Elevation 513 m | ||
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Parent range Palatine Forest → Wasgau Age of rock 251–243 million years ago Mountain type Rock units of the Lower Bunter sandstone (Rehberg and Schlossberg beds)
conical hill Similar Schindhübel, Heidenberg, Hoher Stoppelkopf, Eschkopf, Roßberg | ||
The Großer Eyberg is a 513-metre-high hill in the southern Palatine Forest in Germany. It lies in the county of Südwestpfalz in the borough of Dahn in an area known as the Dahner Felsenland, a part of the Wasgau, a region which comprises the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the northern part of the Vosges Mountains. It is the highest hill in the western Wasgau.
Map of Gro%C3%9Fer Eyberg, 66994 Dahn, Germany
At the summit of the Eyberg is an 18-metre-high, observation tower, of steel lattice construction, which was built between 1945 and 1949 by the French Army. The tower can only be accessed over unmetalled hiking trails.
References
Großer Eyberg Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA