Neuastenberg is a village in the borough of
Winterberg in
North Rhine-Westphalia
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,
Germany
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With about 560
inhabitant
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s it is the largest mountain village in the borough.
Geography and history
Neuastenberg lies at a height of 690 to 790 m on the crest of the
Rothaargebirge mountain range in
Hochsauerland district. It is located on the southern slopes of the
Kahler Asten Kahler may refer to:
Places
*Kahler, Luxembourg, a small town in the commune of Garnich
*Kahler Asten, a German mountain range
Other uses
*Kahler (surname)
*Kahler's disease, a cancer otherwise known as ''multiple myeloma''
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, about 6 kilometres southwest of Winterberg and between the upper reaches of the river
Lenne
The Lenne is a tributary of the river Ruhr in the Sauerland hills, western Germany. It has caused flooding in recent years.
Having its source on top of the ''Kahler Asten'' near Winterberg in an intermittent spring at an elevation of , the Len ...
to the north and the
Odeborn to the south.
The history of the village goes back to the 18th century and is closely linked to the history of Winterberg and
Bad Berleburg
Bad Berleburg (, earlier also Berleburg) is a town, in the district of Siegen-Wittgenstein, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is one of Germany's largest towns by land area. It is located approximately northeast of Siegen and northwest of ...
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Tourism
Neuastenberg is especially well known for its
winter sport
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facilities - the
Postwiesen ski region, the
Biathlon
The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not time ...
stadium of the Neuastenberg-Langewiese Sports Club and the indoor
go-cart
A go-kart, also written as go-cart (often referred to as simply a kart), is a type of sports car, close wheeled car, open-wheel car or quadracycle. Go-karts come in all shapes and forms, from non-motorised models to high-performance racing ...
track at the Dorint Hotel. In addition there has been a private initiative in Neuastenberg to establish the
West German Winter Sport Museum, completed with an attached restaurant.
External links
Web site of the Neuastenberg Tourist Office
Villages in North Rhine-Westphalia
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