Alacher height
The Alacher Höhe is a plateau west of Erfurt in the Thuringian Basin .
Today, the Alacher Höhe is not forested and falls moderately steeply to the east to the Gera , to the north to the valley of the Weißbach and to the south to the valley of the Schmiraer Bach. To the west of Alacher height which rises Nesse , bringing the level part of the Elbe - Weser - watershed is. The highest point of the Alacher Höhe is 328.8 m above sea level. NN and thus about 150 meters above the valley floor of the adjacent Geratal. On the edge and on the Alacher Höhe are the villages of Alach , Schaderode , Salomonsborn , Marbach and Bindersleben , all of which belong to Erfurt. Even the Erfurt airport is located on the edge of Alacher height. In the far south-west its foothills extend into the old town of Erfurt with the Petersberg and the Domberg .
The Alacher Höhe was also of strategic importance. In the area of today's airfield there was a fortification known as the Schwedenschanze from the time of the Thirty Years War . At Salomonsborn, the name of the corridor and street, Bei der Windmühle, occupies such a mill.
The route section of the federal highway 71 running northwest around Erfurt crosses the Alacher Höhe in a wide arc to the Bindersleben cross .
Coordinates: 51 ° 0 '0.5 " N , 10 ° 55' 41.2" E