Dammersfeld Ridge
# Dammersfeld Ridge

The Dammersfeld Ridge (German: 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. The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the Wildflecken Training Area. Its highest point is the Dammersfeldkuppe, the second-highest mountain in the Rhön. The Bavarian-Hessian state border runs along the crest of the mountain chain.

## Natural regions

The Dammersfeld Ridge was first defined in 1968 as a natural region as part of the natural regional classification of Germany at a map scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows:

* (part of no. 35 East Hesse Highlands)
   * (part of no. 354 High Rhön)
      * (part of no. 354.0 Southern High Rhön)
         * 354.00 Dammersfeld Ridge

## Mountains

* Dammersfeldkuppe (927.9 m (3,044 ft); northwest of Wildflecken, in the southwest of the area)
   * Dreifeldskuppe (832 m (2,730 ft), west-northwest summit)
   * Ottersteine [de] (821 m (2,694 ft), northern summit)
      * Bremerkopf 797 m (2,615 ft)
   * Dalherdakuppe [de] (801 m (2,628 ft), north-northwestern summit)
* Eierhauckberg (910 m (2,990 ft))
   * Beilstein (865 m (2,838 ft); west-southwestern summit)
* Hohe Hölle (894 m (2,933 ft))
   * Himmeldunkberg (888 m (2,913 ft), southern summit)
   * Teufelsberg [de] (844 m (2,769 ft), southwestern summit)
* Mittelberg (880 m (2,890 ft); almost a northeastern spur of the Eierhauckberg)
   * Schachen (857 m (2,812 ft); eastern summit)
   * Rommerser Berg (850 m (2,790 ft); northern summit)
   * Zornberg (838 m (2,749 ft), southern summit)
* Rückberg (870 m (2,850 ft), almost a southern spur of the Dammersfeldkuppe)
* Reesberg [de] (851 m (2,792 ft))
* Simmelsberg [de] (843 m (2,766 ft), with the Simmelsberg winter sports area [de])
* Großer Auersberg (809 m (2,654 ft))
* Kleiner Auersberg (808 m (2,651 ft))
* Ehrenberg 674 m (2,211 ft)
* View from the Kreuzberg northward to the Dammersfeld Ridge with Kleiner- and Großer Auersberg, Dammersfeldkuppe, Eierhauckberg and Himmeldunkberg.
