Frickenhofer Höhe

Frickenhofer Höhe
The Frickenhofer Höhe south of the Naturraums Swabian-Franconian Forest
Highest point
Peak	Hohentannen
Elevation	565.4 m (1,855 ft)
Geography
State	Ostalbkreis and Schwäbisch Hall, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Range coordinates	48°59′21″N 9°47′21″E / 48.989028°N 09.78917°E / 48.989028; 09.78917Coordinates: 48°59′21″N 9°47′21″E / 48.989028°N 09.78917°E / 48.989028; 09.78917
Parent range	Swabian-Franconian Forest

The Frickenhofer Höhe is hill range, up to 565.4 m above sea level (NHN), in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. Most of the range falls within the county of im Ostalbkreis but its northern spurs reach into Schwäbisch Hall. The elongated plateau-like region is named after the village of Frickenhofen, a settlement on the narrow northwest tip of the hills in the municipality of Gschwend. The

The Frickenhofer Höhe is located south of the Limpurg Hills, north of Albuch, a part of the Swabian Jura, and east of the Welzheim Forest. The range lies in a triangle formed by the towns of Gaildorf to the northwest, Aalen to the southeast and Schwäbisch Gmünd to the southwest. It takes the shape of an elongated arc running from Schönberg (borough of Gaildorf) in the north to Abtsgmünd in the southeast. Municipalities within the region include Gschwend, Eschach, Göggingen, Ruppertshofen and Schechingen.

The northern boundary of the Frickenhofer Höhe and its spurs is the lowest reaches of the ”Fichtenberger” Rot, a river that approaches from the west and empties into the River Kocher near Gaildorf-Unterrot. The other boundaries, running anti-clockwise, are the “Gschwender” Rot and its two headstreams, the Lein and Kocher. The Gschwender Rot flows out of Gschwend southwards through the small villages of Birkenlohe, Hönig and the Rehnenmühle Retention Basin to its mouth on the Lein in Täferrot and demarcates the range to the west where it adjoins the Welzheim Forest. The Lein initially rns to Heuchlingen in an easterly direction. It forms the southern boundary as it heads northeast to its mouth on the Kocher in Abtsgmünd, separating the range from the Welland. The left side of the Kocher valley from Abtsgmünd via Sulzbach-Laufen to Unterrot is its most prominent dividing line with the Limpurg Hills.