Great Wartberg (Ruhla)
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 General view from the north-west, on the right the Kleine Wartberg, on the left the Große Wartberg |
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| height | 567.7 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Forest | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 '3 " N , 10 ° 25' 47" E | |
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| particularities | cave | |
The Great Wartberg is a striking, 567.7 m high mountain in the east of the city of Ruhla in the Wartburg district in Thuringia .
The fully forested Große Wartberg is located immediately south of the Seebach community . At the foot of the mountain ran the former border between the Duchy of Saxe-Gotha and Seebach, which was part of the Grand Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach . The secondary summit Kleiner Wartberg ( ⊙ 553.6 m ) is located to the west of the main summit and can be recognized as a conical dome, on the western flank you can climb the “Dicelstein” viewpoint on a rock.
Close to the summit, on the northern slope of the Great Wartberg, there is a mysterious cave, which is associated with the presence of the Venetians, it is known as the oven hole .
The Wartberg was spelled “Martberg” in the 18th and 19th centuries - probably due to a typographical error in various maps.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Official topographic maps of Thuringia 1: 10,000. Wartburgkreis, district of Gotha, district-free city of Eisenach . In: Thuringian Land Survey Office (Hrsg.): CD-ROM series Top10 . CD 2. Erfurt 1999.
- ↑ Ines Walk; Roland Geyer: Eisenach and surroundings - Wartburg district, north . Ed .: Thuringian State Office for Archaeological Monument Preservation (= Archaeological Hiking Guide Thuringia . No. 11 ). Beier & Beran, Weimar 2011, ISBN 978-3-937517-67-4 , pp. 141 .