The Holzstöcke is an elongated, densely forested, mountain range running from north to south in the German state of Baden-Württemberg. It is up to about Kartendienste des BfN and covers and area of 381.9 square kilometres.Emil Meynen, Josef Schmithüsen: Handbuch der naturräumlichen Gliederung Deutschlands. Bundesanstalt für Landeskunde, Remagen/Bad Godesberg 1953–1962 (9 issues in 8 books, 1:1,000,000 map with major landscape units, 1960). It is a large, terraced landscape that is part of the Iller-Lech Plateau in the Alpine Foreland of south Germany. It lies southwest of the city of Ulm in the counties of Alb-Donau-Kreis and Biberach in Upper Swabia and rises above the valley floors by about 75 metres.
Mountains and hills In the southern part of the Holzstöcke near Aitrach the hills gradually rise from heights of around in the north near Illerkirchberg up to the 700 metre contour line in the south where there is an area of unnamed mountains and hills.
The following is a list of the named high points in the Holzstöcke – sorted by height in metres (m) above Normalnull (NN): Runder Kopf (631.3 m), 1.3 km west-northwest of Erolzheim; with transmission tower and water tower Roter Berg (629.2 m), 1 km south-southwest of Erolzheim Frohberg (Kapellenberg; ca. 629 m), immediately south-southwest of Erolzheim; with Froberg Chapel and water tower Gehrn (Gern; 621.7 m), 2 km north-northwest of Berkheim Banberg (618.5 m), immediately west of Tannheim-Haldau Grafenberg (618.3 m), 2.5 km west-southwest of Kirchberg Totenkopf (615.6 m), 1 km east-southeast of Tannheim-Krimmel; with nearby Celtic schanze Weiherkopf (600.4 m), 1.3 km north-northwest of Erolzheim Schlossberg (568.4 m), 1.2 km southeast of Gutenzell-Hürbel-Niedernzell; with the site of Gutenzell Castle Location: Weißenberg (550.9 m), between Iller and Weihung near Illerrieden Location:
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BfN-Landschaftsteckbrief Holzstöcke – BfN (deutlich weniger ausführlich; etwas andere Grenzziehung, daher leicht erhöhte Fläche)