Ehrenberg (Ilmenau)

Summit cross on the Ehrenberg

Forest floor after the fire of 22 July 2006bdep2

The Ehrenberg is 528 m above sea level. NHN high mountain east of Ilmenau and west of Long meadows in Thuringia.

It is located about 500 meters north of the Ilm, whose valley he falls steeply ( about 70 meters). Here the Ilm is a breakthrough from the Ilmenau valley, as there is against the Ehrenberg supporting mountain. Between the two mountains, the Ilm valley is very narrow. About the tip of Ehrenberg's the municipal boundary between Ilmenau and Long Meadow, which was the border between Saxony -Weimar -Eisenach and Black -Sonderhausen to 1920 runs.

Today, a small pine grove has remained only on the top of the hill, its slopes have been cleared in the last 100 years gradually. The west side of Ehrenberg is now the territory of the campus of the Technical University of Ilmenau, bearing the name of Hans strain - campus since 1998. The first high school building built here in 1955, when Hans Stamm was rector of that university. In addition to numerous university buildings are located at the Ehrenberg and the Federal Institute for IT services, the industrial area " Werner -von- Siemens-Straße Ilmenau " and the industrial area " Ehrenberg East" Long meadows.

In the 18th and 19th centuries the Ehrenberg also attracted poets who enjoyed it from here to view at sunset over the then small town. Even today testifies to a memorial stone at the gag view, named after the German poet Karl Ludwig von Knebel said to have gladly lingers here.

The summit cross on the Ehrenberg was set up in the former GDR in a cloak-and -dagger operation by students of the Catholic student community. The SED regime never attempted to dismantle the cross. 2004, it fell by weather damage collapsed and was subsequently renewed by the Catholic student community again.

On July 22, 2006, there was on the Ehrenberg to a forest fire that was triggered by the extreme drought of the previous weeks and burned at the approximately 6000 m² fields, meadows and forest. Major damage was not directed at the fire but.

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Thuringia
• Mountain under 1000 meters
• Mountain in Ilm-Kreis
• Technical University of Ilmenau
• Long meadows