Osnabrück hill climb map

by Sidney van den Boogaard

Hill climbs belong in the Alps, or so you might think. Germany's northernmost one runs up the Uphöfener Berg near Hilter, in the Teutoburg Forest about 10 km south of Osnabrück. The course is just 2.03 km long, climbs 73 m and has barely changed since the first race in 1968; over so short a distance, every tenth of a second counts. In 2025 it became a round of the European championship for the first time, and in 2026 it hosted Germany's first round of the European historic championship. Up to 30,000 visitors come to watch. For the northern fan who doesn't need mountains to love hill climbing.

This work is part of the Hill Climbs collection: the most famous mountain races, from historic classics to courses where drivers still race the clock every year. Each course is drawn from the real road, with the elevation profile coloured per kilometre and, along the bottom, the length, the height gain, start and finish and the years it was raced.

The road is drawn from OpenStreetMap data (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the profile from Copernicus elevation data. A great gift for any motorsport fan, for the garage, the study or above the desk.