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Hinterzarten

Bobbahn Hinterzarten

Hinterzarten, Black Forest, Baden-Württemberg · Germany

A bob run built of snow and raced in January 1954; the slope is now used for sledging.

No mapped line survives for this track yet.

Real track · Published figures

First raced
1954
Length
1,000 m
Curves
9

The 1,000 m and nine bends describe the 1954 Kessler course. The later Adlerwald concrete run was a separate track; the final year of racing on each has not been established.

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The Slidensa model, drawn over the real ground. Follow the run into every curve.

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Game model · Two-man bobsleigh reference run. These lengths, speeds and loads come from Slidensa’s physics and can differ from the real track’s published figures.

Length
989m
Drop
70m
Curves
9
Top speed
113km/h
Peak load
2.9g
Reference run
0:41.78
Curve-by-curve guide · 9 curves

The three curves in lime pull hardest in the reference run.

  1. 1 0° right Kink 1.0 g · 40 km/h
  2. 2 0° right Kink 1.0 g · 54 km/h
  3. 3 0° left Kink 1.0 g · 87 km/h
  4. 4 87° right 2.4 g · 102 km/h
  5. 5 63° left 2.6 g · 107 km/h
  6. 6 97° right 2.9 g · 113 km/h
  7. 7 49° left 2.9 g · 111 km/h
  8. 8 97° right 2.7 g · 108 km/h
  9. 9 49° left 2.7 g · 106 km/h

The story

Hinterzarten’s Kessler bob course opened in 1954 in the Black Forest. Its 1,000 m run had nine bends and hosted the South-West German two-man championships that January. Snow blocks formed the walls of this hand-built course. A later concrete run in the Adlerwald held smaller meetings. The two were separate tracks rather than successive forms of one unchanged channel.

Today

The Kesslerhang, by the Adler ski stadium, is now a slope where children sledge; the exact line of the 1954 run is not known.