Carlshaushöhe

New Carl House Tower

Carl house height ( also called Karl house height ) in the resin is a 626.3 m high mountain in the city of Upper am Brocken in the Harz district, Saxony -Anhalt ( Germany ).

Geographical location

Carl house height is in the Lower Harz Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt. It rises south-west of Hasselfelde between Traut stone in the north, the west and the Benneckenstein located in Thuringia Sophienhof (part of Harztor ) in the south.

Carl house tower

Near the mountain peak stands - about 250 m southwest of the old forest Carl House ( also called Charles House, . Approximately 599 m above sea level ) - the Carl House Tower ( also Karl -rise tower or Carl storm called ).

The tower, which serves as a radio and observation tower, was erected in open steel construction and inaugurated on 27 July 1998. He is about 50 m high.

The Carl House tower serves as a radio tower of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways (HSB ), passing lead from the two line sections a few miles south and east of the tower, as well as an observation tower. It replaces the 1901 built and 1981 demolished by the Soviet army Bismarck tower Hasselfelde- Traut stone, which was also carried out in an open steel structure, was about 20 m high and was crowned by a circular observation deck.

From situated at about 30 m tower height observation deck, which can be reached via 155 steps and is located above the treetops, you can enjoy the panoramic view, for example, on the high altitudes of the resin. So one looks, among other things to the Brocken, in the Harz mountains and Kyffhaeuser.

Transport links and walking

The Carl House level rises between the federal highways 242 ( in the north), 81 ( East) and 4 ( southwest) and the Harz Railway in the south and west. The mountain can hiking trails that lead to raised on these streets or its side streets and parking pass to Carl House Tower, will be investigated. The tower is included as No. 51 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin.