The Heidelstein, between

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in the

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n county of

Rhön-Grabfeld Rhön-Grabfeld is a ''Landkreis'' (district) in Bavaria, Germany. It is bounded by (from the southeast and clockwise) the districts of Hassberge, Schweinfurt and Bad Kissingen, and the states of Hesse (district Fulda) and Thuringia (distri ...

and

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in the Hessian county of

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, is a mountain, high, on the state border in the mountains of 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 ...

, part of the German

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range of Rhön. Its actual summit is in

. Sometimes its main peak is also called Schwabenhimmel. On the Heidelstein are the Heidelstein Transmitter and a memorial of the

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. On the northwestern slopes is the source of the River

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and on the western mountainside is the Rotes Moor Cross Country Skiing Centre.

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