Chestenberg
| Chestenberg | ||
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 Brunegg Castle on the Chestenberg |
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| height | 647 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Kanton Aargau | |
| Mountains | Chain Jura | |
| Dominance | 4.45 km → Gislifluh | |
| Notch height | 225 m ↓ Brunegg | |
| Coordinates | 656 892 / 252988 | |
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The Chestenberg (from Swiss German and Middle High German chesten ' sweet chestnut ') is a wooded range of hills in the Swiss canton of Aargau . It belongs to the Chain Jura , extends over a length of three kilometers in a west-east direction and reaches a height of 647 m above sea level. M. The villages of Brunegg , Möriken, Wildegg , Holderbank , Lupfig and Birr are at its foot . In the south, the Chestenberg is bordered by the Bünztal , in the west by the Aare valley and in the east by the Birrfeld . In the north it turns into the Scherzberg, at the foot of which Schinznach-Bad and Scherz are located.
There are two castles on the flanks of the Chestenberg: Wildegg Castle in the west and Brunegg Castle in the east . From the 11th to the 9th century BC A Bronze Age hill settlement existed on the Chestenberg .
It is planned under the Chestenberg the Chestenberg tunnel the railway line Zurich - Olten pass therethrough.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alfred Helfenstein: The Namengut Pilate territory. Keller, Luzern 1982, ISBN 3-85766-004-X , p. 36.
- ^ National map of Switzerland, sheet 1090, Swisstopo
- ↑ Information panel on the Bronze Age hilltop settlement
