Volkmarsberg
Sign in to savethumb|Volkmarsberg Tower and shelter The Volkmarsberg is a mountain in the Swabian Alb, south of Aalen in the Ostalbkreis, Germany, with an altitude of . It rises at the edge of the town of Oberkochen, from where there is a path to the summit.
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- hill
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Oberkochen
- Elevation
- 743.6
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- mountain range
- Swabian Jura
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- Volkmarsberg
- topographic isolation
- 8.33
- topographic prominence
- 62
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thumb|Volkmarsberg Tower and shelter The Volkmarsberg is a mountain in the Swabian Alb, south of Aalen in the Ostalbkreis, Germany, with an altitude of . It rises at the edge of the town of Oberkochen, from where there is a path to the summit.
On the summit plateau there is a shelter as well as the Volkmarsberg tower, a stone observation tower built in 1930, from which one has a far-reaching view over the entire Ostalbkreis. In rare temperature inversion conditions the distant Zugspitze can be seen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Volkmarsberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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