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Hochblauen
The Hochblauen as seen from Badenweiler on an old postcard (ca. Badenweiler, a Health resort and spa of the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, historically in the Markgräflerland 1900)
Hochblauen Location within Germany
Elevation	1,165 metres (3,822 ft)
Location	Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Range	Black Forest
Prominence	813 m (2,667 ft)
Coordinates	47°46′39″N 07°42′4″E / 47.7775, 7.70111^[1]
Easiest route	Drive K160 (Kandertalstraße) through Marzell or L140 through Friedrichsheim
Translation	high blue (German)

The Hochblauen is a 1165 meter high mountain in the southern Black Forest. In topography a summit is a point on a surface which is higher in Elevation than all points immediately adjacent to Baden-Württemberg is one of the 16 states ( Bundesländer) of the Federal Republic of Germany. Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. A mountain range is a chain of Mountains bordered by highlands or separated from other mountains by passes or valleys For the suburb of Adelaide, please see Black Forest South Australia; for the CDP in Colorado, please see Black Forest Colorado. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. A climbing route is a path by which a climber reaches the top of a Mountain, rock or ice wall Malsburg-Marzell is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. The German language (de ''Deutsch'') is a West Germanic language and one of the world's major languages. For the suburb of Adelaide, please see Black Forest South Australia; for the CDP in Colorado, please see Black Forest Colorado. The peak lies within the municipalities of Schliengen and Malsburg-Marzell in Landkreis Lörrach and the community of Badenweiler in Landkreis Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald. Schliengen is a town in southwestern Germany in the state of Baden-Württemberg, in the Kreis (district of Lörrach. Malsburg-Marzell is a town in the district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Lörrach is a Kreis ( District) in the south-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Badenweiler, a Health resort and spa of the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald district of Baden-Württemberg, Germany, historically in the Markgräflerland Germany is divided into 413 administrative districts; these consist of 301 rural districts ( Landkreise) listed fully here and 112 urban districts ( Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is an ideal viewpoint with views of the Black Forest, Vosges, Jura Mountains, and the Alps. The Vosges (voːʒ or Vosges Mountains are a Mountain range in eastern France, stretching along the west side of the Rhine valley The Jura Mountains are a small Mountain range located north of the Alps, separating the Rhine and Rhone rivers and forming part of

View northwest from the Hochblauen over the Rhine valley

Variation A of the "Westweg", a long distance trail maintained by the Schwarzwaldverein, leads over the Blauen^[2]. The Upper Rhine (Oberrhein is the part of the Rhine that flows northbound after Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine rift, and then westward The Westweg, (West Trail is a long-distance hiking trail running north-south through the Black Forest from Pforzheim to Basel. The Schwarzwaldverein, or Black Forest Association was founded in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany in 1864, making it the oldest German Hiking At the top there is an inn with a hotel^[3].

On the Blauen stands a 21 Meter high metal lattice observation tower, built in 1895 by the Schwarzwaldverein. An observation tower is a structure used to view events from a long distance and to create a full 360 degree range of vision ^[4]

Southeast of the Hochblauen is the Stockberg castle ruins, the highest (in elevation) castle in Baden-Württemburg^[5].

Transmission Tower

Radio Tower

Also at the peak stands a 93 meter tall Deutsche Telekom VHF and microwave radio relay tower. Radio masts and towers are typically tall structures designed Deutsche Telekom AG (,) ( English translation German Telecom) (abbreviated DTAG) is a Telecommunications company headquartered in Very high frequency (VHF is the Radio frequency range from 30 MHz to 300 MHz. Microwave radio relay is a technology for transmitting digital and analog signals, such as long-distance Telephone calls and the relay of The tower is a reinforced concrete Typenturm, built in 1985. Reinforced concrete is Concrete in which reinforcement bars (" Rebars quot or fibers have been incorporated to strengthen a material that would otherwise be A Typenturm ( German for standard tower) is a standardised Telecommunications tower built of Reinforced concrete the former German ^[6] The following radio stations are broadcast from this tower: SWR1 Baden-Württemberg (89. 2 FM/8. 4 kW), SWR2 (92. 6 FM/8. 4 kW), SWR3 (97. 0 FM/8,4kW), Deutschlandfunk (105. Deutschlandfunk 1 FM/10 kW), Radio Regenbogen (101. 1 FM/8,4 kW) und baden. fm (106. 0 FM/8,4 kW). The tower is also used by the amateur radio repeater DB0YE. A repeater is an electronic device that receives a signal and Retransmits it at a higher level and/or higher power or onto the other side of an obstruction ^[7]

The tower serves mainly the southern Upper Rhine valley as well as a large portion of the Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald and Lörrach rural districts. The Upper Rhine (Oberrhein is the part of the Rhine that flows northbound after Basel, Switzerland, along the Rhine rift, and then westward Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald is a Kreis ( District) in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Lörrach is a Kreis ( District) in the south-west of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Germany is divided into 413 administrative districts; these consist of 301 rural districts ( Landkreise) listed fully here and 112 urban districts ( The stations transmitted from the Blauen are also easily received in northwestern Switzerland. Switzerland (English pronunciation; Schweiz Swiss German: Schwyz or Schwiiz Suisse Svizzera Svizra officially the Swiss Confederation Until the end of the 1980's the former SWF broadcast could be heard well beyond the Vosges mountains to the west. Vosges (voːʒ is a French department, named after the Vosges mountain range. Since then the power of the transmissions toward France have been limited by international agreements. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.

Notes

^ Taken from the German Wikipedia site.
^ www.westweg.de
^ Berghotel Hochblauen
^ Blauen Observation Tower in the Structurae database
^ Burgen und Schlösser im Landkreis Lörrach
^ Blauen Transmission Tower in the Structurae database
^ . Structurae is an online Database containing works of structural and Civil engineering of all kinds such as Bridges High-rise buildings Structurae is an online Database containing works of structural and Civil engineering of all kinds such as Bridges High-rise buildings . .

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This article incorporates text translated from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of April 14, 2008. The Hochblauen is a 1165 meter high mountain in the southern Black Forest. Events 43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar 's assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common

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