta

Clematis recta, the erect clematis or ground virginsbower, is a species of Clematis unusual in that it is a free-standing shrub rather than a climbing plant.

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Cochlearia

Cochlearia (scurvy-grass or spoonwort) is a genus of about 30 species of annual and perennial herbs in the family Brassicaceae.

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Conifer

Conifers are a group of cone-bearing seed plants, a subset of gymnosperms.

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Corallorhiza trifida

Corallorhiza trifida, commonly known as early coralroot, northern coralroot, or yellow coralroot, is a coralroot orchid native to North America and Eurasia, with a circumboreal distribution.

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Corn crake

The corn crake, corncrake or landrail (Crex crex) is a bird in the rail family.

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Cypripedioideae

Cypripedioideae is a subfamily of orchids commonly known as lady's slipper orchids, lady slipper orchids or slipper orchids.

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Cypripedium calceolus

Cypripedium calceolus is a lady's-slipper orchid, and the type species of the genus Cypripedium.

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Dactylorhiza majalis

Dactylorhiza majalis, or the broad-leaved marsh orchid, is a terrestrial Eurasian orchid.

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Dactylorhiza viridis

Dactylorhiza viridis, the frog orchid, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family Orchidaceae.

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Dammersfeld Ridge

The Dammersfeld Ridge (Dammersfeldrücken) 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. Rhön Mountains and Dammersfeld Ridge are mountain ranges of Bavaria, mountain ranges of Hesse and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Dammersfeldkuppe

At the Dammersfeldkuppe in Bavaria is the second highest mountain after the Wasserkuppe (Hessen) in the Rhön, a low mountain range straddling the states of Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia in Germany.

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Döllbach

Döllbach (in its upper course: Döllau) is a river of Bavaria and Hesse, Germany.

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Dermbach

Dermbach is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany.

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Diabase

Diabase, also called dolerite or microgabbro, is a mafic, holocrystalline, subvolcanic rock equivalent to volcanic basalt or plutonic gabbro.

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Dianthus gratianopolitanus

Dianthus gratianopolitanus, commonly known as the Cheddar pink or clove pink, is a species of plant in the family Caryophyllaceae.

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Dictamnus

Dictamnus is a genus of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, native to temperate Eurasia from Spain to China.

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Dipperz

Dipperz is a municipality in the district of Fulda in Hesse in Germany.

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Dreistelzberg

The Dreistelzberg, also called the Dreistelzkopf and frequently shortened to Dreistelz, is a mountain,, in the Bavarian part of the Rhön Mountains.

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Drosera

Drosera, which is commonly known as the sundews, is one of the largest genera of carnivorous plants, with at least 194 species.

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East Hesse Highlands

The East Hesse Highlands (Osthessisches Bergland) describes a heavily wooded range of hills lying mainly in the German state of Hesse, but also extending a little way into Lower Saxony to the north, Thuringia to the east and Bavaria to the southeast.

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Ebersburg

Ebersburg is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Ehrenberg, Hesse

Ehrenberg is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Eichenzell

Eichenzell is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Eierhauckberg

Eierhauckberg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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Eiterfeld

Eiterfeld is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Ellenbogen (Rhön)

The Ellenbogen is an 814-metre high extinct volcano in the Thuringian Rhön in the district of Landkreis Schmalkalden-Meiningen, Thuringia, Germany. Rhön Mountains and Ellenbogen (Rhön) are extinct volcanoes of Europe and volcanoes of Germany.

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Empetrum nigrum

Empetrum nigrum, crowberry, black crowberry, or, in western Alaska, blackberry, is a flowering plant species in the heather family Ericaceae with a near circumboreal distribution in the Northern Hemisphere.

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Endemism

Endemism is the state of a species only being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.

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Eriophorum

Eriophorum (cottongrass, cotton-grass or cottonsedge) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Cyperaceae, the sedge family.

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Eurasian water shrew

The Eurasian water shrew (Neomys fodiens), known in the United Kingdom as the water shrew, is a relatively large shrew, up to long, with a tail up to three-quarters as long again.

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European badger

The European badger (Meles meles), also known as the Eurasian badger, is a badger species in the family Mustelidae native to Europe and West Asia and parts of Central Asia.

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European hare

The European hare (Lepus europaeus), also known as the brown hare, is a species of hare native to Europe and parts of Asia.

