Keilberg (Offenhausen)

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Wedge Mountain
Tower of the St. Ottmar and St. Ottilien chapel ruins

Tower of the St. Ottmar and St. Ottilien chapel ruins

height 547.2  m above sea level NN
location Bavaria , Germany
Mountains Franconian Alb
Coordinates 49 ° 26 '31 "  N , 11 ° 24' 23"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '31 "  N , 11 ° 24' 23"  E
Keilberg (Offenhausen) (Bavaria)
Keilberg (Offenhausen)
rock White Jura

The Keilberg is a mountain near Offenhausen in the Middle Franconian district of Nürnberger Land in Bavaria .

location

The 547.2  m above sea level. NHN high mountain is part of the Franconian Alb . It is located about 900 meters southwest of Offenhausen and forms the eastern edge of a Alb plateau .

description

The rocky mountain spur is designated as a natural monument . The summit area was the location of the lost castle of the same name Keilberg . Today there is the tower of the missing chapel ruins St. Ottmar and St. Ottilien . A parish fair is celebrated there every year in July . About 100 meters south there is a radio mast of a cell phone operator . On the north slope ( 49 ° 26 ′ 33.54 ″  N , 11 ° 24 ′ 23.58 ″  E ) there is the Keilbergbrunnen spring set in stone .

Klínovec is part of the 166.84  square kilometers comprehensive protected landscape Southern Jura Moritzberg and surroundings ( CDDA -No 396,095;. Designated in 2001).

The summit area was designated by the Bavarian State Office for the Preservation of Monuments (BLfD) as a ground monument of the medieval castle stables (D-5-6534-0107) and the St. Ottmar and St. Ottilien chapel (D-5-6534-0196).

From the eastern Hammerbachtal some pull deep into the Dogger notched hollow way up to the summit. The long-distance hiking trails Frankenalb-Panoramaweg ( Bar-red-vertical-on-yellow.jpg) and "Gottfried-Stammler-Weg" ( Point rot.png) lead over the Keilberg.

References and comments

  1. a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. BayernAtlas, Lage des Berg , accessed on July 6, 2020
  3. BayernAtlas, Geology , accessed on July 6, 2020
  4. Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation, Offenhausen Monument List , accessed on July 7, 2020

Web links

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