Schneifel

Coordinates: 50°15′57″N 6°22′29″E / 50.2659°N 6.3748°E / 50.2659; 6.3748
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Not to be confused with Schnee Eifel or Battle of the Schnee Eifel.
The rather unassuming, long ridge of the Schneifel viewed from the Weißer Stein

The Schneifel is a range of low mountains, up to 699.1 m above 

Brandscheid near Prüm in a northeasterly direction to Ormont
. The name Schneifel has nothing to do with the
Schnee-Eifel
("Snow Eifel") was born, albeit referring to a larger area.

Winters in this low mountainous region are unusually cold and snowy for western and parts of central Europe and snow lies here for longer than anywhere else in the Eifel. As a result, the winter sports season is longer here than in the surrounding region. The highest point of the Schneifel is the 699.1-metre-high Schwarze Mann ("Black Man"), which is also the third highest point of the Eifel range after the Hohe Acht and the Erresberg (Ernstberg). There is a winter sports area on the Schwarze Mann with the same name.

The Schneifel is covered along its entire length by the ruins of bunkers which formed part of the Siegfried Line.

On the heights of the Schneifel is the former US radar station, Prüm Air Station, and the Schnee Eifel transmission tower for

VHF
which, with a height of 224 m is clearly visible for miles.

References

  1. ^ Map service of the Landscape Information System of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Office (Naturschutzverwaltung Rheinland-Pfalz)

50°15′57″N 6°22′29″E / 50.2659°N 6.3748°E / 50.2659; 6.3748


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