Heiligenberg (Heidelberg)
The Heiligenberg is a large wooded hill overlooking the town of Heidelberg in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It rises to around 440 metres NHN. It has been the site of many historic and pre-historic constructions, including a Celtic hilltop fortification, a Roman sacred precinct, several medieval monasteries, modern lookout towers and the Heidelberg Thingstätte, built by the Nazis in the 1930s.
Heiligenberg (left) and Michaelsberg (right), viewed from downstream on the Neckar
The Heiligenberg viewed from across the river; in the foreground the old town of Heidelberg
1645 engraving of the Heiligenberg and the Heidenloch by Matthäus Merian
Ruins of early 11th-century Monastery of St. Michael
Heidelberg is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Neckar in south-west Germany. As of the 2016 census, its population was 159,914, of which roughly a quarter consisted of students.
View from Heidelberg Castle park on the city with Heiliggeistkirche and Old Bridge over the Neckar
Heidelberg seen from Königstuhl
The Old Town
Heidelberg on the Neckar at night