Holzstöcke | |
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![]() The Holzstöcke seen from the Iller valley near Kirchberg | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
Coordinates | 48°7′51.96″N 10°1′0.48″E / 48.1311000°N 10.0168000°E |
Dimensions | |
Area | 381.9 km2 (147.5 sq mi) |
Geography | |
Parent range | Alpine Foreland |
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) [1] and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres. [2] 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. [2]
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): [1]
Holzstöcke | |
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![]() The Holzstöcke seen from the Iller valley near Kirchberg | |
Highest point | |
Elevation | 700 m (2,300 ft) |
Coordinates | 48°7′51.96″N 10°1′0.48″E / 48.1311000°N 10.0168000°E |
Dimensions | |
Area | 381.9 km2 (147.5 sq mi) |
Geography | |
Parent range | Alpine Foreland |
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) [1] and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres. [2] 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. [2]
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): [1]