Wirtsberg

Observation tower and Triangulierungssäule on the Wirtenberg

The host mountain ( 664 m) is a mountain in the Vogtland district Markneukirchner Landwüst.

Location

He is as treeless height southeast of Landwüst in Elstergebirge. Its highest point is only about 200 meters from the land Wüster church and wearing a lookout, which is named because of its peculiar shape popularly known as " lemon squeezer ". Also located on the top of a pillar of the Royal Saxon triangulation of 1876.

View

From Wirtenberg one has an impressive view over the Upper Vogtland and adjacent areas. In the northeast Schoeneck, the High fire, the keel and the Aschberg are seen. Further east, follow the Landesgemeindetal at Erlbach and already in the Czech Republic the rocks of the Hohenstein ( czech Vysoký kámen ). To the south you look into the Eger Basin and to the west of Chapel Hill and the lookout tower on the Hainberg ( Czech Haj u Aše ) can be seen.

History

An old road from Adorf to Eger ran through Landwüst the host mountain pass to Rohrbach, now part of Bad Bramstedt. South of Landwüst can be found on this street the " Sweden 's Lair", a defense system which probably dates from the time of the Smalcald War and was reinforced in 1632 during the Thirty Years' War.

Way to the summit

The host mountain can be reached from a parking lot on the land Wüster church on increasing foot in less than five minutes.