View of the High Fichtel MountainsThe High Fichtel seen from the WaldsteinVies of the Fichtelsee and Mehlmeisel from the SchneebergThe transmission tower on the Schneeberg in Aug 2007
The High Fichtel Mountains[1] (German: Hohes Fichtelgebirge), or High Fichtel,[2] form a mountainous and heavily forested range consisting of several mountain chains in the shape of a horseshoe, the Fichtel Mountain Horseshoe (Fichtelgebirgs-Hufeisen), that rings the Selb-Wunsiedel Plateau.
As a natural region the High Fichtel Mountains are major unit 394 within the major unit group of the Thuringian-Franconian Highlands (39), that run from the Thuringian Forest to the Fichtel Mountains.[3][4] Since September 2010 there is a new system for classifying the natural regions of northeast Bavaria, whereby the natural region of the High Fichtel only covers the central mountain region of the Scheeberg, Ochsenkopf and Kösseine, whilst the Waldstein ridge, the Steinwald and lower parts of the horseshoe represent special subordinate natural regions of the Fichtel Mountains.[5]
^From Paleozoic to Quaternary: A Field Trip from the Franconian Alb to Bohemia edited by Ludwig Zöller. Retrieved 28 Jan 2014.
^Travel Munich by MobileReference. Retrieved 28 Jan 2014.
^E. Meynen and J. Schmithüsen: Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands – Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg 1953-1962 (9 issues in 8 books, updated (1960) 1:1,000,000 map with major units)
^Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation
^Karl Heinrich Vollrath: Viola in Nordostbayern (Seite 132-133)
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