What is "rauhhugel"

The Rauhhügel is an 812.9 m high (above sea level) mountain located in the Thuringian Highland, Thuringia ( Germany).

It is located close to the municipalities of Schmiedefeld and Lichte and the Leibis-Lichte Dam in the Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district in the Thuringian Forest Nature Park within walking distance of the Rennsteig.

Neighbouring mountains

Description

Height
above sea level

Direction

Particularity

| Mutzenberg

770.0 m

SW

Coniferous forest

| Spitzer Berg

790.3 m

W NW

Coniferous forest

| Rehhecke

707.0 m

NW

Coniferous forest

| Assberg

703.0 m

N NE

The Leipzig tower on top of the Rauhhügel is 17.5 m high. It has viewing platforms on two levels, the upper at 14 m, from which in good weather one can see far into the surrounding mountains of the Thuringian Highland, the Thuringian Forest and to mountains of the Fichtelgebirge and the Erzgebirge, including:

• Neuhaus am Rennweg (830 m)
• Ochsenkopf, (1.024 m) Fichtelgebirge
• Schneekopf, (1.051 m) Fichtelgebirge
• Fichtelberg, (1.214 m) Erzgebirge

There is a guesthouse at the base of the tower.