List of mountains and hills of Thuringia

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Grosser Beerberg
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Grosser Inselsberg
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Gebrannter Stein
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Großer Hermannsberg
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Blessberg
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Kulpenberg
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This list of the mountains and hills of Thuringia contains a selection of the mountains and hills to be found in the German federal state of Thuringia. They are arranged alphabetically with their height given in metres (m) above sea level ( Normalnull ).

Contents

Highest mountains and hills by region

The following table lists the highest mountains and hills in each Thuringian region:

Mountain / hill

Height
(m)
Region

Regional
list
Rural/urban
district
Grosser Beerberg 982.9 Thuringian Forest List Ilm
Großer Farmdenkopf 868.7 Thuringian Highland List Sonneberg
Ellenbogen (813.2 m)
(Schnitzersberg: 815.5 m)		815.5 Rhön List Wartburg
Wetzstein 792.7 Franconian Forest List Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
Schneeberg 692.4 Little Thuringian Forest List Suhl (urban district),
Hildburghausen
Großer Gleichberg 679.0 Grabfeld List Hildburghausen
Pleß 645.4 Salzungen Werra Upland List Wartburg
Großer Ehrenberg635.3 Harz List Nordhausen
Halskappe 604.1 Reinsberge List Ilmkreis
Singer Berg 582.6 Ilm-Saale Plateau List Ilm
Goburg543.4 Gobert List Eichsfeld
Birkenberg 533.4 Ohm Hills List Eichsfeld
unnamed hill522.3 Dün List Kyffhäuser
Walleskuppe513.5 Lange Berge List Hildburghausen
Riechheimer Berg 511.8 Weimar Land List Ilm
Junkerkuppe508.9Südeichsfeld List Eichsfeld
Alter Berg493.9 Hainich List Wartburg
Kulm 481.9 Thuringian Woods List Saalfeld-Rudolstadt
Großer Ettersberg 477.8 Thuringian Basin List Weimar (urban district)
Kulpenberg 473.4 Kyffhäuser List Kyffhäuser
unnamed hill463.2 Hainleite List Kyffhäuser
Ziegenrück460.8 Bleicherode Hills List Eichsfeld
Wassenberg
420.8 Drei Gleichen List Ilm
Abtsberg413.0 Fahner Höhe
(Fahnersche Höhe)		 List Gotha
Wöllmisse 404.8 Wöllmisse List
Künzelsberg380.1 Schmücke List Sömmerda,
Kyffhäuser
Zimmerberg374.4 Windleite List Sondershausen,
Kyffhäuser
unnamed hill370.1 Hohe Schrecke List Kyffhäuser
Königskopf357.7 Alter Stolberg List Nordhausen
Stunzelberg347.9 Steigerwald List Erfurt (urban district)
Mühlberg310.4 Finne List Sömmerda

All mountains and hills in Thuringia

Name, Height, Location (district(s), region); three "???" means not yet known; please add!

Alter Stolberg

→ see below in the section on the Harz

Bleicherode Hills

→ see below in the section on the Ohm Hills

Drei Gleichen

  1. Wassenberg (Wachsenburg Castle) (421 m), Ilm district

Dün

  1. unnamed hill (522.3 m), near Keula, near Keulaer Rondell, Kyffhäuser district
  2. Hockelrain (515.4 m), near Kreuzebra, Eichsfeld district
  3. Schönberg (498.2 m), near Rehungen, Nordhausen district
  4. Heiligenberg (493.6 m), near Beuren, Eichsfeld district

Fahner Höhe (Fahnersche Höhe)

All hills are in the district of Gotha.
  1. Abtsberg (413 m)
  2. Bienstädter Berg (384 m)
  3. Bienstädter Höhe (345 m)
  4. Kirchberg (275 m)
  5. Lerchenberg (199 m)

Finne

All hills are in the district of Sömmerda.
  1. Erbsland (353.6 m), near Ostramondra
  2. Schockholzberg (347.4 m), near Ostramondra
  3. Maienberg (336.3 m), near Bachra
  4. Finnberg (332,4 m), near Burgwenden
  5. Fuchslöcherberg (329.3 m), near Ostramondra
  6. Katzenberg (321.4 m), near Ostramondra
  7. Kreuzberg (319.8 m), near Bachra
  8. Mühlberg (310.4 m), near Rastenberg

Franconian Forest

→ For these and other mountains and hills (some outside Thuringia) see the section on Mountains in the article on the Franconian Forest.

