Kulpenberg

TV Tower Kulpenberg on the Kulpenberg

The Kulpenberg ( Kulpe = round, blunt end ) is 473.6 m above sea level. Sea level, the highest point of the mountain range, close Kyffhaeuser Rathsfeld in Kyffhauserkreis in Thuringia. He wears a flat, rounded tip of a little more than 20 m height.

Geographical location

The Kulpenberg is located in the central part of the Kyffhaeuser Mountains in the Natural Park Kyffhaeuser. It is located between the at the core city of Kelbra ( district of Mansfeld - South Harz ) old castle ruins of Rothenburg in the northwest and Rathsfeld, a district of Steinthaleben, the south and the Kyffhäuserdenkmal in the east. Just north to east over the mountains leads the federal road 85

Description

The Kulpenberg wore as a trigonometric point first order a 3.7 m high sandstone pillar with the inscription " Royal. Prussian Landestriangulation 1879 " topped by a built wooden viewing platform. Since the closed high forest prevented any view of the platform, the mountain 94 m high TV tower was built Kulpenberg until the opening of the 1959-1964 near the sandstone pillar and uncrowded with two viewing platforms. The sandstone column was restored in 1879 on the occasion of the 120-year anniversary of the Royal Prussian triangulation by the Thuringian Land Survey Office in 1999.