Großer Finsterberg
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View from Kalter Staudenkopf (768 m) of the Großer (944 m, half right) and Kleiner (875 m, right) Finsterberg. Half left is the Schneekopf (978 m) and its subpeak, the Teufelskreise (967 m, in front) with the Schmücke (just below, pasture) and Fichtenkopf (944 m, to its left). The pasture below lies at the foot of the Großer Eisenberg (907 m, on the left, hidden). In the central foreground is the Volkmarskopf (726 m).
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| Highest point | |
| Elevation | 944.1 m above sea level (NHN) (3,097 ft) |
| Prominence | 122 m ↓ Mordfleck |
| Isolation | 3.8 km → Teufelskreis (Schneekopf) |
| Coordinates | 50°38′17″N 10°48′06″E / 50.63806°N 10.80167°ECoordinates: 50°38′17″N 10°48′06″E / 50.63806°N 10.80167°E |
| Geography | |
| Parent range | Thuringian Forest |
| Climbing | |
| Normal route | Along the L 2615 between Schmiedefeld/R. and Oberhof |
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The Großer Finsterberg is a mountain, 944.1 m above NHN, in the Thuringian Forest not far from the villages of Stützerbach and Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig. It is the third highest peak in the German state of Thuringia.
The volcanic origin of the Großer Finsterberg may be seen clearly from the conical shape of its summit, which tilts markedly towards the west.
Apart from the summit plateau, the mountain is completely covered by a nearly natural cotton and reed grass spruce woodland; in most places there is no shrub layer. On the plateau a special mountain pasture vegetation has formed with baldmoney, veronica and St. John's wort.
One kilometre away to the north-northeast is its smaller brother, the Kleiner Finsterberg or Finsterberger Köpfchen (875 m). Two less spectacular eastern subpeaks, 2 to 3 kilometres distant both bear the name Rosenkopf (728 m and 673 m). To the west, northwest and north the Finsterberg is bounded by the Freibach and, to the southeast, by the Taubach, both headstreams of the Ilm.
Two kilometres to the southwest and separated by the Rennsteig (ca. 800 metres away), is the Großer Eisenberg (907 m). To the northwest, four to five kilometres away, are the two main summits of the range, the Schneekopf (978 m) and the Großer Beerberg (983 m), both of which are higher than the Finsterberg.
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