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Parent range
  
Prominence
  
122 m

Elevation
  
944 m

Mountain range
  
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Isolation
  
3.8 km → Teufelskreis (Schneekopf)

Normal route
  
Along the L 2615 between Schmiedefeld/R. and Oberhof

Similar
  
Schneekopf, Großer Beerberg, Adlersberg, Großer Eisenberg, Kickelhahn

Gro er finsterberg


The Großer Finsterberg is a mountain, 944.1 m above NHN, in the Thuringian Forest not far from the villages of Stützerbach and Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig. It is the third highest peak in the German state of Thuringia.

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Map of Gro%C3%9Fer Finsterberg, 98711 Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, Germany

DescriptionEdit

The volcanic origin of the Großer Finsterberg may be seen clearly from the conical shape of its summit, which tilts markedly towards the west.

Apart from the summit plateau, the mountain is completely covered by a nearly natural cotton and reed grass spruce woodland; in most places there is no shrub layer. On the plateau a special mountain pasture vegetation has formed with baldmoney, veronica and St. John's wort.

Subpeaks and boundariesEdit

One kilometre away to the north-northeast is its smaller brother, the Kleiner Finsterberg or Finsterberger Köpfchen (875 m). Two less spectacular eastern subpeaks, 2 to 3 kilometres distant both bear the name Rosenkopf (728 m and 673 m). To the west, northwest and north the Finsterberg is bounded by the Freibach and, to the southeast, by the Taubach, both headstreams of the Ilm.

Neighbouring peaksEdit

Two kilometres to the southwest and separated by the Rennsteig (ca. 800 metres away), is the Großer Eisenberg (907 m). To the northwest, four to five kilometres away, are the two main summits of the range, the Schneekopf (978 m) and the Großer Beerberg (983 m), both of which are higher than the Finsterberg.

HistoryEdit

Since the middle of the 18th century at the Mordfleck (1.5 kilometres east of the summit) and at the Blauer Stein (1 km away to the northwest), stone coal has been mined.

Towards the end of the Second World War, soldiers' graves were dug on the mountainside. From 1954 to 1990 the summit of the Großer Finsterberg was used by the Soviet Union for military purposes and was thus out of bounds to the public.

ViewEdit

Since 1999, there has been a wooden observation platform at the summit of the Großer Finsterberg with a view of the Kickelhahn, the Ringberg on the Adlersberg near Suhl, the Dolmar near Meiningen and the only two mountains in Thuringia that are higher – the Großer Beerberg (983 m) and the Schneekopf (978 m), below whose summits the Schmücke may also be seen. On the east side there is a small hut with another observation point.

References

Großer Finsterberg Wikipedia


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