Rough hills
| Rough hills | ||
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 Leipzig Tower on the Rauhhügel (802 m) |
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| height | 802 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | District of Saalfeld-Rudolstadt , Thuringia , Germany | |
| Mountains | Thuringian Slate Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 32 '36 " N , 11 ° 13' 0" E | |
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| rock | Phycode slate | |
| Age of the rock | Silurian | |
| particularities | Leipzig Tower ( AT ) | |
The Rauhhügel is a survey with a height of 802 m above sea level. NHN north of Schmiedefeld in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district . On the ridge there is a transmitter mast and the "Leipziger Turm", an observation tower with an excursion restaurant.
The rough hill is made up of slate from the deep Silurian . The key fossil is Phycodes circinatum , an Ichnofossil . The phycode slate of the rough hill has a high iron content.
Leipzig Tower
The Leipzig tower is 17.5 m high (upper viewing platform 14 m). With clear air and favorable weather conditions, there is a distant view not only of the surrounding mountains of the Thuringian Slate Mountains and the Thuringian Forest , but also of many mountains of the Fichtelgebirge and the Ore Mountains . These are among others:
- W NW - Spitzer Berg (790.3 m), Lichte
- W SW - Mutzenberg (769.6 m), Lichte
- W SW - Neuhaus am Rennweg (830 m)
- Töpfersbühl (762.6 m), Reichmannsdorf , Wickersdorf
- Kirchberg (784.2 m) with Fröbelturm , Oberweißbach
- Meuselbacher Kuppe (786.1 m), Meuselbach
- Ochsenkopf (1,024 m) and Schneeberg (1,051 m), Fichtelgebirge
- Fichtelberg (1,214.8 m), Ore Mountains
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Olitätenland - "Leipziger Turm" refuge. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 17, 2007 ; Retrieved July 9, 2010 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The geology of Lichte-Wallendorf (based on E. Wachsmut) in: Albert Brödel, W. Brödel (ed.), Von der Köhlerhütte zum Industriestandort (... history of the place Lichte ... according to official sources 1937-1939) , 1997 , P. 9
- ↑ Leipziger Turm on thueringer-wald.com
