The Drei Kaiserberge (lit. three emperor-mountains)

Hohenstaufen The Hohenstaufen dynasty (, , ), also known as the Staufer, was a noble family of unclear origin that rose to rule the Duchy of Swabia from 1079, and to royal rule in the Holy Roman Empire during the Middle Ages from 1138 until 1254. The dynasty ...

(684 meters),

Rechberg The House of Rechberg is the name of an old noble comital family in Swabia during the Holy Roman Empire period. They were sovereign counts of Rechberg and Rothenlöwen. As a mediatized house (mediatized by Württemberg in 1806), the family belo ...

(707 meters) and Stuifen (757 meters) are

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mountains of the

Swabian Alb The Swabian Jura (german: Schwäbische Alb , more rarely ), sometimes also named Swabian Alps in English, is a mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, extending from southwest to northeast and in width. It is named after the region of ...

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg (; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million inhabitants across a ...

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. They form a distinctive group between Göppingen and

Schwäbisch Gmünd Schwäbisch Gmünd (, until 1934: Gmünd; Swabian: ''Gmẽẽd'' or ''Gmend'') is a city in the eastern part of the German state of Baden-Württemberg. With a population of around 60,000, the city is the second largest in the Ostalb district a ...

and are a widely visible and prominent feature of the region. Since 4 October 1971, they have been protected together with Aasrücken and Rehgebirge as a Landschaftsschutzgebiet (landscape conservation area).Verordnung des Regierungspräsidiums Nordwürttemberg über das Landschaftsschutzgebiet Hohenstaufen, Rechberg, Stuifen mit Aasrücken und Rehgebirge in den Landkreisen Göppingen und Schwäbisch Gmünd vom 4. Oktober 1971 (GBl. 1971, S. 479)
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Hohenstaufen Castle Hohenstaufen Castle (german: Burg Hohenstaufen) is a ruined castle in Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The hill castle was built in the 11th century, on a conical hill between the Rems and Fils rivers (both tributaries of the Neckar) ...

, the family seat of the royal and imperial family Staufer. Its remains can be seen today at the top of Hohenstaufen. The Kaiserberge are depicted in the city logos of Göppingen and Waldstetten. File:Logo Göppingen.svg, Logo of Göppingen File:Logo Waldstetten.jpg, Logo of Waldstetten The route of the yearly marathon Albmarathon runs over all three mountains.

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