Schallberg

Schallberg
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height	641 m above sea level NHN
location	District of Wunsiedel in the Fichtelgebirge , Bavaria , Germany
Mountains	Fichtel Mountains
Coordinates	50 ° 5 '12 " N , 11 ° 53' 35" E Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '12 " N , 11 ° 53' 35" E
rock	Pewter granite

The Schallberg is a 641 m above sea level. NHN high mountain, 1.8 km south of the city of Weißenstadt in the district of Wunsiedel in the Fichtel Mountains . The wooded hill is made of tin granite. Since the Middle Ages, extensive mining for tin ore has taken place in the closer and wider area of the Schallberg .

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Topographic map of the Bavarian Land Surveying Office No. 5837 Weißenstadt and 5937 Fichtelberg, scale 1: 25,000

Thiem Rudolf: On the history of tin mining in the Fichtelgebirge ; Issue 8/1998 of the series of publications of the Fichtelgebirgsverein "Das Fichtelgebirge" , p. 71f.