Nordhelle (Ebbe Mountains)

The Nordhelle between Reblin and Valbert in the county of Märkischer Kreis in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia is the highest peak in the Ebbe Mountains and in Märkischer Kreise. At the summit is the Nordhelle Transmitter and a viewing tower, the Robert Kolb Tower.GeographyLocationThe Nordhelle rises in the western Sauerland roughly in the centre of the Ebbe highlands and within the Ebbe Mountain Nature Park – in the municipal area of Herscheid in the borough of Meinerzhagen. Its summit lies about 200 metres north of the boundary between Herscheid and its parish of Reblin to the north and Meinerzhagen with its quarter of Valbert in the south, this boundary reaching a maximum height of about. Höhe Whilst the summit area and the northern parts of the mountain belong to the municipality of Herscheid, the southern area belongs to the parish of Valbert. To the east-southeast of the Nordhelle is a subpeak, the Waldberg and its south-southwestern neighbour is the Große Hahn.Natural regionsThe Nordhelle belongs to the natural regional major unit group of Süderbergland (No. 33), the major unit of the South Sauerland Highland (3362), its subdivision, the Ebbe-Homert-Schwelle (3362.0–3), its sub-unit, the Ebbe Mountains (3362.0) and the natural region of Hohes Ebbe (3362.00).