The Dinkelberg is a partially forested hill range, up to , about 145 km² in area, in the High Rhine region of

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. It lies within the counties of

Lörrach Lörrach () is a town in southwest Germany, in the valley of the Wiese, close to the French and the Swiss borders. It is the capital of the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg. It is the home of a number of large employers, including t ...

and Waldshut in the German state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

and the Swiss canton of Basel-Stadt. It is on the southwestern edge of the Southern Black Forest, from which it is geologically distinct.

Geography

Location

The Dinkelberg lies mainly in the county of Lörrach, but its eastern part in the area of the

Wehra Wehra is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It passes through Todtmoos and Wehr and flows into the Rhine downstream of Bad Säckingen. See also *List of rivers of Baden-Württemberg A list of rivers of Baden-Württemberg, Germany: A * Aa ...

valley belongs to the county of Waldshut (both in Germany) and a smaller element in the west is part of the canton of Basel-Stadt in Switzerland. It is bounded in the south by the valley of the

High Rhine The High Rhine (german: Hochrhein) is the name used for the part of the Rhine that flows westbound from Lake Constance to Basel. The High Rhine begins at the outflow of the Rhine from the Untersee in Stein am Rhein and turns into the Upper Rhine ...

, in the north and west by the Wiese valley and in the esat by the Wehra valley. It lies between the larger settlements of

Schopfheim Schopfheim is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Wiese, 10 km north of Rheinfelden, and 13 km east of Lörrach. The town is the birthplace of Gisela Oeri, Max Picard, and ...

to the north, Wehr to the east, Rheinfelden to the south and

and the

Homburg Forest The Homburg Forest (german: Homburgwald or just ''Homburg'') also known as the Homburg Hills (''Homburger Berge'') is an area of upland up to in the north German state of Lower Saxony. Geography The Homburg Forest is located in the district o ...

to the west. Its highest hill is the Hohe Flum (536.2 m), on which is an open observation tower and an eponymous hotel-restaurant.

Hills

Amongst the hills and foothills of the Dinkelberg are the following, sorted by height in

metre The metre (British spelling) or meter (American spelling; see spelling differences) (from the French unit , from the Greek noun , "measure"), symbol m, is the primary unit of length in the International System of Units (SI), though its prefi ...

s (m) above sea level, based on the NHN reference system in Germany and the ''Meter über Meer'' (m ü. M.) in Switzerland: * Hohe Flum (536.2 m; GE), south-southwest of Wiechs; with its

observation tower An observation tower is a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision to conduct long distance observations. Observation towers are usually at least tall and are made from stone, iron, an ...

* Hirzenleck (523.4 m; GE), 1 km north of Herten; with the Eigenturm observation tower * St. Chrischona (522 m; SW), in Bettingen- Chrischona; with the St. Chrischona TV tower * Mauerhaldebuck (493.3 m; GE), southeast of

Maulburg Maulburg is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Transport The municipality has a railway station, , on the Wiese Valley Railway The Wiese Valley Railway (german: Wiesentalbahn) is a 27.2 km long, el ...

* Mezelhöhe (Metzelhöhe; 487.1 m; GE), 2 km east-northeast of Salzert * Eichberg (477.7 m; GE), northwest of Degerfelden * Schachbühl (465.9 m; GE), 1.4 km north of Dossenbach * Schindelberg (419.0 m; GE), east of

Waterbodies

Amongst the rivers and streams of the Dinkelberg are the Löhrgraben, which flows into the Wiese near , the Bachtelengraben, which empties into the Rhine near Schwörstadt-Unterdorf, the Dürrenbach, which discharges into the Rhine at Rheinfelden and the Hagenbacher Bach and the Waidbach, the headstreams of the Großbach (also called the ''Warmbach''), which also flows into the Rhine, at Rheinfelden- Warmbach. Amongst its lakes belongs the

Eichener See The Eichener See ("Lake Eichen"), known in the Alemannic dialect as the Eiemer See, near Eichen in the Baden-Württemberg county of Lörrach is a periodic (''astatic'') karst lake in the Southern Black Forest in Germany. The lake, which only c ...

near

- Eichen.

Natural monuments

near

- Eichen * Erdmanns Cave (''Erdmannshöhle'') or Hasler Cave (''Hasler Höhle'') on the edge of Hasel * Teufelsloch, a funnel doline near Rheinfelden- Nordschwaben * Teufelsloch, funnel doline near Rheinfelden- Karsau * Tschamber Cave (''Tschamberhöhle'') in Rheinfelden-Karsau, village of Riedmatt

Settlements

Towns and villages in and around the Dinkelberg region are (clockwise from the north): *

* Wehr *

Schwörstadt Schwörstadt is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe aft ...

* Minseln *

Eichsel Rheinfelden ( gsw, Badisch-Rhyfälde, ) is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, across from Rheinfelden, Switzerland, and 15 km east of Basel. The population is ...

* Adelhausen * Rheinfelden *

Inzlingen Inzlingen is a village in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. From the Fondation Beyeler, a famous art collection in Riehen in the canton Basel Stadt, Switzerland, the street Inzlingerstrasse goes uphill to Inz ...

Grenzach-Wyhlen Grenzach-Wyhlen is a municipality in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the Rhine, 7 km east of Basel, and 8 km south of Lörrach. It has borders to Inzlingen and Rheinfelden ...

* Steinen

Literature

* Friedrich Disch: ''Studien zur Kulturgeographie des Dinkelberges''. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg, 1971. * Hermann Wider: ''Der Dinkelberg.'' In: Geschichtsverein Markgräflerland (Hrsg.): ''Das Markgräflerland. Beiträge zu seiner Geschichte und Kultur.'' Schopfheim, 2010, 1, pp. 4–46.

References

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− ''Dinkelberg''

External links

Offizielle Website der Interessengemeinschaft Dinkelberg
(Vereinigung von Gemeinden, Vereinen und Verbänden im Dinkelberg)
Schwarzwald Tourismus GmbH: Dinkelberg

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