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Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

The German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation (Bundesamt für Naturschutz, BfN) is the German government's scientific authority with responsibility for national and international nature conservation.

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Felda (Werra)

Felda is a river of Thuringia, Germany.

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Fladungen

Fladungen is a town in the Rhön-Grabfeld district, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Fliede

Fliede (in its upper course: Hermannswasser) is a river of Hesse, Germany.

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Fox

Foxes are small-to-medium-sized omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae.

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Franconian Saale

The Franconian Saale (Fränkische Saale) is a 140 km long river in Bavaria, Germany.

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Friedewald, Hesse

Friedewald is a municipality in Hersfeld-Rotenburg district in eastern Hesse, Germany, directly east of Bad Hersfeld.

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Fulda

Fulda (historically in English called Fuld) is a city in Hesse, Germany; it is located on the river Fulda and is the administrative seat of the Fulda district (Kreis).

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Fulda (river)

The Fulda is a river of Hesse and Lower Saxony, Germany.

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Fulda-Werra Uplands

The Fulda-Werra Uplands (Fulda-Werra-Bergland) are a major natural regional unit (no. 357) in the East Hesse Highlands (major unit group 35) in East and North Hesse and, with small elements in the southeast, in the German state of Thuringia. Rhön Mountains and Fulda-Werra Uplands are natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Gangolfsberg

Gangolfsberg is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany.

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Gebaberg

The Gebaberg, also called the Hohe Geba or Die Geba, near Geba in the county of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in southern Thuringia, Germany, is, and thus the highest point of the Anterior Rhön (Vorderer Rhön).

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Geisa

Geisa is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Gemünden am Main

Gemünden am Main (officially Gemünden a.Main) is a town in the Main-Spessart district in the Regierungsbezirk of Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) in Bavaria, Germany and lies roughly 40 km down the Main from Würzburg.

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Gentiana

Gentiana is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the gentian family (Gentianaceae), the tribe Gentianeae, and the monophyletic subtribe Gentianinae.

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Germany

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

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Gersfeld

Gersfeld is a town in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Gliding

Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne.

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Goodyera repens

Goodyera repens, an orchid in the genus Goodyera, is called by the common name creeping lady's-tresses in Anglophone Europe and dwarf rattlesnake plantain or lesser rattlesnake plantain in North America.

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Grabfeld

The Grabfeld is a region in Germany, on the border between Bavaria and Thuringia.

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Grassland

A grassland is an area where the vegetation is dominated by grasses (Poaceae).

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Große Haube

Große Haube is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany.

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Großer Auersberg

The Großer Auersberg is a mountain,, in the Bavarian part of the Rhön mountains.

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Gymnadenia conopsea

Gymnadenia conopsea, commonly known as the fragrant orchid or chalk fragrant orchid, is a herbaceous plant of the family Orchidaceae native to northern Europe.

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Habitat

In ecology, habitat refers to the array of resources, physical and biotic factors that are present in an area, such as to support the survival and reproduction of a particular species.

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Hammelburg

Hammelburg is a town in Bavaria, Germany.

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Handbook of the Natural Region Divisions of Germany

The Handbook of Natural Region Divisions of Germany (Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands) was a book series resulting from a project by the former German Federal Institute for Regional Studies (Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde) to determine the division of Germany into natural regions.

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Haune

The Haune is a 67 km long river in Hesse, Germany, right tributary of the Fulda.

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Hausen, Rhön-Grabfeld

Hausen is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany.

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Hazel dormouse

The hazel dormouse or common dormouse (Muscardinus avellanarius) is a small dormouse species native to Europe and the only living species in the genus Muscardinus.

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Hünfeld

Hünfeld is a town in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Head of the valley

The head of the valley or, less commonly, the valley head, refers to the uppermost part of a valley.

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Heidelstein

The Heidelstein, between Bischofsheim an der Rhön in the Bavarian county of Rhön-Grabfeld and Wüstensachsen in the Hessian county of Fulda, is a mountain, high, on the state border in the mountains of the High Rhön, part of the German Central Upland range of Rhön.

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Helianthemum apenninum

Helianthemum apenninum, the white rock-rose, is a white-flowering rock rose of the family Cistaceae found in the North Atlantic region, mainly in dry grassy and rocky places across large parts of Europe.

