Great Finsterberg
| Great Finsterberg | ||
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 View from the Kalten Staudenkopf (768 m) to the Großer (944.1 m, half right) and the Kleine Finsterberg (875 m, right); half left the Schneekopf (978 m) with its side peaks Teufelskreise (967 m, in front of it) with Schmücke (just below, meadow) and Fichtenkopf (944 m, left of it). The meadow below is at the foot of the Great Iron Mountain (907.4 m, covered to the left); in the middle foreground the Volkmarskopf (726 m). |
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| height | 944.1 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Forest | |
| Dominance | 2.93 km → Vicious circle ( Schneekopf ) | |
| Notch height | 122 m ↓ murder spot | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 38 '17 " N , 10 ° 48' 6" E | |
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| Normal way | Via the L 2615 between Schmiedefeld / R. and Oberhof | |
| particularities | Observation tower | |
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The Great Finsterberg is 944.1 m above sea level. NHN high summit in the Thuringian Forest not far from the villages of Stützerbach ( Ilm district ) and Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig ( Suhl ) and thus the third highest mountain in Thuringia .
description
The conical Großer Finsterberg, which is noticeably inclined to the west at the summit, shows its volcanic origin.
Except for the summit plateau, the mountain is completely forested with an almost pure wool - riding grass - spruce forest ; a shrub layer is largely eliminated. A special mountain meadow vegetation with Bärwurz , Waldehrenpreis and St. John's wort has developed on the plateau .
location
Minor peaks and boundaries
To the north-northeast, just one kilometer away, there is his little brother Kleiner Finsterberg or Finsterberger Köpfchen ( 875 m ). Two less spectacular eastern side peaks ( 728 m ) and ( 673 m ), 2 to 3 kilometers away, both bear the name Rosenkopf. In the west, northwest and north the Finsterberg is bordered by the Freibach and in the southeast by the Taubach , both source brooks of the Ilm .
Neighboring mountains
To the southwest, separated by the Rennsteig (approx. 800 m away), the Große Eisenberg ( 907 m ) is two kilometers away . To the north-west, four to five kilometers away, are the two only (main) peaks of the mountains towering over the Finsterberg, the Schneekopf ( 978 m ) and the Great Beerberg ( 983 m ).
history
Hard coal has been mined at Mordfleck (1.5 kilometers west of the summit) and at Blauer Stein (1 kilometer northwest) since the middle of the 18th century .
At the end of the Second World War , soldiers' graves were laid on the mountain. From 1954 to 1990 the summit of the Great Finsterberg was used for military purposes by the Soviet Union and was therefore a restricted military area.
view
From 2001 to 2018 there was a wooden 7.85 m high observation tower on the summit of the Großer Finsterberg, with a view of the Kickelhahn , the Ringberg on the Adlersberg near Suhl , the Dolmar near Meiningen and the only two higher mountains in Thuringia - the Großer Beerberg ( 983 m ) and the Schneekopf ( 978 m ), below the summit of which the Schmücke could also be seen. The tower was demolished in 2018 due to dilapidation, but an 8 meter high new tower was erected in 2019, the design of a wood-clad and roofed steel structure similar to that of the Ilmenau Lindenberg . On the east side of the summit there is a small hut with another lookout point.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Information on year of construction and height according to the previous information board on the tower
- ↑ Großer Finsterberg receives new observation tower , inSüdthüringen.de accessed on November 22, 2019
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