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Simmersberg
The Simmersberg is a mountain, , near Schnett in the municipality of Masserberg) in the county of Hildburghausen in Germany. It is the main summit of a forked mountain chain, which runs along the boundary between the Thuringian Forest and the Thuringian Highland from Masserberg towards the southwest and is bounded by the valleys of the Schleuse (in the northwest) and its tributary, the Biber (in the south). Other subpeaks of the ridge are the ''Hohe Warth (718 m)'' in the west, the ''Kohlberg (718 m)'' in the southwest, the ''Schnetter Berg (757 m)'' in the north and the ''Höheberg (780 m)'' in the northeast. The volcanic origins within the otherwise non-volcanic mountain ridge can be recognised especially well near the Simmersberg and its two 718 metre-high pre-summits. The 740-metre-high ''Holzberg'', which is 2 km northeast and adjacent to the Schnetter Berg and north of the Höheberg, separated by a deep valley from the Simmersberg peak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gleichberge
The Gleichberge, which mainly comprise the Großer and Kleiner Gleichberg, are a small, inselberg-like mountain range, up to , in the southwestern part of the German state of Thuringia. They rise just east of the little ancient town of Römhild in the county of Hildburghausen. The Gleichberge are the most imposing witnesses to the Tertiary volcanic activity of the '' Heldburger Gangschar'', which once ran from here to south of the River Main. Geography The Gleichberge, which consist mostly of the volcanic basalt cones of the Großer Gleichberg (679.0 m) in the south and the Kleiner Gleichberg (641.3 m) in the north, are located in the county of Hildburghausen between the Thuringian town of Hildburghausen and the Franconian town of Bad Königshofen. They lie southwest of the Werra valley, roughly east of the village of Römhild, on the northeastern perimeter of the Grabfeld country. West and northwest of the Gleichberge are the Rhön Mountains, to the northeast an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thuringian Highland
The Thuringian Highland, Thuringian Highlands or Thuringian-Vogtlandian Slate MountainsKohl, Horst; Marcinek, Joachim and Nitz, Bernhard (1986). ''Geography of the German Democratic Republic'', VEB Hermann Haack, Gotha, p. 7 ff. . (german: Thüringer Schiefergebirge or ''Thüringisches Schiefergebirge'', literally "Thuringian Slate Hills") is a low range of mountains in the German state of Thuringia. Geography The Thuringian Highland borders on the Thuringian Forest to the southwest. It is a plateau about 20 km wide that slopes southeast towards the Saale valley in the area of the Saale Dam and includes parts of the Thuringian Forest and Thuringian Highland and Upper Saale Nature Park. The largest towns in the Thuringian Highland are Saalfeld and Bad Blankenburg which lie on its northern perimeter, Neuhaus am Rennweg in the highest region and Bad Lobenstein on the eastern edge (where it transitions into Franconian Forest). The area includes a total of 4 smaller regions: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schneekopf
The Schneekopf near Gehlberg in the Thuringian county of Ilm-Kreis is and thus the second highest peak in the Thuringian Forest after its western neighbour, the Großer Beerberg (). The ''Adler'' Saddle between them is only about 59.4 metres lower than the two summits. To the east some distance away is its subpeak, the ''Sachsenstein'' (), to the south are the ''Teufelskreise'' () and ''Fichtenkopf'' (). The ''Goldlauterberg'' () further south marks the transition to the mountain of Großer Finsterberg (). Description The mountain is of volcanic origin and consists of porphyry. It is known for the Schneekopf balls (''Schneekopfkugel''), balls of porphyry ( druse) that occur here that form agate in the interior of crystals. They were formed during a volcanic eruption in the Permian. On the northern slopes of the mountain rises the Wilde Gera stream. From the summit plateau there is a good all round view of other summits in the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön mountai ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Beerberg
