Totnansberg, Mountain summit in the Black Mountains, Bavaria, Germany

Totnansberg is the highest peak of the Black Mountains, a subunit of the Rhön, and takes the form of a broad, flat dome. To the north and south it slopes gently toward the Schwarzenberg and Erlenberg, while its steepest drop is on the eastern side, flattening only near Gefäll at 374 m above sea level. Rottone and Lower Muschelkalk lie beneath a basalt summit capped with loam.

The summit is a basalt-capped knoll of the Black Mountains, whose base is made of red clay and marl overlain by Lower Muschelkalk. Its name is linked by legend to Totnan, a companion of the missionary Kilian. Since 1993 the mountain has lain within the Schwarze Berge nature reserve, created to counter afforestation with conifers.

The name Totnansberg is linked by legend to Totnan, a companion of the missionary Kilian. A second legend explains the variant Totmannsberg: a man lost in a snowstorm in the Black Mountains was found dead the following spring hanging in a tall tree on the mountain.

The summit lies within the Schwarze Berge nature reserve, established in 1993 to counter conifer afforestation. The eastern slope, the steepest, drops toward Gefäll at 374 m above sea level. A youth tent site of the Bad Kissingen district, holding 80 people, sits on that slope, and a mobile phone mast stands on the mountain.

The name Totmannsberg comes from a legend: a man lost in a snowstorm in the Black Mountains crouched by a bush and was found dead the next spring hanging in a tall tree on the mountain. The other name refers to Totnan, companion of Kilian.