Great dog head (Thuringian Forest)
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 Quarry on the southern edge of the Großer Hundskopfes |
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| height | 824 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Forest | |
| Dominance | 1.7 km → Großer Dreiherrnstein | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 36 '36 " N , 10 ° 52' 18" E | |
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The great dog head is 824 m above sea level. NHN high mountain on the Rennsteig in the Thuringian Forest . It is 3 km south of Stützerbach and just under 1 km northeast of the Ilmenau district Allzunah in the Ilm district , Thuringian Forest, just below the summit .
From the southwest of the Hundkopfes to the south, with no valleys worth mentioning in between, the Staudenkopf-Ridge , which is about 8 km long, bounded by the Nahe to the west and by the sluice to the east, branches off with the Großer Riesenhaupt ( 764 m ) near Frauenwald, Schmiedswiesenkopf ( 784 m ) and Kaltem Staudenkopf ( 768 m ). Separated from this ridge by the Tränkbach , the Rennwegkopf goes 751 m east of Frauenwald directly from the Hundskopf to the south.
The neighboring summit to the east on the Rennsteig is the Große Dreiherrnstein ( 838 m ) not far from the historic Großer Dreiherrenstein crossroads.
On the summit of the Großer Hundskopf there is a refuge, and to the south of it, at the edge of the quarry, a lookout point with a bench (in the middle of the left half of the photo on the right) with a view of the southwestern Thuringian Forest. This extends from Frauenwald in the west via Masserberg to Neustadt am Rennsteig in the east and far beyond.