Holzstöcke
# Holzstöcke

The Holzstöcke is an elongated, densely forested, mountain range running from north to south in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is up to about 700 m above sea level (NN) and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres. It is a large, terraced landscape that is part of the Iller-Lech Plateau in the Alpine Foreland of south Germany. It lies southwest of the city of Ulm in the counties of Alb-Donau-Kreis and Biberach in Upper Swabia and rises above the valley floors by about 75 metres.

## Mountains and hills

In the southern part of the Holzstöcke near Aitrach the hills gradually rise from heights of around 500 m above NN in the north near Illerkirchberg up to the 700 metre contour line in the south where there is an area of unnamed mountains and hills.

The following is a list of the named high points in the Holzstöcke – sorted by height in metres (m) above Normalnull (NN):

* Runder Kopf (631.3 m), 1.3 km west-northwest of Erolzheim; with transmission tower and water tower
* Roter Berg (629.2 m), 1 km south-southwest of Erolzheim
* Frohberg (Kapellenberg; ca. 629 m), immediately south-southwest of Erolzheim; with Froberg Chapel and water tower
* Gehrn (Gern; 621.7 m), 2 km north-northwest of Berkheim
* Banberg (618.5 m), immediately west of Tannheim-Haldau
* Grafenberg (618.3 m), 2.5 km west-southwest of Kirchberg
* Totenkopf (615.6 m), 1 km east-southeast of Tannheim-Krimmel; with nearby Celtic schanze
* Weiherkopf (600.4 m), 1.3 km north-northwest of Erolzheim
* Schlossberg (568.4 m), 1.2 km southeast of Gutenzell-Hürbel-Niedernzell; with the site of Gutenzell Castle Location: 48°07′52″N 10°01′00″E﻿ / ﻿48.1311°N 10.0168°E﻿ / 48.1311; 10.0168
* Weißenberg (550.9 m), between Iller and Weihung near Illerrieden Location: 48°15′41″N 10°02′30″E﻿ / ﻿48.261299°N 10.041543°E﻿ / 48.261299; 10.041543

## Gallery

* The Holzstöcke near Wain in the county of Biberach
* Panoramic view SW of Dietenheim
* The Holzstöcke in the valley of the Weihung, north of the hamlet of Grubach
* The Holzstöcke, south of Kirchberg on the Iller
* The Weihung is a small river that flows through the Holzstöcke.
* The Tannschorrenweiher on the Haslach Plateaux between Haslach and Tannheim
* Tannschorrenweiher