  1. Wetzstein (792,7 m), near Lehesten, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district
  2. Kulmberg (726.7 m), near Schlegel, Saale-Orla district
  3. Klößberg (664 m), near Titschendorf, Saale-Orla district

Gleichberge

→ For details see the section on mountains and hills in the article on the Gleichberge.

All mountains and hills are near Römhild in the district of Nordhausen:
  1. Großer Gleichberg (679 m)
  2. Kleiner Gleichberg (641 m)
  3. Kuppe (529 m)
  4. Schwanberg (518 m)
  5. Schwabhäuser Berg (511 m)
  6. Rother Kopf (456 m)
  7. Alterburg (430 m)
  8. Hartenburg (404 m)
  9. Eichelberg (382 m)

Gobert

All hills are located in the district of Eichsfeld
  1. Goburg (543.4 m), near Volkerode, near the border with Hesse
  2. Rachelsberg (523.4 m), northwest of Wiesenfeld
  3. Hesselkopf (504.4 m), west-northwest of Wiesenfeld
  4. Pfaffschwender Kuppe (493.6 m), southwest of Pfaffschwende
  5. Meinhard (491.3 m), between Neuerode and Kella, border with Hesse
  6. Uhlenkopf (480 m), west of Volkerode, border with Hesse
  7. Kahlenberg (460.8 m), northeast of Asbach
  8. Iberg (426.1 m), east of Asbach

Grabfeld

→ For these and other mountains and hills (including some outside Thuringia) see the section on mountains and hills in the article on Grabfeld.

  1. the Gleichberge (max. 679 m): see also the section above on the Gleichberge
  2. Dietrichsberg (536 m), near Neubrunn
  3. Großkopf (536 m), near Westenfeld
  4. Heiliger Berg (530 m), near Henneberg
  5. Ransberg (514 m), near Bibra

Hainich / Südeichsfeld

  1. Rain (516.7 m), Eichsfeld district, near Effelder
  2. Junkerkuppe (508.9 m), Eichsfeld district, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park, Höheberg
  3. Heldrastein (503 m), Wartburgkreis, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
  4. Eichstruther Kopf (503 m), Eichsfeld district, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
  5. Alter Berg (493.9 m), Wartburgkreis, Hainich National Park
  6. Hohes Rode (493.0 m)
  7. Craulaer Kreuz (483.2 m)
  8. Renn (473.2 m)
  9. Lohberg (468.2 m)
  10. Winterstein (467.6 m), Unstrut-Hainich district, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
  11. Otterbühl (465.6 m)
  12. Sommerstein (461.8 m)
  13. Alter Busch (454.7 m)
  14. Pfaffenkopf (454 m), Eichsfeld district, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
  15. Iberg (453.2 m), Eichsfeld district, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
  16. Haardt (451.3 m)
  17. Steiger (448.9 m)
  18. Lindenhecke (447 m) Wartburgkreis, Eichsfeld-Hainich-Werratal Nature Park
  19. Totenkopf (444 m), Unstrut-Hainich district, Hainich National Park
  20. Rittergasserberg (440.3 m)
  21. Wartenberg (429.9 m)
  22. Eichenberg (421.5 m), Unstrut-Hainich district, Eichsfeld- Hainich-Werratal Nature Park / Hainich National Park
  23. Mittelberg (413.3 m)
  24. Harsberg (409.7 m)
  25. Pfarrkopf (399.4 m)
  26. Burgberg (398.0 m)
  27. Schlossberg (377.0 m)
  28. Elsberg (360.5 m)

