Ehrenberg (Ilmenau)
| Ehrenberg | ||
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 Summit cross on the Ehrenberg |
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| height | 528 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Forest | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 41 '0 " N , 10 ° 56' 50" E | |
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 Forest floor after the fire on July 22, 2006 |
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The Ehrenberg is 528 m above sea level. NHN high mountain east of Ilmenau and west of Langewiesen in Thuringia .
It is located about 500 meters north of the Ilm , to the valley of which it drops off steeply (about 70 meters). Here the Ilm forms a breakthrough from the Ilmenau valley basin, as the Tragberg is opposite the Ehrenberg . The Ilm Valley is very narrow between the two mountains. The border between the Ilmenau core town and the district of Langewiesen, which until 1920 was the state border between Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach and Schwarzburg-Sondershausen , runs over the top of the Ehrenberg .
Today only a small pine grove remains at the top of the hill, its slopes have been gradually cleared over the past 100 years. The west side of the Ehrenberg is today the area of the campus of the Technical University of Ilmenau , which has been called the Hans-Stamm-Campus since 1998 . The first university buildings were built here in 1955, when Hans Stamm was the rector of the university at the time. In addition to numerous university buildings, the state vocational school center Arnstadt-Ilmenau , the Ilmenau location of the Federal Information Technology Center , the industrial area "Werner-von-Siemens-Straße Ilmenau" and the industrial area "Ehrenberg Ost" Langewiesen are also located on the Ehrenberg .
In the 18th and 19th centuries, the Ehrenberg also attracted poets, who enjoyed watching the then still small town from here at sunset. A memorial stone at Knebelblick still bears witness to this today, named after the German poet Karl Ludwig von Knebel , who is said to have liked to linger here.
During the GDR era, the summit cross on the Ehrenberg was erected by students of the Catholic student community in a night-and-fog campaign. The SED regime never tried to dismantle the cross. In 2004 it collapsed due to weather damage and was then renewed by the Catholic student community.
On July 22nd, 2006 there was a forest fire on the Ehrenberg , which was triggered by the extreme drought of the previous weeks and burned around 6000 m² of fields, meadows and forest. The fire did not cause any major damage.