Kälberberg is a constituent community of

Buttenheim Buttenheim is a market town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg (district), Bamberg and lies in the Regnitz Valley between Bamberg and Nuremberg, Germany. Buttenheim is Levi Strauss’s birthplace: the future inventor of Jeans, blue jean ...

, in the district of Bamberg. It is in the

Upper Franconia Upper Franconia (german: Oberfranken) is a ''Regierungsbezirk'' (administrative 'Regierungs''region 'bezirk'' of the state of Bavaria, southern Germany. It forms part of the historically significant region of Franconia, the others being Middle F ...

n region of

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. It is a small village with about 30 inhabitants. Kälberberg is about 1000 meters west of

Tiefenhöchstadt Tiefenhöchstadt is a small village located in Bavaria, Germany. It is in Upper Franconia, in the Bamberg district. Tiefenhöchstadt is a constituent community of Buttenheim. In 2007, the village had a population of 90. Geography A stream called ...

and is north of

Hochstall Hochstall is a small village located in Bavaria, Germany. It is in Upper Franconia, in the Bamberg district. Hochstall is a constituent community of Buttenheim Buttenheim is a market town in the Upper Franconian district of Bamberg (district), B ...

History

The village was first mentioned in 1145; it had the name ''Calwenberg'' then.

Culture and Sightseeing

Just north of the village is the 142-meter-high :de:Sender Bamberg, a

transmission tower A transmission tower, also known as an electricity pylon or simply a pylon in British English and as a hydro tower in Canadian English, is a tall structure, usually a steel lattice tower, used to support an overhead power line. In electrical gri ...

owned by

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that provides radio, television and telephone service. It was built in 1973. Sender bamberg

bell tower A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell tower ...

was built in the village in 1996.

External links

Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online - KälberbergKälberberg on Google Maps
Bamberg (district) Villages in Bavaria {{Bambergdistrict-geo-stub