Dammersfeld Ridge
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| name = Dammersfeld Ridge
| map = Germany Bavaria#Germany Hesse
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| photo = Dammersfeld.jpg
| photo_caption = The Dammersfeldkuppe
| state = Counties of Bad Kissingen and Rhön-Grabfeld, Bavaria, and county of Fulda, Hesse, {{GER}}
| parent = Southern High Rhön, High Rhön, Rhön
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| highest = Dammersfeldkuppe
| elevation = {{Höhe|927.9|DE-NHN}}
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| range_coordinates = {{coord|50.3969|N|9.8621|E|region:DE_type:mountain_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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The Dammersfeld Ridge ({{langx|de|Dammersfeldrücken}}) is a low mountain chain in the High Rhön in Germany, which begins on a line from Bischofsheim to Gersfeld and runs in a southwesterly direction to Riedenberg – Werberg – Maria Ehrenberg. The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the Wildflecken Training Area. Its highest point is the Dammersfeldkuppe, the second-highest mountain in the Rhön. The Bavarian-Hessian state border runs along the crest of the mountain chain.
Natural regions
The Dammersfeld Ridge was first defined in 1968 as a natural region as part of the natural regional classification of Germany at a map scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows:Brigitte Schwenzer: Geographische Landesaufnahme: Die naturräumlichen Einheiten auf Blatt 140 Schweinfurt - Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Bad Godesberg 1968 → [http://geographie.giersbeck.de/karten/140.pdf Online-Karte] (PDF, 4 MB)
- (part of no. 35 East Hesse Highlands)
- (part of no. 354 High Rhön)
- (part of no. 354.0 Southern High Rhön)
- 354.00 Dammersfeld Ridge
Mountains
- Dammersfeldkuppe ({{Convert|927.9|m|ft|abbr=on}}; northwest of Wildflecken, in the southwest of the area)
- Dreifeldskuppe ({{Convert|832|m|ft|abbr=on}}, west-northwest summit)
- {{Interlanguage link|Ottersteine|de}} ({{Convert|821|m|ft|abbr=on}}, northern summit)
- Bremerkopf {{Convert|797|m|ft|abbr=on}}
- {{Interlanguage link|Dalherdakuppe|de}} ({{Convert|801|m|ft|abbr=on}}, north-northwestern summit)
- Eierhauckberg ({{Convert|910|m|ft|abbr=on}})
- Beilstein ({{Convert|865|m|ft|abbr=on}}; west-southwestern summit)
- Hohe Hölle ({{Convert|894|m|ft|abbr=on}})
- Himmeldunkberg ({{Convert|888|m|ft|abbr=on}}, southern summit)
- {{Interlanguage link|Teufelsberg (Rhön)|lt=Teufelsberg|de}} ({{Convert|844|m|ft|abbr=on}}, southwestern summit)
- Mittelberg ({{Convert|880|m|ft|abbr=on}}; almost a northeastern spur of the Eierhauckberg)
- Schachen ({{Convert|857|m|ft|abbr=on}}; eastern summit)
- Rommerser Berg ({{Convert|850|m|ft|abbr=on}}; northern summit)
- Zornberg ({{Convert|838|m|ft|abbr=on}}, southern summit)
- Rückberg ({{Convert|870|m|ft|abbr=on}}, almost a southern spur of the Dammersfeldkuppe)
- {{Interlanguage link|Reesberg (Rhön)|lt=Reesberg|de}} ({{Convert|851|m|ft|abbr=on}})
- {{Interlanguage link|Simmelsberg|de}} ({{Convert|843|m|ft|abbr=on}}, with the {{Interlanguage link|Simmelsberg winter sports area|de|Wintersportgebiet Simmelsberg}})
- Großer Auersberg ({{Convert|809|m|ft|abbr=on}})
- Kleiner Auersberg ({{Convert|808|m|ft|abbr=on}})
- Ehrenberg {{Convert|674|m|ft|abbr=on}}
File:Kreuzberg-Panorama.jpg|View from the Kreuzberg northward to the Dammersfeld Ridge with Kleiner- and Großer Auersberg, Dammersfeldkuppe, Eierhauckberg and Himmeldunkberg.