The Großer Beerberg is a mountain, , whose summit is the highest point in the Thuringian Forest and the state of Thuringia. It is located between the three villages of Heidersbach, Goldlauter and Gehlberg in the borough of Suhl. The mountain is made of rhyolite (quartz porphry) that was formed through volcanic processes in the Rotliegendes rock of the Oberhof Formation, about 280 million years ago,Lützner, H., Andreas, D., Schneider, J.W., Voigt, S. & Werneburg, W. (2012): Stefan und Rotliegend im Thüringer Wald und seiner Umgebung. In: Deutsche Stratigraphische Kommission (publ.; coordination and production: H. Lützner & G. Kowalczyk für die Subkommission Perm-Trias): Stratigraphie von Deutschland X. Rotliegend. Teil I: Innervariscische Becken. Schriftenreihe der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Geowissenschaften 61: 418–487. and which was uplifted over the surrounding sediments to form a butte. Between the summit of the Beerberg and that of its eastern neighbour, the Schneek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grendel (mountain)
Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem ''Beowulf'' (700–1000). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. Grendel is feared by all in Heorot but Beowulf. A descendant of Cain, Grendel is described as "a creature of darkness, exiled from happiness and accursed of God, the destroyer and devourer of our human kind". He is usually depicted as a monster or a giant, although his status as a monster, giant, or other form of supernatural being is not clearly described in the poem and thus remains the subject of scholarly debate. The character of Grendel and his role in the story of ''Beowulf'' have been subject to numerous reinterpretations and re-imaginings. Story Grendel is a character in the poem ''Beowulf,'' preserved in the ''Nowell Codex''. Grendel, being cursed as the descendant of the Biblical Cain, is "harrowed" by the sounds of singing that come every night fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiningen
Meiningen () is a town in the southern part of the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in the region of Franconia and has a population of around 25,000 (2021)." target="_blank" class="mw-redirect" title="City of Meiningen, citizen service">City of Meiningen, citizen service Jahresrückblick 2021 (year review), PDF (4,4 MB). Meiningen is the capital and the largest town of the district. From 1680 to 1920, Meiningen was the capital of the Duchy (and briefly of the Free State) of . Meiningen is consider ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frauenwald
Frauenwald is a village and a former municipality in the district Ilm-Kreis, in Thuringia, Germany. Since 1 January 2019, it is part of the town of Ilmenau Ilmenau () is a town in Thuringia, central Germany. It is the largest town within the Ilm district with a population of 38,600, while the district capital is Arnstadt. Ilmenau is located approximately south of Erfurt and north of Nuremberg .... References Former municipalities in Thuringia Ilm-Kreis {{IlmKreis-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalter Staudenkopf
Alan Robert Kalter (March 21, 1943 – October 4, 2021) was an American television announcer from New York City. He is best known as the announcer for the ''Late Show with David Letterman'', a role he held from September 4, 1995, until Letterman's retirement on May 20, 2015. He also hosted ''Alan Kalter's Celebrity Interview'' that ran concurrently with ''The Late Show''. Career Kalter, nicknamed "Big Red" and "TV's Uncle Jerry" by Letterman, began his stint as the "voice" of the ''Late Show with David Letterman'' on September 4, 1995, replacing the retiring Bill Wendell. He announced the guests at the top of each show and the one-liner during the Worldwide Pants title card after the credits and regularly acted in comedic sketches. Kalter did hundreds of voiceovers for national radio and television commercials and was also the lead continuity voice for the USA Network throughout much of the 1980s (his voice was still heard on USA into the mid-2010s for the network' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Großer Eisenberg
Grosser or Großer is the masculine nominative singular form of the German adjective "gross", meaning "big", "great", "large", "tall", and the like. It is part of many placenames, especially of mountains. It is also a surname. People with that surname include: * Alfred Grosser (born 1925), German-French writer, sociologist, and political scientist * Arthur Grosser (active from 1987), Canadian physical chemist and actor * Peter Grosser (1938–2021), German football player and coach * Philip Grosser (1890–1933), Ukrainian-American anarchist and anti-militarist * Thomas Grosser (1965–2008), German footballer * Pamela Grosser (born 1977), German actress See also * Gross (other) Gross may refer to: Finance *Gross Cash Registers, a defunct UK company with a high profile in the 1970s *Gross (economics), is the total income before deducting expenses Science and measurement *Gross (unit), a counting unit equal to 144 i ... * * {{surname Surnames of German origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
