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| KASSEL-WILHELMSHÖHE / HERKULES BERGRENNEN / HERKULES BERGPREIS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Not to be confused with | Kassel Calden Flughafenrennen | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Description | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Location | Kassel HE - Hessen - 1949÷1990: BRD | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Latitude - Longitude | + 51°18'32" + 9°24'59" 51.308889 9.416389 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| UTM Coordinates | X = 529023.366 - Y = 5684257.741 - Zone 32U | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Aerial photo / Map (*) |  OpenStreetMap - Google Maps - Bing Maps - Flash Earth - Wikimapia - GoYellow.de | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Altitude AMSL | 300 m - 984 ft | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sources and links (Translation) (**) |
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| Herkules Bergrennen | |||||
| Description | Map (used for drawing my one here) and lenght data reported by Motor Racing Circuits Database are very different, but I don’t know what are correct and what are wrong | ||||
| Years | 1923÷1927, 1951÷1954 | ||||
| Direction | |||||
 Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Hillclimb | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 6th 2011 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 2384 m | 7823 ft | 1.482 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (1) |
| length | 5400 m | 17717 ft | 3.355 mi | Editions 1923?÷1924 | |
| length | 4500 m | 14764 ft | 2.796 mi | Editions 1926?-1927 | |
| length | 4800 m | 15748 ft | 2.983 mi | Edition 1925 | |
| Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe | |||||
| Description | |||||
| Years | 195x | ||||
| Direction |  Clockwise | ||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | YES | ||||
| Car Circuit | |||||
| Motorbike circuit | |||||
| Type | Road course | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | February 24th 2008 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | Kleine Schleife - Große Schleife - Spitzkehre - Burgfeld-Kurve - Wall-Kurve - Löwenburg - Steinhöfer Wasserfall - Sprungbrett - Aquädukt - Gefällstrecke | ||||
| length | 4336 m | 14226 ft | 2.694 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (2) |
| Herkules Bergpreis | |||||
| Description | Track layout used surelòy in 2011, I don’t know if it is the same used also from 2005 | ||||
| Years | 2005?÷2011÷... | ||||
| Direction | |||||
| Proposal |
NO | ||||
| No longer operational | |||||
| Car Circuit | YES | ||||
| Motorbike circuit | YES | ||||
| Type | Historical parade | ||||
| Inauguration | |||||
| Closing | |||||
| Last update of this page | June 7th 2011 | ||||
| Info last update | |||||
| Designer | |||||
| Distinctive points | |||||
| length | 4500 m | 14764 ft | 2.796 mi | (5) | |
| length | 3652 m | 11981 ft | 2.269 mi | Calculated from aerial photo (*) | (3) |
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe / Herkules Bergrennen / Herkules Bergpreis
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!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Herkules Bergrennen (1923÷1927, 1951÷1954) - layout to be confirmed
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!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe 195x
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!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
Herkules Bergpreis 2011 (also from 2005?)
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!)
See this track layout with Google Earth
- milermeter.com
(milermeter.com can be used in your browser, without installing anything; Google Earth is a program that must be installed in your computer)
(Map shown here above can show at the same time all eventual layouts drawn. If you want to see only some of them, please go to Google Maps or Google Earth, by clicking on its own link)
| Updates | |||||||
| Date | Track layout | Years | Description by | Map by | Thanks to | Note | |
| June 7th 2011 | Herkules Bergpreis | 2005?÷2011÷... | Guido de Carli | Guido de Carli | Martin Berrang | Update | Description with map |
| February 24th 2008 | Kassel-Wilhelmshöhe | 195x | Guido de Carli | Lorenzo Tommasi | New | Description with map | |
| Not all eventual updates issued in last years are already visible in this list | |||||||
