Freiburg Region
Emmendingen
Simonswald

Obereck

At 1,176.6 m above sea level the Obereck is the third highest mountain of the Central Black Forest after the and the . The three mountains also lie within the area designated as the High Black Forest.
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Photo: WWasser, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Kostgefäll and Rohrhardsberg.

Protected area
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is a protected area.

Peak
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The is a mountain in the Central Black Forest in southern . At 1,152.1 metres above sea level, it is the northernmost summit of the elongated, north-south oriented Farnberg Plateau that has several high points over 1,150 metres.

Peak
Photo: WWasser, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The lies in the highest part of the Central Black Forest and, at 1,076.6 m above sea level, is a ridge-like subpeak of the Obereck.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include St. Martin’s Chapel, Furtwangen and Schönwald im Schwarzwald.

Hamlet
Photo: Neptuna, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Martin’s Chapel stands at an elevation of 1,085 metres above sea level at the upper end of the Katzensteig valley on the territory of Furtwangen just above the .

Photo: Andreas Schwarzkopf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small village in the in , . It was here that the Cuckoo clock was invented in 1737 and the village, naturally, exploits this historic claim to fame.

Village
Photo: Manuguf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the district of Schwarzwald-Baar in in .

Obereck

Latitude
48.11296° or 48° 6′ 47″ north
Longitude
8.11698° or 8° 7′ 1″ east
Elevation
1,177 metres (3,862 feet)
Open location code
8FWC4478+5Q
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4221194336
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
2861019
Wiki­data ID
Q2009394
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Ladin—“Obereck” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Obereck”
  • Dutch: “Obereck”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل اوبيريك”
  • German: “Obereck”
  • Ladin: “Obereck”
  • “Obereck”

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