Waseberg
Coordinates: 53 ° 34 ' N , 9 ° 48' E
The Waseberg in the Hamburg district of Blankenese is 87 m above sea level. NN the third highest elevation in the Hanseatic city and part of a ridge on the north bank of the Elbe. It is located in the Bismarckstein park. The observation tower on the summit was built by Julius Richter in 1836 and was open to the public until the 1970s.
He gained fame above all through the steep ascent of the road of the same name that runs along the mountain as a special challenge in cycling races. The road is also used by bus line 48 , whose small buses in Blankenese are nicknamed mountain goats .
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The ascent to the Waseberg, from the banks of the Elbe up to the center of Blankenese, is one of the steepest in Hamburg with an altitude of 70 meters and an average gradient of over 10%. Its length is around 700 meters. The first 400 meters run over the Falkentaler Weg with an incline of 5%. The actual Waseberg then begins after a sharp right turn. These last 300 meters have an incline of 16%.
The Waseberg has therefore been run over several times every year since 1997 by the cycling world elite as part of the Cyclassics Hamburg , a German World Tour race .
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- ↑ Wolf Achim Wiegand: Hamburg-Blankenese in transition . Erfurt 2012, p. 84. ISBN 978-3-95400-086-9 .