Location The Limpurg Hills lie about 55 kilometres northeast of
Stuttgart and around 60 kilometres (both
as the crow flies) east-southeast of
Heilbronn, between the
Haller Ebene to the north, the
Ellwangen Hills to the east and southeast, the
Frickenhofer Höhe to the south, the
Mainhardt Forest to the west and the
Waldenburg Hills to the northwest. They lie southeast of
Schwäbisch Hall, west of
Sulzdorf,
Obersontheim,
Bühlertann,
Bühlerzell and
Adelmannsfelden and extend as far as the
Blinde Rot river, northwest of
Abtsgmünd.
Untergröningen,
Sulzbach-Laufen,
Gaildorf,
Westheim and
Michelbach an der Bilz lie immediately west of the forested upland region. Its striking
geomorphological boundaries are the
escarpment in the north that drops down to the Haller Ebene, the
Buhler valley to the east and the great bend of the
Kocher valley gorge to the south and west. To the southeast the Limpurg Hills run with the very narrow and long Unterjura Plateau of the
Büchelberg Ridge down to the mouth of the Blinde Rot.
Hills The highest point of the Limpurg Hills and of the county of Schwäbisch Hall is the
Altenberg (564.7 m), east of
Sulzbach am Kocher, on which there is an observation tower, the Altenberg Tower. Better known, however, is the
Einkorn (510 m), south of
Hessental, which rises above the Hohenloher-Haller Plain, and forms a prominent, westward-running spur of the northern edge of the forest region. Several summits in the following list of high points in the Limpurg Hills (organized by height in metres above
sea level (NHN)), only rise slightly above the very flat plateau of the larger western chain of the hills and, when seen from outside the range, may scarcely be viewed as individual peaks. The smaller and lower, but more deeply incised eastern chain, by comparison, has many more named individual summits. •
Altenberg (564.7 m), ca. 500 m east-southeast of
Sulzbach am Kocher-Hohenberg, with the Altenberg Tower, prominent individual peak in the western hill chain • Höfenberg (555.3 m), ca. 550 m southeast of
Abtsgmünd-Höfenhölzle, highest part of the
Büchelberg Ridge on its northwestern slopes • Herschel (522.1 m), ca. 1,5 km west of the Gaildorf hamlet of Winzenweiler • Streitberg (514.4 m), ca. 2,5 km east-northeast of Gaildorf-
Eutendorf • Bauernschnäue (512.3 m), ca. 2 km southeast of Schwäbisch Hall-
Hessental, starting point of the insignificant eastern chain • Krämersreute (511.3 m), ca. 1 km west-southwest of the Gaildorfer hamlet of Eisbach •
Einkorn (510 m), ca. 1 km southeast of
Hessental railway station, northwest spur • Rauher Berg (508.0 m), ca. 2,5 km west-southwest of Schwäbisch Hall-
Sulzdorf, eastern chain •
Hehlberg (504.0 m), ca. 2 km south-southwest of Sulzdorf, eastern chain • Neuberg (499.1 m), ca. 2,5 km southwest of Sulzdorf, eastern chain • Berg (472.9 m), ca. 1 km northeast of
Obersontheim-Herlebach, eastern chain • Adelberg (466.9 m), ca. 2 km southeast of Rosengarten-
Westheim; with the barely discernible Buchhorn (463.4 m) it is a small independent massif in front of the western chain • Eichelberg (463.2 m), immediately northwest of
Sulzbach am Kocher, western chain, mouth spur of the Eisbach • Häuserberg (449.2 m), about 1,5 km south-southwest of Obersontheim-Hausen, eastern chain • Leippersberg (447.6 m), about 1,5 km west-northwest of
Bühlertann-
Kottspiel, mouth spur of the Fischach and southern end of the eastern chain == References ==