Kondelwald

Kondelwald
Kondelwald
	Kondelwald
Highest point
Peak	Reudelheck
Elevation	477.5 m above NHN
Geography
State(s)	between Bengel and Bad Bertrich; counties of Bernkastel-Wittlich and Cochem-Zell, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Range coordinates	50°02′46″N 7°02′30″E / 50.046139°N 7.041722°E
Parent range	Moselle Eifel (East Eifel)

The Kondelwald, also known as the Kondel, is a forest, about 2,500 hectares in area and up to 477.5 m above sea level (NHN),^[1] that forms part of the Moselle Eifel. It lies within the counties of Bernkastel-Wittlich and Cochem-Zell in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It used to belong to the imperial Carolingian estate of Kröver Reich.

Geography

The Kondelwald is located east-northeast of Wittlich between the villages of Bengel on the Moselle tributary of Alf in the south and Bad Bertrich on the Alf tributary of Üßbach in the north. Its highest point lies between Bengel and the Hontheim village of Bonsbeuren about 750 metres as the crow flies west of the Waidmannsheil hunting lodge on the Reudelheck hill, near the road from Bengel to Bonsbeuren (Kreisstraßen 35 and 9). Near this point is a 77 metre high transmission tower (50°2′45.9″N 7°2′27.8″E / 50.046083°N 7.041056°E / 50.046083; 7.041056). To the south, at Bengel, is Springiersbach Abbey.

The Kondelwald forms the subunit of Kondelwald (270.2) in the natural regional major unit group of East Eifel (No. 27) and major unit Moselle Eifel (270).