Hainleite

  1. Straußberg (463.2 m), between Straußberg and Immenrode, Kyffhäuser district
  2. unnamed hill (452,3 m), near Großlohra-Friedrichslohra, Nordhausen district
  3. unnamed hill (445.5 m), eastern foothills of the Straußberg near Großfurra, Kyffhäuser district
  4. Wolfshof (441.6 m), near Sondershausen, Kyffhäuser district
  5. Possen (431.5 m), west-northwestern foothills of the Wolfshof
  6. Löhchen (428.1 m), near Kleinberndten, Kyffhäuser district
  7. Frauenberg (411.3 m), near Sondershausen, Kyffhäuser district
  8. Kuhberg (405.8 m), near Seega, aber Gemarkung Oberbösa, Kyffhäuser district
  9. Heidelberg (403.3 m), near Hachelbich, Kyffhäuser district
  10. unnamed hill (391.0 m), near Bilzingsleben-Düppel, district Sömmerda
  11. Pfarrkopf (309.0 m), near Günserode, Kyffhäuser district
  12. Wächterberg (302,7 m), with the nearby Upper Sachsenburg, near Oldisleben-Sachsenburg, Kyffhäuser district

also:

Harz

→ For these and other mountains and hills (including those outside Thuringia) see List of mountains in the Harz .

All mountains and hills (incl. those of Alter Stolberg and Rüdigsdorf Switzerland ) are located in the district of Nordhausen.
  1. Großer Ehrenberg (635.3 m), near Rothesütte
  2. Vogelheerd (634.4 m), near Rothesütte
  3. Großer Steierberg (619.5 m), near Rothesütte
  4. Kleiner Ehrenberg (610.1 m), near Rothesütte
  5. Stierberg (602,4 m), near Rothesütte
  6. Poppenberg (600.8 m), near Ilfeld
  7. Birkenkopf (599.8 m), near Neustadt Dam
  8. Spitzer Klinz (585.1 m), near Rothesütte and Sülzhayn
  9. Dornkopf (579.0 m), near Rothesütte
  10. Krödberg (577.8 m), near Sülzhayn
  11. Langenberg (575.8 m) and Langer Berg (515.9 m), near Sülzhayn, on border with Lower Saxony
  12. Zwergsberg (570.7 m), between Netzkater and Rothesütte
  13. Bettler (569.0 m), near Neustadt Dam
  14. Giersberg (567.4 m), between Rothesütte and Netzkater
  15. Solberg (552,9 m), between Rothesütte and Netzkater
  16. Honigberg (551.8 m), near Rothesütte
  17. Kleiner Steierberg (548.9 m), near Rothesütte
  18. Stehlenberg (548.7 m), near Rothesütte and Sülzhayn
  19. Butterberg (539.5 m), between Eisfelder Talmühle station and Birkenmoor
  20. Hagenberg (538.6 m), between Netzkater and Birkenmoor
  21. Hohenstein (536.3 m), near Sülzhayn
  22. Eulenkopf (534.5 m), between Rothesütte and Netzkater
  23. Mittelberg (533.0 m), near Neustadt Dam
  24. Großer Hengstrücken (530.8 m), between Rothesütte and Netzkater
  25. Heidelberg (527.5 m), by Neustadt Dam
  26. Heiligenberg (524.7 m), near Sülzhayn
  27. Sandlünz (516.2 m), near Netzkater
  28. Kleiner Schumannsberg (512,0 m), near Haltepunkt Tiefenbachmühle
  29. Sattelkopf (510.4 m), between Rothesütte and Netzkater
  30. Kaulberg (511.7 m), near Ilfeld
  31. Steierberg (508.9 m), near Sülzhayn
  32. Kesselberg (507.0 m), near Sülzhayn
  33. Großer Schumannsberg (497.2 m), near Eisfelder Talmühle station
  34. Totenkopf (492,6 m), near Appenrode
  35. Schimmelshütchen (475.9 m), near Sülzhayn
  36. Sülzberg (464.8 m), near Sülzhayn
  37. Hegersberg (461.6 m), near Appenrode
  38. Ochsenkopf (460.3 m), near Netzkater
  39. Scharfenberg (457.6 m), near Sülzhayn
  40. Silberkopf (441.4 m), near Ilfeld
  41. Burgberg der Ruine Ebersburg (ca. 440 m), near Herrmannsacker
  42. Burgberg der Burgruine Hohnstein (402,9 m), near Neustadt
  43. Forstköpfe (402,4 m), near Werna
  44. Großer Mittelberg (400.1 m), near Ellrich
  45. Müncheberg (392,5 m), near Appenrode
  46. Zankköpfe (387.1 m), near Werna
  47. Großer Dörnsenberg (386.4 m), near Ellrich
  48. Heidberg (386.2 m), near Sülzhayn
  49. Sackberg (374.4 m), near Sülzhayn
  50. Schloßkopf (371.1 m), near Neustadt
  51. Mühlberg (363.8 m), near Appenrode
  52. Königskopf (357.7 m), near Stempeda, in Alter Stolberg
  53. Eichenberg (353.6 m), near Herrmannsacker
  54. Buchholzer Berg (350.1 m), near Buchholz, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  55. Kleiner Mittelberg (346.2 m), near Ellrich
  56. Kohnstein (334.9 m), near Nordhausen
  57. Reesberg (325.2 m), near Urbach, in Alter Stolberg
  58. Weidenberg (322,9 m), near Rüdigsdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  59. Sandkopf (317.6 m), near Appenrode
  60. Petersdorfer Berg (Harzrigi; 316.6 m), near Petersdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  61. Eichenberg (303.7 m), near Petersdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  62. Kuhberg (302,7 m), near Rüdigsdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  63. Pfennigsberg (300.3 m), near Petersdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  64. Bornberg (295.5 m), near Rüdigsdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  65. Lichte Höhe (295.5 m), near Rüdigsdorf, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  66. Zinkenberg (290.5 m), between Leimbach and Steigerthal, in Alter Stolberg
  67. Stöckey (277.8 m), near Krimderode, in the Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  68. Glockenstein (273.2 m), near Niedersachswerfen, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  69. Danielskopf (272.6 m), near Krimderode, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  70. Sichelberg (263.0 m), near Krimderode/Ellersiedlung, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  71. Brommelsberg (256.3 m), near Nordhausen, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  72. Kirchberg (252,9 m), near Niedersachswerfen, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland
  73. Kuhberg (245.4 m), near Krimderode, in Rüdigsdorf Switzerland