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Herbstein

Herbstein is a small town in the Vogelsbergkreis in Hesse, Germany.

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Herpf (Werra)

Herpf is a river of Thuringia, 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 Skittles

The Hessian Skittles (Hessisches Kegelspiel) are a group of nine extinct volcanoes in the northwestern and lowest part of the Rhön Mountains in East Hesse, Germany. Rhön Mountains and Hessian Skittles are extinct volcanoes of Europe.

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Hiking

Hiking is a long, vigorous walk, usually on trails or footpaths in the countryside.

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Hilders

Hilders is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Himantoglossum hircinum

Himantoglossum hircinum, the lizard orchid, is a species of orchid in the genus Himantoglossum found in Europe and North Africa.

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Himmeldunkberg

The Himmeldunkberg or Himmeldunk is an extinct volcano, m high, in the High Rhön (Hohe Rhön) in Germany. Rhön Mountains and Himmeldunkberg are extinct volcanoes of Europe.

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Hofbieber

Hofbieber is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Hohe Hölle

Hohe Hölle is a 893.8 m (2,932 ft) mountain of Bavaria, Germany.

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Horned owl

The American (North and South America) horned owls and the Old World eagle-owls make up the genus Bubo, at least as traditionally described.

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Huperzia selago

Huperzia selago, the northern firmoss or fir clubmoss, is a vascular plant in the family Lycopodiaceae.

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Interfluve

An interfluve is a narrow, elongated and plateau-like or ridge-like landform between two valleys.

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Juniper

Junipers are coniferous trees and shrubs in the genus Juniperus of the cypress family Cupressaceae.

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Kaltennordheim

Kaltennordheim is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Kaltensundheim

Kaltensundheim is a village and a former municipality in the district Schmalkalden-Meiningen, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Künzell

Künzell is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Keuper

The Keuper is a lithostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe.

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Kleiner Auersberg

The Kleiner Auersberg is a mountain,, in the Bavarian part of the Rhön mountains.

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Knüll

The Knüllgebirge or simply Knüll is a small mountain range in the northern part of Hesse, Germany, approximately south of Kassel. Rhön Mountains and Knüll are natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Kreuzberg (Rhön)

The Kreuzberg is one of the Rhön Mountains in southern Germany.

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Kreuzberg Group

The Kreuzberg Group is a small range of low mountains in northern Bavaria, Germany, which is named after its highest peak, the Kreuzberg (928 m). Rhön Mountains and Kreuzberg Group are mountain ranges of Bavaria and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Kreuzberg ski area

The Kreuzberg Ski Area is located on the northern side of the Kreuzberg mountain (928 m) in the Bavarian part of the Rhön region, near Bischofsheim.

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Kuppe

A Kuppe is the term used in German-speaking central Europe for a mountain or hill with a rounded summit that has no rock formation, such as a tor, on it.

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Landwehr (border)

The terms landwehr ("land defence"), landgraben ("land ditch") and landhege ("land enclosure") refer to border demarcations or border defences and enclosures in Central Europe that were either built by settlements with the right of enclosure or to mark and defend entire territories.

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Late antiquity

Late antiquity is sometimes defined as spanning from the end of classical antiquity to the local start of the Middle Ages, from around the late 3rd century up to the 7th or 8th century in Europe and adjacent areas bordering the Mediterranean Basin depending on location.

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Lütter

Lütter is a river of Hesse, Germany.

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Lilium martagon

Lilium martagon, the martagon lily or Turk's cap lily, is a Eurasian species of lily.

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Lily of the valley

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring.

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Long Rhön

The Long Rhön (Lange Rhön) is a ridge in the Central Rhön which forms part of the High Rhön within the Rhön Mountains. Rhön Mountains and Long Rhön are mountain ranges of Bavaria and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Lower Franconia

Lower Franconia (Unterfranken) is one of seven districts of Bavaria, Germany.

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Lunaria annua

Lunaria annua, commonly called honesty or annual honesty, is a species of flowering plant in the cabbage and mustard family Brassicaceae.

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Main (river)

The Main is the longest tributary of the Rhine.

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Main-Spessart

Main-Spessart is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in the northwest of Bavaria, Germany.

