The Adelegg is a forested, mountain range, up to and 112 km² in area, which is part of the northern foothills of the Alps, within the Westallgäu in the south German districts of Ravensburg and Oberallgäu. Geography Location The Adelegg forms the northernmost foothills of the Allgäu Alps in the southeastern part of the Bavarian Alps and extend a long way out into the Alpine Foreland. They lie between the Untere Argen near Isny to the southwest and west, and Leutkirch to the northwest (both in the Baden-Württemberg district of Ravensburg), and between Altusried to the northeast, Wiggensbach to the east, Buchenberg to the southeast and the Wengener Argen near Weitnau to the south (all in the Bavarian district of Oberallgäu). The name Adelegg is generally only used for that part of the range located in Württemberg, but the landscape unit of the same name also includes the Hohentanne Forest to the north-northeast, the Kürnach Forest to the northeast and the Buchenberg Forest to the east. To the south it is adjoined by the mountain ridge of Sonneck on the far side of the Wengener Argen, which is not however part of the Adelegg landscape unit. Mountains The highest mountain in the Adelegg range is the Schwarzer Grat, whose summit is located on Württemberg soil, just a few metres northwest of the Bavarian border, in the province of Tübingen. This peak and other mountains and hills, together with their foothills within the Adelegg range, and the landscape unit of Adelegg - which is higher in places –are sorted below by height in metres (m) above sea level (NN); (BW = Baden-Württemberg; BV = Bavaria): Ursersberg (ca. 1,129 m), 1.4 km northwest of Buchenberg-Eschach, BV, highest mountain in the Kürnach Forest Hohenkapf (ca. 1,121.1 m), 2.3 km southwest of Buchenberg-Eschach, BV, highest mountain of the Buchenberg Forest Schwarzer Grat (1,118.0 m), 2.3 km north-northwest of Weitnau-Wengen, BW, highest mountain of the Adelegg unnamed summit (ca. 960 m), 2.2 km west-southwest of Kimratshofen-Walzlings, BV, highest of the Hohentanne Forest Also only in the Adelegg range: Rote Fluh (1,090.0 m), 1 km northeast of the Schwarzer Grat, BW, Adelegg Schönbühl (1,074.8 m), 400 m north-northwest of the Schwarzer Grat, BW, Adelegg Raggenhorn (1,056.2 m), 1.4 km north-northwest of Weitnau-Wengen, BW und BV, Adelegg Hohkopf (1,035.2 m), 2.3 km east-southeast of Isny-Ratzenhofen, BW, Adelegg Wegmannshöhe (1,031.8 m), 2.4 km east of Isny-Ratzenhofen, BW, Adelegg