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thumb|Information board of Weichenwang Weichenwang is a mountain in the Swabian Jura in the town of Meßstetten, Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 1963 a radome of the Bundeswehr has been there, but its use as a military site is considerably older. Before the radome was built there had been a radio listening-post there.

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Country
Germany
Located in
Meßstetten
Continent
Europe
Elevation
988.0
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mountain range
Swabian Jura
Commons category
Weichenwang
name
Weichenwang
topographic isolation
8.72
topographic prominence
116
parent peak
Plettenberg
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8 sections
Contents
  • Legends
  • Wangen
  • Antiquities
  • Hemmadhäddler
  • Schimmelreiter's secret love-affair
  • Pyrene?
  • Web
  • References

thumb|Information board of Weichenwang Weichenwang is a mountain in the Swabian Jura in the town of Meßstetten, Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Since 1963 a radome of the Bundeswehr has been there, but its use as a military site is considerably older. Before the radome was built there had been a radio listening-post there.

==Legends== ===Wangen=== Places now lost are remembered in legend. A town called "Wangen" between Hossingen and Meßstetten has now disappeared. An as-yet undiscovered Celtic town of Pyrene was mentioned in ancient sources. The identification of Pyrene would bring special honor to researchers, since it is the oldest town in the Upper Danube region known from written sources. In 2010 more vague evidence occurs in old blood in the region of the Upper Danube: a virus of Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, CCHF which mostly led to death in earlier times. In Southern Germany Physalis food had been cultivated . The locality "Neu-Wangenhausen" (Nüwenghausen), mentioned in a document from 1477, could be no other place in the district.

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