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Man and the Biosphere Programme

Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) is an intergovernmental scientific program, launched in 1971 by UNESCO, that aims to establish a scientific basis for the 'improvement of relationships' between people and their environments.

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Mediterranean water shrew

The Mediterranean, Southern or Miller's water shrew (Neomys milleri) is a species of insectivoran mammal in the family Soricidae.

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Meiningen

Meiningen is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany.

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Mellrichstadt

Mellrichstadt is a town in the district Rhön-Grabfeld, in Bavaria, Germany.

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Menyanthes

Menyanthes is a monotypic genus of flowering plants in the family Menyanthaceae containing the single species Menyanthes trifoliata.

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Middle Ages

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.

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Million years ago

Million years ago, abbreviated as Mya, Myr (megayear) or Ma (megaannum), is a unit of time equal to (i.e. years), or approximately 31.6 teraseconds.

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Milseburg

The Milseburg is an extinct volcano and at above sea level the second highest elevation in the Hessian part of the Rhön Mountains, Germany.

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Mittelgebirge

A Mittelgebirge (German: Mittel, "middle or mid"; Gebirge, "mountains or mountainous area") is a type of relatively low mountain range or highland area typical of the geography of central Europe, especially central and southern Germany; it refers to something between rolling low hill country or Hügelland and a proper mountain range (Gebirge or Hochgebirge) like the High Alps.

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Monastery

A monastery is a building or complex of buildings comprising the domestic quarters and workplaces of monastics, monks or nuns, whether living in communities or alone (hermits).

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Muschelkalk

The Muschelkalk (German for "shell-bearing limestone"; calcaire coquillier) is a sequence of sedimentary rock strata (a lithostratigraphic unit) in the geology of central and western Europe.

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Natural region

A natural region (landscape unit) is a basic geographic unit.

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Nazi dissolution of the Bruderhof

The Rhön Bruderhof was the second of the Bruderhof Communities, with around a hundred people, situated in the Rhön mountains in Germany, not far from Fulda.

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Nüst

Nüst is a river of Hesse, Germany.

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Neotinea ustulata

Neotinea ustulata (syn. Orchis ustulata), the burnt orchid or burnt-tip orchid, is a European terrestrial orchid native to mountains in central and southern Europe, growing at up to elevation.

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Neottia nidus-avis

Neottia nidus-avis, the bird's-nest orchid, is a non-photosynthetic orchid, native to Europe, Russia, with sporadic presence in North-Africa, and some parts of the Middle East.

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Neuhof, Hesse

Neuhof is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Nordheim vor der Rhön

Nordheim vor der Rhön is a municipality in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Bavaria in Germany.

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Oberhof, Germany

Oberhof is a town in the Schmalkalden-Meiningen district of Thuringia, Germany.

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Oberleichtersbach

Oberleichtersbach is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany.

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Observation Post Alpha

Observation Post Alpha, OP Alpha, or Point Alpha was a Cold War observation post between Rasdorf, Hesse, West Germany and Geisa, Thuringia, East Germany.

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Oechsen

Oechsen is a municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany.

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Ophrys

The genus Ophrys is a large group of orchids from the alliance Orchis in the subtribe Orchidinae.

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Ophrys insectifera

Ophrys insectifera, the fly orchid, is a species of orchid and the type species of the genus Ophrys.

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Orchid

Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae, a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant.

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Orchis anthropophora

Orchis anthropophora (formerly Aceras anthropophorum), the man orchid, is a European species of orchid whose flowers resemble a human figure.

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Orchis mascula

Orchis mascula, the early-purple orchid, early spring orchis, is a species of flowering plant in the orchid family, Orchidaceae.

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Orchis militaris

Orchis militaris, the military orchid, is a species of orchid native to Europe.

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Orchis purpurea

Orchis purpurea, the lady orchid, is a herbaceous plant belonging to the genus Orchis of the family Orchidaceae.

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Ostheim

Ostheim vor der Rhön is a town in Northern Bavaria in the district of Rhön-Grabfeld in Franconia.

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Parnassia

The genus Parnassia, also known as grass of Parnassus or bog-stars, are plants now placed in the family Celastraceae, formerly classified in Parnassiaceae or Saxifragaceae.

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Pedicularis

Pedicularis is a genus of perennial green root parasite plants currently placed in the family Orobanchaceae (the genus previously having been placed in Scrophulariaceae sensu lato).

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Phonolite

Phonolite is an uncommon shallow intrusive or extrusive rock, of intermediate chemical composition between felsic and mafic, with texture ranging from aphanitic (fine-grained) to porphyritic (mixed fine- and coarse-grained).

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Platanthera chlorantha

Platanthera chlorantha, commonly known as greater butterfly-orchid, is a species of orchid in the genus Platanthera.

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Plateau

In geology and physical geography, a plateau (plateaus or plateaux), also called a high plain or a tableland, is an area of a highland consisting of flat terrain that is raised sharply above the surrounding area on at least one side.

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Pleß (mountain)

The Pleß is a mountain,, in the county of Schmalkalden-Meiningen in the Salzungen Werra Highland in the German state of Thuringia. Rhön Mountains and Pleß (mountain) are volcanoes of Germany.

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Poppenhausen, Hesse

Poppenhausen is a municipality in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Premich

Premich is a river of Bavaria, Germany.

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Princely Abbey of Fulda

The Abbey of Fulda, from 1221 the Princely Abbey of Fulda and from 1752 the Prince-Bishopric of Fulda, was a Benedictine abbey and ecclesiastical principality centered on Fulda, in the present-day German state of Hesse.

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Pulsatilla

The genus Pulsatilla contains about 40 species of herbaceous perennial plants native to meadows and prairies of North America, Europe, and Asia.

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Raised bog

Raised bogs, also called ombrotrophic bogs, are acidic, wet habitats that are poor in mineral salts and are home to flora and fauna that can cope with such extreme conditions.

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Red Moor (Rhön)

The Red Moor (Rotes Moor) is a raised bog in the Hessian part of the Rhön Mountains in Germany.

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Red-backed shrike

The red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) is a carnivorous passerine bird and member of the shrike family, Laniidae.

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Rhön Biosphere Reserve

The Rhön Biosphere Reserve includes the entire central area of the Rhön Mountains, a low mountain range in the German states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia. Rhön Mountains and Rhön Biosphere Reserve are Biosphere reserves of Germany.

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Rhön Club

The Rhön Club (Rhönklub) is an inter-state local history and rambling club in Bavaria, Hesse and Thuringia, with around 25,000 members in 88 branches and is one of the larger German rambling clubs in the Association of German Alpine and Rambling Clubs (Verband Deutscher Gebirgs- und Wandervereine).

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Rhön Mountains

The Rhön Mountains are a group of low mountains (or Mittelgebirge) in central Germany, located around the border area where the states of Hesse, Bavaria and Thuringia come together. Rhön Mountains and Rhön Mountains are Biosphere reserves of Germany, extinct volcanoes of Europe, mountain ranges of Bavaria, mountain ranges of Hesse, mountain ranges of Thuringia, natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands and volcanoes of Germany.

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Riedenberg

Riedenberg is a municipality in the district of Bad Kissingen in Bavaria in Germany.

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Roe deer

The roe deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the roe, western roe deer, or European roe, is a species of deer.

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Rother Kuppe

Rother Kuppe is a mountain in Bavaria, Germany.

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Rove beetle

The rove beetles are a family (Staphylinidae) of beetles, primarily distinguished by their short elytra (wing covers) that typically leave more than half of their abdominal segments exposed.

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Salzungen Werra Upland

The Salzungen Werra Upland (Salzunger Werrabergland) is a natural region in Germany that forms part of the East Hesse Highlands in the German states of Hesse and Thuringia. Rhön Mountains and Salzungen Werra Upland are mountain ranges of Thuringia and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Schlüchtern

Schlüchtern is a town in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hessen, Germany.

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Schlitz, Hesse

Schlitz is a small town in the Vogelsbergkreis in eastern Hesse, Germany.

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Schmale Sinn

Schmale Sinn (in its upper course in Bavaria: Kleine Sinn) is a river of Bavaria and Hesse, Germany.

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Schondra (river)

Schondra is a river of Bavaria, Germany.

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Schwarzenfels

Schwarzenfels is a village in the German municipality of Sinntal in Main-Kinzig-Kreis in the state of Hesse.

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Schweinfurt

Schweinfurt is a city in the district of Lower Franconia in Bavaria, Germany.