in addition there is the following of unknown height:

Schmücke

Thuringian Highland and Thuringian Forest

‣ Main summits are in boldface. Side-peaks are indented under the appropriate main peak.

‣ Abbreviations:

L = Lookout mountain i.e. mountaintop with good viewing point
N = North slope
R = Rennsteig i.e. summit lies near the hiking trail of Rennsteig
S = South-west slope
TH = Thuringian Highland
TF = Thuringian Forest
  1. Grosser Beerberg (982.9 m) (R/S), Ilm district, TF
  2. Schneekopf (978 m) (L/R), Ilm district, TF
  3. Grosser Finsterberg (944 m) (A/R), Ilm district, TF
  4. Grosser Inselsberg (916.5 m) (L/N/R/S), Schmalkalden-Meiningen, TF
  5. Großer Hermannsberg (867 m) (A/S), Schmalkalden-Meiningen, TF
  6. Hettstädt (808.1 m), TH
  7. Mittelberg (803.6 m), Lichte, TH, R
  8. Seimberg (803 m), Brotterode, TF
  9. Rauhhügel (801.9 m), Schmiedefeld (Lichtetal), TS
  10. Spitzer Berg (790.3 m), Lichte TH
  11. Meuselbacher Kuppe (786 m) (L), Meuselbach-Schwarzmühle, TH
  12. Apelsberg (780 m), Lichte, TH, R
  13. Mutzenberg (770 m), Lichte, TH
  14. Rückertsbiel (756 m), Lichte, TH
  15. Sauhügel (722 m), Lichte, TH
  16. Rehhecke (Thuringian Highland) (707 m), Lichte, TH
  17. Assberg (Thuringian Highland) (703 m), Lichte, TH
  18. Hopfenberg (536.1 m), Waltershausen, TF
  19. Hahnberg (686 m), Lichte, TH
  20. Milmesberg (461.2 m), Wartburgkreis district, (L) TF
  21. Ziegenberg (Thuringian Highland) (460 m), Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, TH
  22. Queste (Berg) (425 m), Schmalkalden, TF
  23. Stechberg (342 m), Wartburgkreis district, TF

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