Merkur

The Merkur or Groer Staufenberg is a mountain, 668.3 m above sea degree, within the Northern Black Forest, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany. It is the Hausberg of Baden-Baden and placed among the spa city and the town of Gernsbach. The mountain is known as after the Ancient Roman god of trade and trade, Mercury, to whom a Roman votive stone at the summit is dedicated. The Merkurstein has been recorded because the 16^th century. Today, there is a forged of the unique votive stone at the summit plateau; its prototype is in the Baden-Baden Municipal Museum series.

The authentic call of the unfastened-standing conical mountain was the Groer Staufenberg, a reference to the shape of a turned ingesting mug called a Stauf. The summit of the Merkur is handiest on hand on foot, through bicycle or on the Merkur Funicular Railway from Baden-Baden. The funicular become built in 1913, however closed in 1967 for technical motives. It re-opened in 1979. It is 1,200 metres long, one of the longest railways of its type in Germany, and climbs gradients of up to 54%. There are exact perspectives of Baden-Baden at some point of the ascent.