Bergfried
Bergfried is a tower in Biebertal, Giessen, Hesse. Bergfried is situated nearby to Vetzberg Castle, as well as near the building Backhaus.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vetzberg Castle and Vetzberg.
Vetzberg
Peak
Photo: Cherubino, Public domain.
Vetzberg is a hill and extinct volcano of Hesse, Germany.
Gailscher Park
Park
Photo: Anntheres, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gailscher Park is situated 1 km southwest of Bergfried.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gießen and Wetzlarer Kreuz.
Gießen
Photo: Adam63, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gießen is a city in North Hesse. The city has about 88,000 inhabitants including 44,000 students, so its infrastructure, shopping and cultural offerings are pretty well adapted to students.
Wetzlarer Kreuz
Locality
Photo: KlausFoehl, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wetzlarer Kreuz is an Autobahn interchange in the city of Wetzlar in Hesse, Germany where the highways A45 and A480 meet. This junction is a stack interchange, which is the only fully built stack interchange in Germany. Wetzlarer Kreuz is situated 10 km west of Bergfried.
Bergfried
- Type: Tower
- Category: historic site
- Location: Biebertal, Giessen, Hesse, Germany, Central Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
50.62046° or 50° 37′ 14″ northLongitude
8.61699° or 8° 37′ 1″ eastInception
1200Height
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
9F2CJJC8+5QOpenStreetMap ID
way 797656693OpenStreetMap feature
historic=towerOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=tower
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