Hoher Stoppelkopf

Hoher Stoppelkopf
Hoher Stoppelkopf
	Wayside cairn marking a track near the Stoppelkopf
Highest point
Elevation	566.2 m above sea level (NN) (1,857 ft) [1]
Coordinates	49°23′50″N8°04′25″E / 49.3972°N 8.0737°E Coordinates: 49°23′50″N8°04′25″E / 49.3972°N 8.0737°E
Geography
	Hoher Stoppelkopf Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Parent range	Palatine Forest
Geology
Mountain type	Bunter sandstone

Last updated April 07, 2019

The Hohe Stoppelkopf, locally just called the Stoppelkopf, is a 566.2-metre-high hill^[1] in the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies 3 km north of the small town of Lambrecht.

Rhineland-Palatinate is a state of Germany.

Together with the Drachenfels (577 m) to the northwest and the Stabenberg (496 m) to the east, the Stoppelkopf lies on the watershed between the catchment areas of two Palatine Rhine tributaries, the Speyerbach (south) and the Isenach (north). The two longest tributaries of the Mußbach rise on the Stoppelkopf; both later empty into the left mouth branch of the Speyerbach, the Rehbach.

Drachenfels (Central Palatinate Forest) mountain in the northern Palatine Forest, Germany

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Attractions

About 110 metres north-northeast of the summit of the Hoher Stoppfelkopf a hunting lodge was built in 1900, the Hermannshütte (also called the Emil Leidner Hut),^[2]^[3] which is unmanaged. At the top a summit cross was erected in 2003 by the Deidesheim Branch of the Palatine Forest Club.^[2] About 2 km northeast of the Stoppelkopf lies the deer conservation park, the Kurpfalz Park,^[4] which is accessible from Wachenheim on a well-developed tarmac road (8 km).

A summit cross is a cross on the summit of a mountain or hill that marks the top. Often there will be a summit register (Gipfelbuch) at the cross, either in a container or at least a weatherproof case.

The Palatine Forest Club is a hiking club in the former Bavarian Palatinate, i.e. the southern part of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and the Saarland county of Saarpfalz-Kreis. In 2011 it had 221 local branches with around 27,000 members.

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References

1 2 Map service of the Landscape Information System of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Office (Naturschutzverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz)
1 2 "Nachtwanderung des PWV Esthal". mittelpfalz.de. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
↑ "„Hermanns-Hütte" am Hinteren Stoppelkopf". tourenwelt.info. Retrieved 2014-09-17.
↑ "Wild und Natur erleben". Kurpfalz-Park. Archived from the original on 2014-09-16. Retrieved 2014-09-16.

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[DE-RP_LANDIS-Karte-1] 1 2 Map service of the Landscape Information System of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Office (Naturschutzverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz)

[Mittelpfalz-2] 1 2 "Nachtwanderung des PWV Esthal". mittelpfalz.de. Retrieved 2014-09-17.

[Tourenwelt-3] "„Hermanns-Hütte" am Hinteren Stoppelkopf". tourenwelt.info. Retrieved 2014-09-17.

[Parkbetreiber-4] "Wild und Natur erleben". Kurpfalz-Park. Archived from the original on 2014-09-16. Retrieved 2014-09-16.