Spitzstein (Hunsrück)
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Spitzstein from the southeast |
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height | 417 m above sea level NHN | |
location | near St. Goar Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis , Rhineland-Palatinate ( Germany ) | |
Mountains | Hunsrück | |
Coordinates | 50 ° 7 '43 " N , 7 ° 41' 42" E | |
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rock | quartzitic sandstone | |
particularities |
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The top stone is 417 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Hunsrück , where it drops steeply as the southeastern Rheinhunsrück into the Upper Middle Rhine Valley near St. Goar . It rises to the east of Urbar and north of Niederburg , both of which are local parishes of the Sankt Goar-Oberwesel community in the Rhein-Hunsrück district .
On the top there are remains of a telegraph station that was built here at the end of the 18th century. It was part of a 700 km long telegraph line between Berlin and Trier , which consisted of a total of 61 stations. In addition, a 21 m high observation tower made of Douglas fir was built in 2003 . It was freely accessible and offered a comprehensive overview. In autumn 2015 the tower was closed due to fungus infestation; it was demolished in April 2018. In 2020, a new steel observation tower was completed with a replica of a wing telegraph at the top. The opening of the tower has been delayed due to the corona pandemic .
View from the Fünfseenblick lookout tower to the southeast to the Spitzenstein
View from Schönburg Castle to the northwest to the Spitzenstein
Web links
- Panoramic photo (360 °) from the observation tower on the Spitzenstein in 2016 (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate Nature Conservation Administration (LANIS map) ( notes ) Scale 1: 1,000
- ↑ a b Information board on the tower
- ↑ Sponge fungus infestation : The "Spitzer Stein" observation tower may no longer be entered on rhein-zeitung.de from November 16, 2015, accessed on July 22, 2016
- ^ "Demolished: Tower is History" Rhein-Zeitung from April 23, 2018
- ↑ romantischer-rhein.de , accessed on May 27, 2020