Collmberg

View from the lookout tower with a column of the Central European arc measurement

The Collmberg ( Slavic name; see Sorbian CHOLM - " hill, knoll " ) is the highest peak in the district of North Saxony. He was called up to the 19th century and Spielberg. Another former name is Oschatzer Collm. It is 312 meters above sea level high and represents a landmark in Wermsdorfer forest, 6 km west of Oschatz near the village Collm.

On the mountain a medieval ramparts is ( archaeological dating ca 900/930 ), whose history lacks any traditions. In addition to a ring wall with a diameter of 200 meters to 100 meters, which surrounds the entire dome, located at the western mountainside other three walls.

Another ramparts, the old castle, is situated between Collm and Hubertusburg.

The Collmberg was not, as is often claimed, the site of Meissen state parliament in 1198 ( " country thing "), but it was the 1000 -year-old linden tree in the village Collm that lies at its southern slope.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the reign of King Frederick Augustus I of the mountain in 1823 was chosen as the site of a national monument, where a bust of the king should be placed. As the king of the real purpose of the construction, namely the homage of his person was known, he refused.

1827, after the death of the king, an association constituted for the erection of a monument, which collected donations nationwide. As a location for the 1828 created by Ernst Rietschel monument, the royal capital of Dresden was selected.

Draft National Monument: View and floor plan

The 18 meter high tower was built in 1854 Albert and served as a lookout. In 1932 the existing geophysical observatory since 1902 Leipzig was laid on the Collmberg. 1935, the Observatory has been extended to a seismographic station.

Broadcaster

In 1960 a radio tower was built on the mountain. The 90 meters (without antenna mast 64 meters) high radio tower became known as FM stations Oschatz. Even an amateur radio station located on the mountain. In 2004, a second, 100 -meter-high radio tower was built on the Collmberg, the built in contrast to the 1960 does not have high-altitude operating rooms. The now redundant old radio tower was demolished in May 2005.

Not far from Collmberg is a Romanesque ruins, the desert castle Oster country.