Turmberg

View of the tower from the west mountain

The tower hill (256 m above sea level. NHN, formerly Hohenberg ) is the local mountain of the Karlsruhe district Durlach. He is a popular destination and - on a clear day - an estimated viewpoint overlooking the Rhine valley about 140 m below, the Palatinate Forest and the Alsace. On the Turmberg leads the Tower Mountain Railway, a funicular railway from 1888.

Geography

The tower is located in the mountain border region of Kraichgau to the Black Forest. In the natural spatial structure it is attributed to the Kraichgau. There are also representations, see him as northern Black Forest height. Its summit is not typical of the Black Forest, from limestone.

Development

Not far from the ruins located on the summit plateau, built in 1953 Sports School Schoeneck the Baden Football Association, in which, inter alia, the World Cup Self prepared from 1954 under Sepp Herberger to the World Cup.

Located on Tower Mountain neighborhood include with their views of the Rhine valley to the popular celebrities and residential areas of Karlsruhe.

Tower Hill Climb

The tower mountain race has been held since 2000 and is used by the Karlsruhe Radkurieren ( the soffi eV ) aligned. The track leads over a route length of approximately 1800 meters from the foot of Tower Hill in Karlsruhe Durlach ( corner Grötzinger road, Nesslerstraße ) the tower hill to the mountain station of the cable car tower. Here, about 120 meters of altitude must be overcome at an average gradient of 6.7%. The race is divided into a mountain time trial and one or two elimination race.