Fire Tower (Ore Mountains)
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.jpg) View from Bärenstein to the Stahlberg ridge with Toskabank and fire tower. In the background Fichtelberg (right) and Klínovec (Keilberg) (left). |
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| height | 851 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Erzgebirgskreis , Saxony ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Ore Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 28 '54 " N , 13 ° 0' 7" E | |
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The mountain fire tower is 851 m above sea level. NHN high summit in the upper Ore Mountains . It is located in the southeast of the municipality of Sehmatal and west of the municipality of Bärenstein in the Saxon Erzgebirgskreis , Germany.
Location and surroundings
The Feuerturm summit, with the Toskabank summit directly to the south, is 887 m above sea level. NHN to the Stahlberg ridge , after which the Stahlberg settlement belonging to Bärenstein was named. The Stahlberg ridge forms the watershed between the Pöhlbach in the east and the Sehma in the west.
The Feuerturm summit is located between the places Stahlberg and Precipitation (both to Bärenstein) in the east and Kretscham-Rothensehma and Neudorf (to Sehmatal ) in the west. The Lampertsbach, which flows into the Sehma, runs to the west and north of the mountain . It is dammed in the north of the mountain as the Cranzahl dam.
history
The names of the Feuerturm and Toskabank peaks did not arise until the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century. In the 16th century and later, the ridge was only known as the Stahlberg . The ridge with its slopes in the west and north was delimited by the Lampertsbach, in the east by the Pöhlbach and in the south-west and south by the land boundaries of Neudorf and Kretscham-Rothensehma. He belonged to the Electoral Saxon office in Schlettau . After 1650, the name of the Stahlberg gradually passed on to the settlement founded by Bohemian exiles , which developed on the north-east upstream elevation south of the place Bärenstein. The field name Stahlberg last appeared in 1824. Afterwards it was replaced by the names Steinberg / Feuerturm for the northern part and Toskabank for the southern part.
The northern and lower elevation of the Stahlberg received the name Steinberg or the double name Steinberg or fire tower in the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century . A fire in the Thurmer Stolln was mentioned around 1815 on the eastern slope of the Stahlberg . In later times up to the present day, only the name fire tower is used for the summit , the name Steinberg has been forgotten.
view
From the summit there is a view to the northeast of the Bärenstein and to the north of the Cranzahl reservoir.
Paths to the summit
The summit can be reached via the Erzgebirge-Vogtland ridge trail from the north via Cranzahl and Bärenstein or from the south via the Toskabank summit. The fire tower path, which runs from Stahlberg to Neudorf, meets the ridge path north of the fire tower.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Saxony Atlas of the Free State of Saxony ( notes )
- ↑ Official Journal of the Municipality of Bärenstein, Edition 02/2013, p. 9 ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Official Journal of the Municipality of Bärenstein, Edition 10/2012, p. 7 ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The fire tower on the website of the municipality of Sehmatal
- ^ Website of the Erzgebirge-Vogtland ridge trail
