Not directly as a watershed, but as a suitable location for a high tank of local water supply, the city of Auerbach uses the height of the god father mountain: 1954, the first elevated tank (500 m³) was built, 1996 next to the new (1,500 m³), the very appealing in In fact, the Auerbacher Gottvaterberg with its 550 meters is one of the highest elevations of the surrounding area; For comparison, the Upper Market Square in Auerbach (+ 431 m asl), the Pinzigberg (+ 541 m above sea level), the Spišský mountain at Pegnitz (+ 549 m asl), the Geißberg or Grünberg (+587 m above sea level) and the Gugelplatte are mentioned (+ 537 m NN) (both at Zogenreuth), the Ossinger at Königstein (+ 651 m NN), the Kütschenrain (+643 m NN) at Thurndorf (Markt Kirchenthumbach), the Rauhe Kulm (+682 m NN) at Neustadt am Kulm and the monastery Michelfeld (+ 406 m above sea level).
For Merkl the god father mountain, as this elevation is called since about 1690, is even more: "... the rainwater runs off this mountain towards morning, runs into the rivers and the Danube, and so against the Nidergang runs against the place, the In the Pegnitz and more consistently in Main and Rhine, which means that it is a high mountain in the place, and the prophet Gads his words are not unbillich to observirn (Note of the author: as much as to note): go up (scil Öberstberg) and build that the Plag stop. "Http://weber-rudolf.de/gottvaterberg.htm
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserscheiden_in_Deutschland

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Location: Auerbach i.d. OPf., Amberg-Sulzbach, Upper Palatinate, Bavaria, Germany

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