Dammersfeld Ridge

The Dammersfeld Ridge (German: Dammersfeldrücken) is a low mountain chain in the High Rhön in Germany, which begins on a line from Bischofsheim to Gersfeld and runs in a southwesterly direction to Riedenberg – Werberg – Maria Ehrenberg.

The majority of this area today is a military out-of-bounds area, the Wildflecken Training Area.

Its highest point is the Dammersfeldkuppe, the second-highest mountain in the Rhön.

The Bavarian-Hessian state border runs along the crest of the mountain chain.

The Dammersfeld Ridge was first defined in 1968 as a natural region as part of the natural regional classification of Germany at a map scale of 1:200,000 (Sheet 140 Schweinfurt), and it is grouped as follows:[1]