Quittelsberg
| Quittelsberg | ||
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| height | 708.8 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | Thuringia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Slate Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 36 '30 " N , 11 ° 11' 39" E | |
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| particularities | formerly with an observation tower | |
The Quittelsberg is 708.8 m above sea level. NHN high mountain of the Thuringian Slate Mountains in the south of Sitzendorf in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district .
The mountain was created by the crevice-controlled valley erosion, through which peaks were cut out in large areas of homogeneous rock (e.g. in Ordovician phycode schists and quartzites of the Schwarza area ). The summit of the wooded mountain is designated as a nature reserve, in which some pairs of capercaillie were released.
Observation tower
At the summit stood the ruins of a wooden tower built from June 1933 on a stone plinth, which was then called the Adolf Hitler Tower and was marked with a swastika . The observation deck carried a closed hand five meters high, pointing toward the sky. The tower was inaugurated on May 13, 1934 in the presence of the then NSDAP - Reich Governor for Thuringia and Reichstag member Fritz Sauckel , who was executed as a war criminal in 1946 .
The tower was blown up in October 1949 on the orders of the Russian occupation forces by a demolition expert from the Unterweißbach slate quarry , only the brick base was preserved. The tower base was also demolished on March 17, 2018 by the Thuringian forest. This was justified with the forest office's duty of safety .
The staircase will continue to be used as a roost for bats.
See also
List of mountains and elevations in Thuringia