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Sedum villosum

Sedum villosum, known as the hairy stonecrop or purple stonecrop, is a biennial to perennial flowering plant.

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Seulingswald

The Seulingswald (also called the Sillingswald) is a hill range in the German Central Uplands which reaches heights of up to. Rhön Mountains and Seulingswald are mountain ranges of Thuringia and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Sinn (river)

The Sinn is a river that flows through the state of Hesse and the Bavarian province of Lower Franconia in southern Germany.

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Soisberg

Soisberg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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Southern High Rhön

The Southern High Rhön (Südliche Hochrhön, also Südliche Hohe Rhön) is a natural region of the 5th level which, together with the Central Rhön, forms the region called the High Rhön. Rhön Mountains and Southern High Rhön are mountain ranges of Bavaria, mountain ranges of Hesse and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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Species

A species (species) is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction.

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Spessart

Spessart is a Mittelgebirge, a range of low wooded mountains, in the States of Bavaria and Hesse in Germany.

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Stadtlengsfeld

Stadtlengsfeld is a town and a former municipality in the Wartburgkreis district of Thuringia, Germany.

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Stirnberg

Stirnberg is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany.

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Stone run

A stone run (called also stone river, stone stream or stone sea Vitosha Nature Park website.) is a rock landform resulting from the erosion of particular rock varieties caused by freezing-thawing cycles in periglacial conditions during the last Ice Age.

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Stoppelsberg

Stoppelsberg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.

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Streu (Franconian Saale)

The Streu is a river of Thuringia and Bavaria, Germany.

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Tann, Hesse

Tann is a town in the district of Fulda, in Hesse, Germany.

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Tetrao

Tetrao is a genus of birds in the grouse subfamily known as capercaillies.

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Thulba

Thulba is a river of Bavaria, Germany.

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Thuringia

Thuringia, officially the Free State of Thuringia, is a state of central Germany, covering, the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states.

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Thuringian Forest

The Thuringian Forest (Thüringer Wald in German) is a mountain range in the southern parts of the German state of Thuringia, running northwest to southeast. Rhön Mountains and Thuringian Forest are Biosphere reserves of Germany and mountain ranges of Thuringia.

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Thuringian Highland

The Thuringian Highland, Thuringian Highlands or Thuringian-Vogtlandian Slate Mountains (Thüringer Schiefergebirge or Thüringisches Schiefergebirge, literally "Thuringian Slate Hills") is a low range of mountains in the German state of Thuringia. Rhön Mountains and Thuringian Highland are mountain ranges of Thuringia.

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Totnansberg

The Totnansberg, occasionally also called the Totmannsberg, is the highest peak in the Black Mountains, a subunit of the Rhön in central Germany.

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Triassic

The Triassic (sometimes symbolized 🝈) is a geologic period and system which spans 50.5 million years from the end of the Permian Period 251.902 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Jurassic Period 201.4 Mya.

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Trinia glauca

Trinia glauca (honewort) is a low-growing umbellifer found in rocky areas.

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Ulster (river)

The Ulster is a river in Central Germany that flows through the states of Thuringia and Hesse.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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Vacha, Germany

Vacha is a town in the Wartburgkreis district, in Thuringia, Germany.

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Vogelsberg

The is a large volcanic mountain range in the German Central Uplands in the state of Hesse, separated from the Rhön Mountains by the Fulda river valley. Rhön Mountains and Vogelsberg are extinct volcanoes of Europe, mountain ranges of Hesse, natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands and volcanoes of Germany.

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Volcanic pipe

Volcanic pipes or volcanic conduits are subterranean geological structures formed by the violent, supersonic eruption of deep-origin volcanoes.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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Vulcanite

Vulcanite is a rare copper telluride mineral.

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Wasserkuppe

The Wasserkuppe is a mountain within the German state of Hesse.

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Wasserkuppen Rhön

The Wasserkuppen Rhön or Wasserkuppenrhön, named after its highest peak, also the highest summit in the entire Rhön Mountains, the Wasserkuppe, is an exposed highland ridge and natural region in the Hessian county of Fulda and Bavarian county of Rhön-Grabfeld. Rhön Mountains and Wasserkuppen Rhön are mountain ranges of Bavaria, mountain ranges of Hesse and natural regions of the East Hesse Highlands.

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References

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

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