Red Moor (Rhön)

[3] As a result of centuries of peat extraction, which lasted until the 1980s, only an area of about five hectares is left as a core zone.

The moor is bounded by the surrounding mountains which, running clockwise, are the Mathesberg (831.8 m) to the north, the Ottilienstein (846.4 m) to the northeast, the Heidelstein (925.7 m) to the east, the Kesselstein (799.2 m) to the south, the Mostberg (807.4 m) to the west and the Feldberg (815.2 m) to the northwest.

It is one of the oldest and largest nature reserves in Hesse and lies between the Wasserkuppe and the Heidelstein on the gently rolling saddle of the High Rhön.

There are other smaller wetlands with thinner layers of peat in the nature reserve formed around three hollows, each the source of a stream.

It flows south into the Schwarzbach, which discharges into the Brend at Bischofsheim its waters making their way via the Franconian Saale to the drainage basin of the Rhine.

[7] The main entry to the Red Moor Cross Country Skiing Centre is also from this car park.