Gaisberg (Heidelberg)

View from the summit of King chair to the west up to the top of the Gaisberg. Law of the Neckar, the leaves at his feet the Odenwald and enters the Upper Rhine Valley.

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The Gaisberg - some can be found on official maps and the letters Geißberg - is a mountain on the territory of the city of Heidelberg, which sits to the west slope of the waste king chair and thus belongs to the southern Odenwald. It has a height of 375.6 m above sea level. NHN and surmounted so that the old town of Heidelberg in the Neckar valley at his feet to over 250 m. Its top is a bit from southeast to northwest elongated, flat tip, which is separated from the mountain floor of the King chair by an approximately 30 m below the saddle, the jump height. Not far of the highest point is the Gaisberg tower, which granted thanks to a constantly hewn clearing below outlook in western to north.

The mostly wooded Gaisberg rises above the lying on the edge of Upper Rhine Heidelberg West City and the western parts of the old town of Heidelberg. From many directions it can be reached on some steep paths. To the east of the mountain is at the end of the main rise in the road from Heidelberg to Gaiberg on the so-called log cabin a parking lot, from which he at a distance of only about 1.7 km by about 70 m slope is within walking distance, the path with the lowest differences in height ( round trip together). The shortest rise from the old town down in the valley begins at the city garden and leads to serpentine paths of together about 1.8 km in length also to the tower, albeit with multiple slope (one -way). In this way, you pass the point where the fortification Trutzbayer stood during the Bohemian- Palatinate war, off to pretty rough terrain on the slopes you can find also wreckage of the other attaching Trutzkaiser. From the birch bench at the upper northern downhill case, one has an excellent view over the Klingenteich away on the eastern old town and the counter-flowing Neckar, behind tree tops can be seen in the vegetation -free season, parts of the Heidelberg Castle. Further down this slope is just below the road from the old town to Speyererhof the giant stone, a large table rocks. Especially in the north-western and western slopes are between other deciduous trees many Esskastanienbäume, which gives the mountain in spring, seen from afar, from the Rhine valley, the stamp of a golden überstäubten green hood.

Under the Gaisberg and other northern foothills of the king chair Stocks runs in the southwest-northeast of about 2.5 km long Koenigsstuhl tunnel, the first tunnel in the Neckar Valley Railway from Heidelberg Main Station. Further north passes under his foot of the slope in a not quite 300 m long former railway tunnel leading to the east and the south track of the Friedrich -Ebert-Anlage, a southern ring road of the old city.

Gallery

  • The Gaisberg in Heidelberg
  • Viewing platform giant stone at the Gaisberg above the old town of Heidelberg. Photo overlooking the Holy Mountain and the district 's New Home
  • Historical view of the city of Heidelberg
  • Crag giant stone at the Heidelberg Gaisberg
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