Königswarte
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 Summit region of the Königswarte with a lookout tower and telecommunications reconnaissance system |
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| height | 344 m above sea level A. | |
| location | Lower Austria | |
| Mountains | Small Carpathians | |
| Dominance | 5.25 km → Hundsheimer Berg | |
| Notch height | 95 m ↓ east of Hindlerberg | |
| Coordinates | 48 ° 6 '56 " N , 17 ° 1' 23" E | |
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| particularities | Observation tower | |
The Königswarte ( 344 m above sea level ) is the easternmost mountain in Austria . It is located in the Lower Carpathian Mountains on the Austrian border with Slovakia between the villages of Wolfsthal , Berg and Edelstal . It can be clearly seen from Bratislava - Petržalka and forms a natural landmark from the west.
Several hiking trails lead over the mountain. There is a fallow deer enclosure in the woods on the north side . To the northeast of the summit and around 120 meters below are the ruins of Pottenburg Castle . A lookout tower was built next to the summit, exactly on the municipal boundary between Wolfsthal and Berg. This is 22.7 m high and was reopened in 2001. To the east is the Königswarte telecommunications reconnaissance system of the Army Intelligence Office , which is used for SIGINT and which was built and continuously modernized from 1958 with the help of the USA .
The 298 m high Hindlerberg is 1.25 km in a west-southwest direction .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Lookout tower on the Königswarte in Berg. APA-OTS, October 11, 2001, accessed January 18, 2011 .
- ^ Profile: Heeresnachrichtenamt: What the US secret services suck off ; Retrieved April 1, 2014
- ↑ Satellite espionage station Königswarte fm4.orf.at, accessed on July 7, 2014
- ↑ The underground data center of the Königswarte fm4.orf.at, accessed on July 29, 2014