Franconian Heights
| Franconian Heights (Frankenhöhe) |
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Typical landscape of the Franconian Heights: Virnsberg Castle on its eponymous hill
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| Highest point | |
| Peak | Hornberg |
| Elevation | 554 m above NN |
| Dimensions | |
| Area | 653.3 km2 (252.2 sq mi) |
| Geography | |
| State | Bavaria, Baden-Württemberg |
| Range coordinates | 49°22′57″N 10°24′42″E / 49.3825°N 10.4117°ECoordinates: 49°22′57″N 10°24′42″E / 49.3825°N 10.4117°E |
| Parent range | Franconian Keuper-Lias Land/Keuper Uplands |
| Geology | |
| Type of rock | Keuper |
The Franconian Heights (German: Frankenhöhe) are a hill ridge, up to 554 m above sea level (NN), in Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in South Germany.
The Franconian Heights lie in the west of Franconia on either side of the border between Bavaria in the east (with the counties of Neustadt a.d.Aisch-Bad Windsheim and Ansbach) and Baden-Württemberg in the west (Schwäbisch Hall and a small area of the Ostalbkreis). The larger part lies in Bavaria; the markedly smaller southwestern element is in Baden-Württemberg. It includes the southern part of the so-called Crailsheim Hardt (‘’Crailsheimer Hardt’’), which extends in an arc around the town of Crailsheim from the ramp of the A 6 northeast of Satteldorf in the north as far as Jagst near Stimpfach in the south, where it transitions into the Virngrund. It also includes the little basin of the upper Zwergwörnitz to the southeast, near Kreßberg.
The Franconian Heights, whose plateau has a hill country character in places, lie south of the somewhat lower hills of the Steigerwald, east of the Hohenlohe Plain and northeast of the Ellwangen Hills and not quite half way on a line from Nuremberg to Stuttgart, east of Rothenburg.
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