Hopfenberg (Waltershausen)

Look to the rock wall stone staircase on the southern slope

The hops Mountain is a forested mountain in the Town of Walter Hausen, district Winterstein in the district of Gotha.

With a height of 536.1 m above sea level. HN is the hop mountain, the eastern boundary of the Emsetals in the municipality. The deforested most of the western and northern flank of the mountain was used in the Middle Ages for the cultivation of hops, from the mountain name derived from. The rocky southern slope of the mountain hop dominates the Sembachtal by about 125 meters. The Kilian stone located in the eastern Sembachtal remembered in the name of the Gentile conversion of the missionary Kilian. Impressive is the rock wall on the stair stone, there was occasionally a quarry, the rock was excavated by blasting in the construction of forest roads using.