The Bornberg is a 520-metre-high hill in the county of

Kusel Kusel (; written ''Cusel'' until 1865) is a town in the Kusel (district), Kusel Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is the seat of the Kusel-Altenglan ''Verbandsgemeinde'' and is also the district seat. The well-kno ...

in the

North Palatine Uplands The North Palatine Uplands (german: Nordpfälzer Bergland), sometimes shortened to Palatine Uplands (''Pfälzer Bergland''), is a low mountain range and landscape unit in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate and belongs mainly to the Palat ...

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. The Bornberg has 2 summits: the ''Kiefernkopf'' and ''Trautmannsberg''. In the northwest it is adjoined by the Herrmannsberg. To the east flows the Talbach, to the southeast, the Jettenbach and, to the west, the Reichenbach. Nearby villages are

Oberweiler im Tal Oberweiler im Tal is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' Lauterecken-Wol ...

Eßweiler Eßweiler (, with a short E; also ''Essweiler'') is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verba ...

Jettenbach Jettenbach is a municipality in the district of Mühldorf in Bavaria, Germany. It lies on the river Inn Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located ...

and

Bosenbach Bosenbach is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Kusel district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It belongs to the ''Verbandsgemeinde'' of Kusel-Altenglan, whose ...

. On the Bornberg is the Schneeweiderhof, a hamlet which is part of Eßweiler. Dhessweilersteinbruch

From 1840 several quarries were established on the Bornberg. They were owned from 1914 by Basalt AG,

Linz am Rhein Linz am Rhein (in English ''Linz on the Rhine'') is a municipality in the district of Neuwied, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is situated on the right bank of the river Rhine near Remagen, approx. 25 km southeast of Bonn and has about ...

and were worked until 1970. Closely linked with the quarries is the Schneeweiderhof, a hamlet in the parish of Eßweiler, where many of the quarrymen lived. In 1924 a worker's settlement, the ''Kolonie'', was built at Schneeweiderhof which still exists today. Between 1952 and 1965 it even had its own school. In 1988, Kusel sited its county rubbish tip in the old quarries. In 2005,

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's ''Eßweiler'' weather station was established here as well. In November 2008, a

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was built next to the rubbish tip on the site of the old green waste area covering four hectares and generating 1.5 MW. It is operated by ''Neue Energie Pfälzer Bergland'', a cooperative venture between ''Pfalzwerke AG'' and the county of Kusel. On the Bornberg there is also a 151-metre-high tower, the Bornberg Telecommunication Tower, owned by

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which is used to broadcast several radio programmes (VHF and DAB). In 1972 a

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pipeline was built, running over the Bornberg from the Netherlands to Italy. In 2002, prior to the expansion of the gas pipeline, a

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was carried out on the southern hillside of the Bornberg between Eßweiler, Jettenbach and Bosenbach, as a result of which a

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estate farm and traces of

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settlement were found.

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Steinbrüche auf dem Schneeweiderhof

Ausgrabung eines römischen Gutshofes
Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate Kusel (district)