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The Seekopf is a mountain, , near Forbach in the Northern Black Forest between the Badener Höhe and the Schwarzenbach Reservoir. Over the Seekopf runs the West Way, the best known hiking trail in the Black Forest. On the very thinly wooded summit there is a monument to Phillipp Bussemer, a member of the Black Forest Club who died in 1918. On the eastern flank of the mountain in a 170-metre-deep
cirque A (; from the Latin word ') is an amphitheatre-like valley formed by glacial erosion. Alternative names for this landform are corrie (from Scottish Gaelic , meaning a pot or cauldron) and (; ). A cirque may also be a similarly shaped landform ...
is a lake, the
Herrenwieser See The Herrenwieser See is a tarn (lake), tarn in the municipality of Forbach (Baden), Forbach in the Northern Black Forest in Germany. It lies at a height of 830 metres, a little northwest of the Schwarzenbach Reservoir and 1,600 metres as the crow ...
. West of the Seekopf on the other side of the saddle, which forms the transition to the Badener Höhe, is the Black Forest National Park which was established in 2014.


Power station project

As part of an expansion of the Forbach Pumped Storage Power Station, the EnBW plan to build a new upper basin over the summit area of the Seekopf. A circular embankment is intended to impound 2 million cubic metres of water. The area required is 23 hectares. By the end of 2016 the dossier for the planning approval process will be worked up, then the company will decide whether to proceed with the project.''Nationalpark beeinträchtigt Seekopf-Pläne.'' In: ''Badisches Tagblatt'', Der Murgtäler dated 27 February 2014


Nearby mountain with same name

Only 11 kilometres further south, also in the Northern Black Forest, lies another mountain of the same name, the Seekopf between Seebach in the county of Ortenaukreis and the Wildsee lake near Ruhestein.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Seekopf#Forbach One-thousanders of Germany Mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg Mountains and hills of the Black Forest Rastatt (district)