The Brilon Plateau () is a highland area in the county of Hochsauerlandkreis in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is surrounded by the Brilon Heights (Briloner Höhen), whose mountains reach a height of .
Geography Location The countryside of the Brilon Plateau and Brilon Heights includes the town of Brilon itself and several of its municipalities. Administratively it belongs largely to Hochsauerlandkreis, in the northeast, near Bleiwäsche, it is part of the county of Paderborn. It is roughly elliptical in shape; its longitudinal axis running from east-northeast to west-southwest.
To the north and northeast it transitions via the Alme Uplands into the Sintfeld. In the east and southeast it descends into the very deeply incised valley of the Hoppecke. In the south it is adjoined by the Sauerland and Upland (landscapes in the Rothaar Mountains); in the west by the Warstein Forest (the eastern part of the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park) and in the northwest by the narrow Haarstrang. In the north the terrain descends (on the far side of Sintfeld and Haarstrang) more or less gently into the Westphalian Bight towards the River Lippe. The plateau forms an island of farmland in the middle of forested mountains and hills.
Mountains and hills The mountains and hills of the Brilon Heights include the following (sorted by height in metres (m) above sea level (NHN): Borberg (670.2 m) – southwest of Brilon Bilstein (620.1 m) – northwest of Hoppecke Eisenberg (606.2 m) – südwest of Brilon Poppenberg (605.0 m) – south of Brilon Weiße Frau (562.5 m) – east of Rösenbeck Heimberg (536.4 m) – east of Brilon Totenkopf (502.6 m) – west of Marsberg Schaaken (500 m) – east-northeast of Brilon Schälhorn (499.1 m) – east of Scharfenberg Bulstern (482.3 m) – west of Wülfte Schweinskopf (481.4 m) – east-southeast of Bleiwäsche Schellberg (472 m)
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