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FELDBERGRING (FELDBERGRENNEN)
Description Street circuit used for car races (1950) and motorcycle races (1950-1954). I have no more news.
Location Taunus
HE - Hessen - 1949÷1990: BRD
Location On Taunus hills, few km North West of Frankfurt am Main (Hessen)
Latitude - Longitude + 50°14'37"     + 8°26'45"
50.243611     8.445833
UTM Coordinates X = 460485.629  -  Y = 5565863.968  -  Zone 32U
Aerial photo / Map (*) Aerial photo / Map (*) OpenStreetMap  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Google Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Bing Maps  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Flash Earth  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) Wikimapia  -   Aerial photo / Map (*) GoYellow.de
Altitude AMSL 940 m - 3084 ft
Inauguration 1950
Closing 1954
Designer  
Sources and links (Translation) (**)
(1) English mail, note Mails by Martin Berrang dated November 10th and 16th 2005
(2) German www.feldbergrennen.de
(3) English www.milermeter.com/?r=3001425Track layout

(*) NOTE: a complete and detailed view of the circuit can be found (if available) on Street View by Google Maps and/or Bird's Eye and 3D views by Bing Maps for Enterprise (former Microsoft Virtual Earth): both can be reached using their own link in Aerial photo / Map cell.

(**) For on-line not-English speaking sources, click on each small flag and you open the corresponding Google Translator page with automatic translation.

Feldbergring (Feldbergrennen)
Description  
Years 1950÷1954
Direction Anticlockwise   Anticlockwise
Progetto Proposal NO
No longer operational YES
Car Circuit YES
Motorbike circuit YES
Type Road course
Inauguration 1950
Closing 1954
Last update of this page September 10th 2007
Info last update  
Designer  
Distinctive points  
length 11576  m 37979  ft 7.193  mi   (1)
length 11466  m 37618  ft 7.125  mi Calculated from aerial photo (*) (3)
Difference in level 365  m 1198  ft 0.227  mi   (1)

Feldbergring (Feldbergrennen)

Feldbergring (Feldbergrennen)

Due to technical problems, temporarily it’s no longer possible to see the circuits on Google Maps embedded in the current page.
This feature will be restored as soon as I figure out how to do (any help would be appreciated!)

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ALTITUDE
Name Altitude a.s.l.
m ft.
Fahrer-Lager6502133
Oberreifenberg6262054
Salzgrund  
Weilquelle5751886
Weilsberg6602165
Rotes Kreutz6882257
Kleiner Feldberg8012628
Springbrett8502789
Großer Feldberg8802887
Teufelsquarter8202690
Stockborn9403084
Sandplacken6802231
Grätenbach6802231

Updates
Date Track layout Years Description by Map by Thanks to Note
July 14th 2009   1950÷1954 Guido de Carli Peer Risch Peer Risch Update Description with map
November 25th 2005   1950÷1954 Guido de Carli Guido de Carli Martin Berrang Update Description with map
November 12th 2005   1950÷1954 Guido de Carli   Martin Berrang New Description
Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list
 
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