Landskrone (Ahr)

Landskrone
View from Langer Köbes viewing tower on the Neuenahrer Berg looking northeast over the on the A 61 to the Landskrone The Landskrone in 2005 with the on the A 61 and (front) in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler
Highest point
Elevation	271.7 m above sea level (NHN) (891 ft) [1]
Coordinates	50°33′05″N 7°10′21″E / 50.55125°N 7.172389°E / 50.55125; 7.172389Coordinates: 50°33′05″N 7°10′21″E / 50.55125°N 7.172389°E / 50.55125; 7.172389
Geography
Landskrone Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Parent range	Middle Rhine
Geology
Mountain type	Conical hill
Type of rock	Basalt

The Landskrone in the borough of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate is a hill, 271.7 m above sea level (NHN),^[1] in the Middle Rhine area. It used to be called the Gimmiger Berg and Gymmicher Kupp, but is now named after the ruins of the imperial castle of  [de] which are found on its heights. On the western hillside of the Landskrone is the Chapel of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour (Maria-Hilf-Kapelle) or St. Mary's Chapel (Marienkapelle).

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  The Landskrone around 1900 with the village of and St. Mary's Chapel on its western flanks

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  Landskrone, 2016 aerial photograph

Geography[]

The Landskrone is part of the northern foothills of the lower Ahr Valley. It lies east of Bad Neuenahr between in the north-northwest and Heppingen in the west, in the south and in the east, all belonging to the borough of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. To the south the River Ahr flows past from east to west, which is joined by the (Heppinger Bach) to the southwest and to the Lohrsdorfer Bach to the east-southeast.

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