The Dollberge are a small mountain range in the northern Saarland and the adjoining part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. They form a southeastern element of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald , a region in the Hunsrück mountains, and are up to 707.4 m above sea level (NN) .
8-605: The Dollberge are an elongated chain of low mountains running from southeast to northwest through the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park roughly from Nonnweiler (Saarland) to Börfink (Rhineland-Palatinate). The southwestern tip of the Dollberge lies in the northern Saarland near Nonnweiler; the larger northeastern line of the mountain ridge is located within Rhineland-Palatinate. The mountains of
16-658: Is a Verbandsgemeinde ("collective municipality") in the district of Birkenfeld , Rhineland-Palatinate , Germany . The seat of the Verbandsgemeinde is in Herrstein . It was formed on 1 January 2020 by the merger of the former Verbandsgemeinden Herrstein and Rhaunen . The Verbandsgemeinde Herrstein-Rhaunen consists of the following Ortsgemeinden ("local municipalities"): 49°47′N 7°20′E / 49.78°N 7.33°E / 49.78; 7.33 This Rhineland-Palatinate location article
24-525: The Dollberg is the hillfort of Otzenhausen , a Celtic refuge fort ( oppidum ). 49°39′N 7°02′E / 49.650°N 7.033°E / 49.650; 7.033 Saar-Hunsr%C3%BCck Nature Park The Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park ( German : Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück ) was established in 1980 and covers an area of just under 2,000 km² in the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and
32-887: The Saarland . The authority responsible for the nature park is the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park Society ( Verein Naturpark Saar-Hunsrück ) with its headquarters in Hermeskeil . In Hermeskeil the society runs an "experience museum" and one of six information centres. In the Saarland , the nature park lies wholly within the town boroughs and local municipalities of Perl , Mettlach , Losheim am See , Merzig , Weiskirchen , Wadern , Beckingen , Rehlingen-Siersburg , Wallerfangen , Nonnweiler , Tholey , Nohfelden , Oberthal , Namborn , St. Wendel and Freisen . It also lies partly on
40-806: The Dollberge include the following – sorted by height in metres (m) above sea level (NN) : Between the Dollberge and the Schwarzwalder Hochwald is the Prims Reservoir through which the River Prims flows. A tributary of the Prims, the Allbach (Altbach), rises on the Friedrichskopf. The Traunbach flows past the Dollberge to the northeast. In the areas of the southwestern foothills of the Dollberge between Nonnweiler and
48-610: The free municipality of Morbach ( Landkreis Bernkastel-Wittlich ) and the large county town of Idar-Oberstein ( Birkenfeld ). There are seven core zones in the Rhineland –Palatinate part of the park, which are specially protected: The mountains and hills in the Saar-Hunsrück Nature Park include the following – sorted by height in metres (m) above sea level ( Normalnull or NN; unless otherwise stated these are referenced from state map service ): One of
56-757: The nature park's projects is the 218-kilometre-long "premier" long-distance path , the Saar-Hunsrück-Steig from Perl on the border with Luxembourg via Mettlach , Weiskirchen and the Roman city of Trier to the Prims Reservoir , continuing via the Erbeskopf , the circular rampart of Otzenhausen , to the Wildenburger Kopf and finally to Idar-Oberstein . 49°34′N 6°46′E / 49.56°N 6.76°E / 49.56; 6.76 Herrstein-Rhaunen Herrstein-Rhaunen
64-633: The territories of Lebach , in its municipalities of Dörsdorf and Steinbach , the municipality of Schmelz , in its parishes of Dorf , Limbach and Michelbach and within the municipality of Eppelborn , in the parish of Dirmingen . In Rhineland-Palatinate the nature park lies on parts of the territories of the following boroughs and collective municipalities: Saarburg , Konz , Ruwer , Kell am See , Hermeskeil ( Trier-Saarburg ), Thalfang , Bernkastel-Kues ( Bernkastel-Wittlich ), Kirchberg/Hunsrück ( Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis ), Herrstein-Rhaunen , Birkenfeld and Baumholder ( Birkenfeld ) and parts of
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