Alsfeld (German pronunciation: [ˈalsfɛlt]) is a town in the center of Hesse, in Germany. Large towns nearby are Bad Hersfeld about 33 kilometres (21 miles) to the east, Fulda 36 kilometres (22 miles) to the southeast, Gießen 47 kilometres (29 miles) to the west and Marburg an der Lahn about 36 kilometres (22 miles) to the northwest. Alsfeld is located on the upper part of the Schwalm in the northern Vogelsberg Mountains and just to the south of the Knüll Mountains at the western edge of the Alsfeld basin.
Population: 17,771
Latitude: 50° 45' 6.66" N
Longitude: 9° 16' 14.95" E
The Fulda Gap is an area between the Hesse-Thuringian border (the former intra-German border) and Frankfurt am Main that contains two corridors of lowlands which tanks might have driven in a surprise attack effort by the Soviets and their Warsaw Pac…
The Vogelsberg Mountains or Vogelsberg (German for Bird's Mountain) are a large volcanic massif in eastern Upper Hesse separated from the Rhön Mountains by the Fulda River and its valley.
Jäger Regiment 1 is the air assault infantry regiment of the German Army, the only formation of its kind in the Bundeswehr. While it comes from the old German tradition of Jäger, it is a relatively recently formed air assault formation, established …
The Vogelsbergkreis is a Kreis (district) in the middle of Hesse, Germany.
Knüllgebirge or Knüll is a small mountain range in Hesse, Germany. It is located in the Northern part of Hesse approximately 45 km South of Kassel, its highest peak is the Eisenberg having an altitude of 635.5m. Its area has a rather low population …
Taufstein is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.
Allmenrod is a small village in north Hesse (Germany) with a population of 350 (2003).
Treysa station (German: Bahnhof Treysa) is a train station in Schwalmstadt, Hesse, on the Main–Weser Railway.
Sieben Ahorn is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.
Schlossberg Ulrichstein is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.
Rimberg is a mountain of Hesse, Germany.
Knüllköpfchen is a mountain of Schwalm-Eder-Kreis, Hesse, Germany.
The Hainigturm is a tower and tourist attraction in the Vogelsbergkeis, (Hesse, Germany). It is located between Lauterbach and Angersbach. The tower, which now consists of stones, used to be made completely out of wood.
Geiselstein is a mountain of Bavaria, Germany.
Asterode is a municipal district of the town of Neukirchen in Schwalm-Eder-Kreis district in Hesse, Germany.