Ölbergshöhe

The Ölbergshöhe is located within the Harz/Saxony-Anhalt Nature Park and is a northern spur of the granite massif of the Ramberg.It rises immediately to the south of Bad Suderode and a little to the southwest of Gernrode (both part of the borough of Quedlinburg) between the streams of the Kältetalbach to the west and the Hagentalbach to the east.A second tower, which was 12 metres (39 ft) high, stood there from 1885 to the 1940s and was used for firewood after the Second World War because it had fallen into disrepair.[2] From its observation platform at treetop level there are views of Bad Suderode, Gernrode and Ballenstedt, the Harz Foreland and Quedlinburg and Halberstadt behind it and of the Brocken, 36 kilometres (22 mi) away.A section of the E11 European long distance path from Bad Suderode to Gernrode runs over the north flanks of the Ölbergshöhe and Schwedderberg.
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