Kummelberg

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Kummelberg
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Kummelberg (Kummel) with Bismarck Tower and Waldgaststätte Bismarck Tower Bad Lauterberg seen from the local mountain

Kummelberg ( Kummel ) with Bismarck tower and Waldgaststätte Bismarckturm Bad Lauterberg from local mountain seen

height 536  m above sea level NHN
location near Bad Lauterberg ; District of Göttingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany )
Mountains Harz ( Upper Harz )
Coordinates 51 ° 38 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 11"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 28 "  N , 10 ° 28 ′ 11"  E
Kummelberg (Lower Saxony)
Kummelberg

The Kummelberg , also called Kummel , in the Harz low mountain range is 536  m above sea level. NHN high mountain on the border of the urban area of Bad Lauterberg to the community-free area Harz of the district of Göttingen ( Lower Saxony ).

Geographical location

The Kummelberg is located in the Upper Harz in the Harz Nature Park . It rises directly north of the core town of Bad Lauterberg and west of the Lauterberg district of Odertal , between the Oder in the east and its tributary Lutter in the west. The mountain has two peaks, which are about 150 m apart in a west-northwest-east-south-east direction: the west knoll is 536  m high and the east knoll about 535  m .

History and description

The Lauterberger Bismarck Tower has stood on the eastern tip of the wooded Kummelberg since 1904 , an approximately 15 m high observation tower , from whose observation platform (approx.  550  m above sea level ) the view falls, among other things, into the Harz landscape, down to Bad Lauterberg and into the Harz foreland.

View from the district of Odertal to the east side of the Kummelberg (left in the background)

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. Ostkuppenhöhe according to the topographical map of Kummelberg ( memento of the original from September 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (DTK 25; see large enlargement of the map; height information directly on the observation tower), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
  3. a b Bismarck Tower Bad Lauterberg , on bismarcktuerme.de