Kochersberg

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The summit of the mountain cooker with the monument in the form of a Chappe Tower

The digester is a mountain 301 meters high mountain in the field of Alsatian community Neugartheim -Ittlenheim. The surrounding fertile countryside it is also called mountain cooker.

In the Middle Ages the castle on its summit mountain cooker, which was destroyed in the 16th century and is today only a ruin.

Between 1794 and 1797 a Chappe telegraph was built on the mountain, which was until 1852 in use. The tower was part of the optical telegraph line Paris -Strasbourg. Since the end of the 20th century he is replaced by an immovable monument in the form of a Chappe - tower, which is still visible at a distance of ten miles in clear weather.

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Alsace
• Mountain under 1000 meters
• Mountain in France