Rechberg (mountain)

It has a roughly isosceles ground plan with the base in the east, where the higher Kirchberg with an open plateau of 1.5-2 hectares rises up to 708.1 m above sea level, while the lower spur Schlossberg at the pointed corner in the west after a not very deep saddle reaches only a height of 644.2 m. The larger part of the slopes is forested.

Coming from the west, the watershed between the river systems of Rems in the north and Fils in the south runs over the spur to the high plateau and bends here southwards.

In the south the Krumm drains to the Fils, in the east the Rechbach and in the northeast the Tobelbach over the Waldstetter Bach to the Rems and in the remaining north the Tiefenbach with its source arms Felbenbach and Gießbach further west and down into it.

Today, the baroque Pilgrimage Church of St. Maria, built in 1686/88 by Count Bernhard Bero von Rechberg, stands in the middle of the open summit plateau.

Therefore, today they stand prominently above their immediate surroundings resulting in a inverted relief in the form of the three Upper Jurassic mountains Hohenrechberg, Stuifen and Hohenstaufen.