The Seekopf is a mountain on the main chain of the
Northern Black Forest in
Germany between the
Upper Rhine Plain and the
Murg
Murg may refer to:
Places
* Murg (Aare), a river of Switzerland
* Murg (Northern Black Forest), a river and right tributary of the Rhine in the districts of Freudenstadt and Rastatt, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
** Murg Valley Railway
* Murg (Sou ...
valley, above
Seebach. It is and lies on the boundary of the counties of
Ortenaukreis and
Freudenstadt in the state of
Baden-Württemberg.
The mountain ridge, the upper area of which is formed of
bunter sandstone
The Buntsandstein (German for ''coloured'' or ''colourful sandstone'') or Bunter sandstone is a lithostratigraphic and allostratigraphic unit (a sequence of rock strata) in the subsurface of large parts of west and central Europe. The Buntsands ...
, belongs to the
natural region known as ''Grindenschwarzwald and Enzhöhen''. The
Black Forest High Road (B 500) runs along its western flank and, below the eastern mountainside, is a
tarn, the
Wildsee. The
West Way runs over the mountain leading to
Ruhestein, 1.5 kilometres to the southwest. The Seekopf lies within the
Black Forest National Park, established in 2014.
On the summit plateau is the grave of
Julius Euting, a well-known orientalist and co-founder of the
Vosges Club.
Nearby namesake
Just 11 kilometres further north, also in the Northern Black Forest, stands another mountain with the same name, the
Seekopf near Forbach-Herrenwies in the county of
Rastatt.
References
External links
*{{Commons category-inline, Seekopf (Seebach), Seekopf
Mountains and hills of Baden-Württemberg
Mountains and hills of the Black Forest
One-thousanders of Germany
Ortenaukreis