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 jeans ...

, in the district of Bamberg. It is in the

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n region of

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. It is a small village with about 30 inhabitants. Kälberberg is about 1000 meters west of Tiefenhöchstadt and is north of Hochstall.

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 , a

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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 to ...

was built in the village in 1996.

External links

Bayerische Landesbibliothek Online - Kälberberg
Bamberg (district) Villages in Bavaria {{Bambergdistrict-geo-stub