What is "seekopf"

The Seekopf is a mountain on the main chain of the Northern Black Forest in Germany between the Upper Rhine Plain and the Murg valley. It is and lies on the boundary of the counties of Ortenaukreis and Freudenstadt in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

The mountain ridge, the upper area of which is formed of bunter sandstone, belongs to the natural region known as Grindenschwarzwald and Enzhöhen. The Black Forest High Road (B 500) runs along its western flank and, below the eastern mountainside, is a tarn, the Wildsee. The West Way runs over the mountain leading to Ruhestein, 1.5 kilometres to the southwest. The Seekopf lies within the Black Forest National Park, established in 2014.

On the summit plateau is the grave of Julius Euting, a well-known orientalist and co-founder of the Vosges Club.

The Seekopf is a mountain, , near Forbach in the Northern Black Forest between the Badener Höhe and the Schwarzenbach Reservoir. Over the Seekopf runs the West Way, the best known hiking trail in the Black Forest. On the very thinly wooded summit there is a monument to Phillipp Bussemer, a member of the Black Forest Club who died in 1918.

On the eastern flank of the mountain in a 170-metre-deep cirque is a lake, the Herrenwieser See. West of the Seekopf on the other side of the saddle, which forms the transition to the Badener Höhe, is the Black Forest National Park which was established in 2014.

Seekopf is German for “lake head” or “lake peak” and may refer to the following mountains:

Austria

• Nördlicher and Südlicher Seekopf (3,061 and ca. 3,053 m), in the Verwall Group, Tyrol
• Hinterer, Mittlerer and Vorderer Seekopf (2,718, 2,702 and 2,685 m resp.), in the Lechtal Alps, Tyrol
• Seekopf (Rätikon) (2,698 m), a summit above the Lünersee lake, Vorarlberg
• Wolayer Seekopf (2,554 m), a summit in the Carnic Alps
• Seekopf (Kitzbühel Alps) (2,189 m), in the Kitzbühel Alps, Tyrol
• Seekopf (Allgäu Alps) (2,039 m), southwest of the Großer Widderstein in the Allgäu Alps, Vorarlberg

Germany

• Kleiner Seekopf (2,095 m), in the Daumen Group the Allgäu Alps, Bavaria
• Großer Seekopf (2,084 m), in the Daumen Group the Allgäu Alps, Bavaria
• Seekopf (Seebach) (1,055 m), in the Northern Black Forest southeast of the Hornisgrinde, Baden-Württemberg
• Seekopf (Forbach) (1,001 m), in the Northern Black Forest northeast of the Hornisgrinde, Baden-Württemberg

Antarctica

• Seekopf (Antarctica) (1,300 m), mountain at the northeastern end of the Gruber Mountains

also

• Seekopf (Lunz), cadastral municipality of Lunz am See, Lower Austria

See also:

• Seeköpfle