The Central Rhön () is a 5th level natural region which, together with the Southern High Rhön, forms the

High Rhön High may refer to: Science and technology * Height * High (atmospheric), a high-pressure area * High (computability), a quality of a Turing degree, in computability theory * High (tectonics), in geology an area where relative tectonic uplift to ...

. The region has several mountains over 900 metres high, including: the

Wasserkuppe The Wasserkuppe (;) is the highest mountain in the Rhön Mountains, Rhön range and the tallest elevation in the Germany, German state of Hesse, standing at above sea level. It forms a prominent plateau within the Fulda district and is known as ...

(950.0 m) and

Heidelstein The Heidelstein, between Bischofsheim an der Rhön in the Bavarian county of Rhön-Grabfeld and Wüstensachsen in the Hesse, Hessian county of Landkreis Fulda, Fulda, is a mountain, high, on the state border in the mountains of the High Rhön, pa ...

(926 m). Other summits over 900 metres are regarded as subpeaks due to their low isolation and

prominence In topography, prominence or relative height (also referred to as autonomous height, and shoulder drop in US English, and drop in British English) measures the height of a mountain or hill's summit relative to the lowest contour line encircling ...

Boundaries

To the north and west are the Western and Eastern

Kuppen Rhön A ''Kuppe'' is the term used in German-speaking central Europe for a mountain or hill with a rounded summit that has no rock formation, such as a tor, on it. A range of such hills is called a ''Kuppengebirge''. In geology the term also refers to ...

, to the northeast is the

Eastern Rhön Foreland Eastern or Easterns may refer to: Transportation Airlines *China Eastern Airlines, a current Chinese airline based in Shanghai * Eastern Air, former name of Zambia Skyways *Eastern Air Lines, a defunct American airline that operated from 192 ...

. In the southeast is the Eastern South Rhön, which as part of the

South Rhön South is one of the cardinal directions or compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both west and east. Etymology The word ''south'' comes from Old English ''sūþ'', from earlier Proto-Germanic ''*sunþaz' ...

and the tertiary level major region of Odenwald, Spessart und Südrhön, is part of the

South German Scarplands The South German Scarplands is a geological and geomorphological natural region or landscape in Switzerland and the south German states of Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. The landscape is characterised by escarpments. Name It is variously referre ...

(a 2nd order natural region). To the southwest is the

Southern High Rhön The Southern High Rhön (, also ''Südliche Hohe Rhön''Environmental Atlas of Hesse (''Umweltatlas Hessen'')) is a natural region of the 5th level which, together with the Central Rhön, forms the region called the High Rhön. This low mountaino ...

. This is also subordinated to the

. Together with the Anterior and Kuppen Rhön, the High Rhön is part of the

East Hesse Highlands The East Hesse Highlands () describes a heavily wooded range of hills lying mainly in the German state of Hesse, but also extending a little way into Lower Saxony to the north, Thuringia to the east and Bavaria to the southeast. The region is sandwi ...

Natura region

The Central Rhön is described as the ''"central bulge of the High Rhön, a highland region divided into ridges, high plateaus and, in the west, into individual domed summits, sometimes with wooded slopes and grassland on the heights."''Brigitte Schwenzer:'' Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 140 Schweinfurt'' - Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1968 �
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(PDF, 4 MB) The Ulster valley divides it into two ridges, the

Wasserkuppen Rhön The Wasserkuppen Rhön or Wasserkuppenrhön, named after its highest peak, also the highest summit in the entire Rhön Mountains, the Wasserkuppe (), is an exposed highland ridge and natural region in the Hessian county of Fulda and Bavarian coun ...

and

Long Rhön The Long Rhön () is a ridge in the Central Rhön which forms part of the High Rhön within the Rhön Mountains. The Long Rhön is an elongated basalt plateau in the centre, roughly 800 metres above sea level, which is only occasional interrupted ...

References

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