Bergwinkel is a region around the town of

Schlüchtern Schlüchtern is a town in the Main-Kinzig district, in Hessen, Germany. It is located on the river Kinzig, approximately 30 km southwest of Fulda. Schlüchtern has a population close to 16,000. Location Schlüchtern is located in the ''Bergw ...

in the county of

Main-Kinzig-Kreis Main-Kinzig-Kreis is a Kreis (district) in the east of Hesse, Germany. Neighboring districts are Wetteraukreis, Vogelsbergkreis, Fulda, Bad Kissingen, Main-Spessart, Aschaffenburg, Offenbach and the district-free cities of Offenbach and Frankfu ...

East Hesse East Hesse (german: Osthessen) is a common but not unofficial regional name for the eastern part of the German state of Hesse as well as a regional planning region. It corresponds roughly to the Hessian catchment area of Fulda and its heart covers t ...

Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG),, is a country in Central Europe. It is the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the sou ...

. It describes a small region of the Landrücken, in which the foothills of the Brückenau Kuppenrhön to the east, the Sandstone Spessart to the south and the Southern Lower Vogelsberg to the west come together. In the dictionary, ''Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache'' by

Joachim Heinrich Campe Joachim Heinrich Campe (29 June 1746 – 22 October 1818) was a German writer, linguist, educator and publisher. He was a major representative of philanthropinism and the German Enlightenment. Life Born to the merchant Burchard Hilmar Campe and ...

, the German word ''Bergwinkel'' is generically defined as "an angle between hills, a valley, which ends between two hills in a sharp angle." In Schlüchtern there is the

Bergwinkel Museum Bergwinkel is a region around the town of Schlüchtern in the county of Main-Kinzig-Kreis in East Hesse, Germany. It describes a small region of the Landrücken, in which the foothills of the Brückenau Kuppenrhön to the east, the Sandstone ...

. The best known individual from the region is the medieval knight,

Ulrich von Hutten Ulrich von Hutten (21 April 1488 – 29 August 1523) was a German knight, scholar, poet and satirist, who later became a follower of Martin Luther and a Protestant reformer. By 1519, he was an outspoken critic of the Roman Catholic Church. Hut ...

, who was born at

Steckelberg Castle Steckelberg Castle (german: Burg Steckelberg) is a ruined hill castle near Ramholz, in the borough of the East Hessian town of Schlüchtern in Germany. Location The ruins of the old castle lie east of Vollmerz and northeast of Ramholz on th ...

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