Ejer Bavnehøj

Reunion tower ( Genforeningstårnet ) on the Ejer Bavnehøj (2008)

The Ejer Bavnehøj [ ɑi̯əʀ bɑu̯nəhɔi̯ʔ ] (also Ejer Baunehøj ) at Skanderborg in Jutland is 170.35 m, the third highest natural point in Denmark. The 51 cm higher Møllehøj is, however, only about 200 meters away and is calculated on the same ridge and measures 170.86 m. He is the highest natural elevation of the land.

Height determination

Officially, until 2004, the Yding Skovhøj ( 172.54 m) the highest peak. At the top of Yding Skovhøj However, there is a grave mounds from the Bronze Age, that is a human construction, which may not be included in the height measurement in the opinion of geodesics. Without the grave hill its precisely determined by drilling height is 170.77 m. This makes it the second highest natural elevation in Denmark.

History

The aforementioned barrow cemetery occupies the early settlement of the landscape. In the Middle Ages used the mountain at times as a signal station to transmit by dating fire or light signals news. Even in the 19th century were on the mountain top in wartime military guard, as in the German -Danish War.

The Danish National Survey took advantage of the pinnacle in the 19th century as the basis of the topographic control points network. The expulsion of the ridge as a conservation area was 1917.

The national joy of reuniting with South Jutland as a result of the plebiscite in Schleswig after the First World War led in 1920 to set a memorial stone on the mountain top.

On the first anniversary of the consecration of the monument Danish King Christian X attended the jubilee and thus attracted many thousands of visitors. A 1924 organized by the Danish National associations collection was the construction of a national monument, which could be also used as an observation tower. The Genforeningstårnet is about 13 m high and consists, according monument description of two interconnected triumphal arches. In 1975, the city of Skanderborg acquired the monument.

According to Danish tradition meet at the memorial every year on the fourth weekend in August, representatives from all regions of Denmark to celebrate the anniversary of the reunification.

A service area on the European Route 45 is located in close proximity and is named after the mountain.