High Taunus
| High Taunus Hoher Taunus |
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Overview map of the Taunus
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| Highest point | |
| Peak | Großer Feldberg |
| Elevation | 879 m above NHN |
| Dimensions | |
| Area | 314.92 km2 (121.59 sq mi) |
| Geography | |
| State | Hesse, Germany |
| Range coordinates | 50°13′57″N 8°27′32″E / 50.23250°N 08.458917°ECoordinates: 50°13′57″N 8°27′32″E / 50.23250°N 08.458917°E |
| Parent range | Taunus |
| Geology | |
| Orogeny | Low mountains |
| Type of rock | Grey phyllite, Hermeskeil beds, coloured slate, Taunus quartzite |
The High Taunus (German: Hoher Taunus) is the name of a major natural region unit (no. 301) in the Hessian Central Uplands range of the Taunus mountains and forms the area immediately around the main ridge of the Taunus. It should not be confused with the term Hochtaunus, in the sense used in the name of the county of Hochtaunuskreis which is only the eastern part of the Feldberg massif. The High Taunus separates the Anterior Taunus in the south from the Lower Taunus in the north and includes the majority of the highest mountains and hills of the Taunus. The eastern part of the natural region lies within the Taunus Nature Park and its western part in the Rhine-Taunus Nature Park.
The High Taunus runs as a mountain ridge from southwest to northeast from the Middle Rhine opposite the Bingen Forest to the Wetterau before Bad Nauheim for a distance of 75 kilometres; its average widths being only 4 to 5 km. The narrowest point on the ridge is only 2.4 km and is located on the heights of the Saalburg. At 7 km, the widest part of the natural region lies between Presberg and Rüdesheim am Rhein. From the Main-Taunus Plain (ca. 100 m above sea level (NHN)) in the south the ridge zone climbs rapidly and steeply to over 600 to 879 m, and rises above the plain by 400 to 600 metres (m). To the north the Taunus ridge descends steeply but only around 200 to 300 m to the Lower Taunus.
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