Glass mountain

Glass mountain
Dermbacher Hut on the Glass Mountain
height	670.4  m above sea level NHN
location	Thuringia , Germany
Mountains	Rhön
Coordinates	50 ° 41 '33 "  N , 10 ° 5' 57"  E Coordinates: 50 ° 41 '33 "  N , 10 ° 5' 57"  E
Type	Basalt breakthrough
Normal way	Walk from Föhlritz

The glasses mountain or short glasses is 670.4  m above sea level. NHN high mountain near Föhlritz, a hamlet near Brunnhartshausen in the Thuringian part of the Rhön , a low mountain range in Bavaria , Hesse and Thuringia ( Germany ).

Geographical location

The Glass Mountain rises within the Wartburg district around 3 km southwest of the core town of Dermbach . The village of Föhlritz is located on the mountain slope about 700 m south of the glass. South to south-east of the mountain are the places Brunnhartshausen, Empfertshausen that in the valley of Felda located Neidhartshausen and Zella . A little further downstream and thus further north is the aforementioned Dermbach. The village of Steinberg is located west of the Glass Mountain .

history

As early as 1879, the Rhön Club built the first log cabin next to the summit cross . It comfortably seated 30 people and was inaugurated on August 17, 1879. On August 22, 1914, it was replaced by a successor building. The log cabin was rebuilt in 1994 by the Rhönklub , Dermbach branch, and inaugurated on October 3, 1994. The exposed location has its price - in 1998 the roof was re-covered with 35,000 larch shingles. The hut is managed and open on Sundays and public holidays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. In 2001 a display board was set up at the lookout point, on which the visible mountains and towns are shown as a guide.

Routes to the summit

• A road leads from Brunnhartshausen to Föhlritz, at the upper end of which there is a parking lot. From there, a relatively easy hiking trail runs for about 1 km to the top of the glasses with the Dermbacher hut.
• On the north side of the mountain, a path coming from Dermbach reaches the summit, the path from there runs past the Karl-Friedrich-Stein and the shepherd's drink.
• The Main-Werra-Weg (HSN) also leads over the Gläserberg.

Possibility of viewing

When visibility is good, these targets can be seen from the glasses mountain (sometimes only with binoculars):

View of the Baier and Unteralba

• in the North
  • the high Meissner
  • the Monte Kali (a potash salt mountain) near Heringen
  • the Baier and the place Oberalba
• in the East
  • the Wartburg
  • the Lindigshof near Dermbach
  • the island mountain
  • the pless
  • the Horn (578 m high mountain)
  • the Stopfelskuppe
  • the dolmar

View of Zella , Empfertshausen and Klings

• in the south
  • Neuberg and Roßberg
  • the Umpfen with Fischbach at the foot of the mountains
  • Diesburg , Leichelberg and Alte Mark
  • Diedorf
  • Zella , Empfertshausen , Klings
• in the West
  • Kreuzberg , Heidelstein , Wasserkuppe and Milseburg protrude just above the ridge in front of it

More pictures

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  Northwest side of the Glass Mountain in winter

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  Cow pasture on the northwest side

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  The wooded south side with the village of Föhlritz

See also

• List of mountains in the Rhön

Web links

Commons : Glassesberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Dermbacher Hütte on rhoenklub.de
• View from the Glass Mountain on panorama-photo.net

literature

• Rhönklub (Ed.): Schneiders Rhönführer. Official guide of the Rhön Club, 2005, Parzeller Verlag, Fulda, ISBN 3-7900-0365-4 , p. 292

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
2. ^ Regina Rinke: Rhön Club Huts in the Thuringian Rhön . In: Rhönklub (Ed.): Rhönwacht . No. 1 , 1991, ISSN  0936-1723 , pp. 18th f .