Hillfort of Otzenhausen, Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park

Name: Hillfort of Otzenhausen
Address: Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park, Germany

#1 among attractions in Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park

Top attraction, City wall

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Hillfort of Otzenhausen, Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park

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The Celtic hill fort of Otzenhausen is one of the biggest fortifications the Celts ever constructed. It was built by Gauls of the Treveri tribe, who lived in the region north of the fort. The fort is located on top of the Dollberg, a hill near Otzenhausen in Germany, about 695 m above sea level. The only visible remains are two circular earth ramparts, covered with stones. ()

Local name: Ringwall von Otzenhausen Coordinates: 49°37'19"N, 7°0'1"E

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Hillfort of Otzenhausen – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Flugausstellung Peter Junior, Sternwarte Peterberg, feuerwehr erlebnis museum, Dollberg.

4.7 miNW
Museum, Specialty museum
Flugausstellung Peter Junior, Hermeskeil
121 min walk • The Flugausstellung Peter Junior, previously the Flugausstellung Hermeskeil, is a private aviation museum in the town of Hermeskeil in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. The museum opened in July 1973 in several buildings with a covered area of over 3,600 square meters.
3.5 miS
Observatories and planetariums
Sternwarte Peterberg, Nonnweiler
90 min walk • Sternwarte Peterberg is a club observatory in Saarland, Germany. Founded in 1977, it has 160 members as of 2016.
3.4 miNW
Museum
feuerwehr erlebnis museum, Hermeskeil
88 min walk • The Rhineland-Palatinate Fire Brigade Museum Hermeskeil, which also goes by its own name "feuerwehr erlebnis museum", is a museum designed as an interactive experience exhibition on the topics of fire and fire...
1 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Dollberg, Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park
26 min walk • The Dollberg is a mountain in the Dollberge range in central Germany and the highest point in the state of Saarland. It is 695.4 m above sea level and lies within the Schwarzwälder Hochwald on the boundary between the counties of Trier-Saarburg and St.
3.9 miNW
Museum
Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil, Hermeskeil
101 min walk • Bahnbetriebswerk Hermeskeil is a small, Prussian locomotive depot at Hermeskeil, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany that dates from 1888. Until 1903, it was called a Maschinenstation.
3.8 miNE
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Friedrichskopf, Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park
97 min walk • The Friedrichskopf near Brücken in the county of Birkenfeld in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is 707.4 m above sea level and the highest mountain in the Dollberge, a small range in the Schwarzwälder Hochwald region of the Hunsrück mountains.
2.4 miNE
Natural feature
Dollberge, Hermeskeil
63 min walk • The Dollberge are a small mountain range in the northern Saarland and the adjoining part of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany. They form a southeastern element of the Schwarzwälder Hochwald, a region in the Hunsrück mountains, and are up to 707.4 m above sea level.
5 miSE
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Bostalsee
129 min walk • The Bostalsee is a reservoir in the municipality of Nohfelden in the northern Saarland. It was created in 1979. The dam has a length of 500 metres. The lake is almost exclusively used for recreation.
1.7 miSW
Church
St. Hubertus
43 min walk • The church of St. Hubertus - sometimes called Hochwalddom because of its size as well as its location in the Hochwald forest - is a Catholic parish church in Nonnweiler in the Saarland.
3.2 miNE
49°39'16"N • 7°3'0"E
Tirolerstein, Hunsrück-Hochwald National Park
81 min walk • Memorial
5.2 miSE
National park
Bostalsee
133 min walk • The Bostalsee is a reservoir in the municipality of Nohfelden in the northern Saarland. It was created in 1979. The dam has a length of 500 metres. The lake is almost exclusively used for recreation.