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Osnabrücker Bergrennen – List of Winners

Date	Winner		Car	Time	Final
2000	Herbert Stenger		Stenger BMW	2:49,750	Results
14-15/08/2004	Herbert Stenger		Stenger BMW	3:47,344	Results
13-14/08/2005	Herbert Stenger		Stenger BMW	4:33,047	Results
12-13/08/2006	Herbert Stenger		Stenger BMW	3:46,651	Results
11-12/08/2007	Jörg Weidinger		Osella PA20/S	3:48,814	Results
16-17/08/2008	Uwe Lang		Osella PA20/S	3:44,525	Results
15-16/08/2009	Jörg Weidinger		Osella PA20/S	3:42,634	Results
21-22/08/2010	Guy Demuth		G-Force Reynard	3:44,576	Results
13-14/08/2011	Guy Demuth		Osella FA30	4:24,868	Results
04-05/08/2012	Marcel Steiner		Osella FA30	3:44,071	Results
03-04/08/2013	Julien Ducommun		Osella FA30	3:28,539	Results
02-03/08/2014	Eric Berguerand		Lola FA99	2:45,633	Results
01-02/08/2015	Joel Volluz		Osella FA30	2:36,902	Results
06-07/08/2016	Christian Merli		Osella FA30	2:35,741	Results
05-06/08/2017	Christian Merli		Osella FA30	1:42,688	Results
04-05/08/2018	Sébastien Petit		Norma M20 FC	1:40,305	Results
03-04/08/2019	Christian Merli		Osella FA30	1:40,426	Results

The Osnabrücker Bergrennen is currently the most northern Hillclimb in Germany. It takes place near the small village of Borgloh, which in turn is part of the larger muncipality of Hilter am Teutoburger Wald. As the place name reveals, the Hillclimb lies in the Teutoburg Forest. This forest is actually a hilly landscape. It starts in the province of Lower Saxony (Niedersachsen), northwest of Osnabrück in a south-east direction towards Hilter. Here the hills reach peaks of 260 meters. Further southeast in Nordrhein Westfalen, past the city of Bielefeld, the highest hills are found, up to 450 meters. The Teutoburg Forest was formed more than 70 million years ago by the shifting of tectonic plates. This exposed old geological layers dating more than 200 million years back. It makes the region an ideal place for dinosaur fossils, except that at the time the surface was mostly covered with seas. In later years the landscape was shaped by glaciers in the various iceages, in turn eroding and despositing rockformations. Large parts of the Teutoburg Forest are incorporated in two nature parks. The Naturpark Teutoburger Walds southeast of Bielefeld and the Naturpark Terra.vita northwest of the city. Hilter is located in the northern park.
The Teutoburg Forest is named after the Varusschlacht in the year 9. In this battle three Roman legions were destroyed by Germanic forces under the leadership of Arminius (Hermann). It was the most shocking defeat of the Romans until that time. It was wildly believed that this battle stopped the Roman expansion north of the Rhine. In the 19th century in the struggle for German unity the history of the Battle was adopted by nationalists. A large memorial, the Hermannsdenkmal, was erected at Detmold, southeast of Bielefeld, at what was believed to be the site of the battle. Later archeological finds point towards the Kalkriese north of Osnabrück as the actual site. There you will now find a museum which also takes tours on the actual battleground.
Hilter lies some 25 kilometres southeast of Osnabrück and 35 kilometres northwest of Bielefeld.