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The Betzenberg () is a 285-metre-high hill in the German city of
The Betzenberg () is a 285-metre-high hill in the German city of Kaiserslautern
Kaiserslautern (; ) is a town in southwest Germany, located in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate at the edge of the Palatinate Forest. The historic centre dates to the 9th century. It is from Paris, from Frankfurt am Main, 666 kilometers (414 m ...
. It rises about 50 metres above the city and gives its name to the quarter in which it stands. It was well known because it also gave its name to what is now the Fritz Walter Stadium (formerly the Betzenberg Stadium or, colloquially, the ''Betze'').
Hill
The Betzenberg lies south ofKaiserslautern Central Station
Kaiserslautern Hauptbahnhof is a through-railway station, station in the German city of Kaiserslautern and one of seven stations in the city. It is a stop on the Rhine-Neckar S-Bahn and Deutsche Bahn’s Intercity-Express network and a hub for al ...
and the main railway axis from Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen, officially Ludwigshafen am Rhein (; meaning "Ludwig I of Bavaria, Ludwig's Port upon the Rhine"; Palatine German dialects, Palatine German: ''Ludwichshafe''), is a List of cities and towns in Germany, city in the German state of Rh ...
to Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken (; Rhenish Franconian: ''Sabrigge'' ; ; ; ; ) is the capital and largest List of cities and towns in Germany, city of the state of Saarland, Germany. Saarbrücken has 181,959 inhabitants and is Saarland's administrative, commerci ...
. The southern end of the Betzenberg transitions into the Palatine Forest
The Palatinate Forest (; ), sometimes also called the Palatine Forest, is a low-mountain region in southwestern Germany, located in the Palatinate in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The forest is a designated nature park () covering 1,771&n ...
.
City quarter
Kaiserlautern's Betzenberg quarter is fairly young. It was laid out in 1967; only the built-up area below and around the Fritz Walter Stadium is older. In order to create the district, parts of the former Palatinate Forestprotected landscape
IUCN protected area categories, or IUCN protected area management categories, are categories used to classify protected areas in a system developed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
The enlisting of such areas is part ...
that were not part of the Palatine Forest Nature Park (both placed under conservation orders in 1967) were incorporated.
Sights
* Fritz Walter Stadium * Betzenberg Wildlife Park * Bremerhof, destination on the southern edge of the district *Humberg Tower
The Humberg Tower is an observation tower on the Humberg hill, 425 metres (1,400 feet) high, to the south of the city of Kaiserslautern in southwest Germany.
The idea of building a tower on the Humberg (already in those days a favourite hill amo ...
, an observation tower on the northern edge of the Palatine Forest Nature Park
References
{{Authority control Mountains and hills of the Palatinate Forest Kaiserslautern Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate