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Bettenfeld
Bettenfeld is an ''Ortsgemeinde'' – a Municipalities of Germany, municipality belonging to a ''Verbandsgemeinde'', a kind of collective municipality – in the Bernkastel-Wittlich Districts of Germany, district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Geography The village lies in the southern Vulkan Eifel, Vulkaneifel at elevations of between 460 and 480 m above sea level and is framed by two particularly high peaks: To the southwest lie the wooded lands of the 544 m-high Holzbeul, while rising on the east side of Bettenfeld's municipal area is the Mosenberg, a former volcano, with the Windsborn Crater Lake. This 519 m-high mountain is made up of four craters, the most impressive among which is the water-filled Windsborn, a Volcanic crater lake, crater lake whose rim is fully preserved; it is the only mountain crater lake north of the Alps. The Mosenberg's extraordinary appearance was already being appreciated in the 19th century by travellers, artists and scientists, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsborn Crater Lake
Windsborn Crater Lake (german: Windsborn-Kratersee) is a water-filled volcanic crater in the Eifel mountains in Germany. It is located near Bettenfeld in the county of Bernkastel-Wittlich and in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and belongs to a group of four craters known as the Mosenberg Crater Row (''Reihenkrater Mosenberg''), named after the village of Mosenberg. Location The Windsborn Crater Lake lies in the southwestern part of the Volcanic Eifel within the Volcanic Eifel Nature Park. It is situated 1.2 kilometres east of the village church of Bettenfeld on the north-northwestern part of the Mosenberg hill () just below the contour. Viewed from the south the crater lake is the third crater in the Mosenberg Crater Row and lies within the nature reserve of ''Reihenkrater Mosenberg und Horngraben'', to which the fourth crater, the Hinkelsmaar (sometimes called the ''Hinkelmaar''), 330 metres to the north-northeast of Windsborn Crater Lake. The ''Landesstraße ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |