ウーックスハイムの絶景の山頂・トップ17

The 699 meter high Ernstberg is the highest elevation in the Eifel after the Hohe Acht. Since the summit is covered in forest, you unfortunately don't have a clear view of the surrounding landscape of the Volcanic Eifel from up here. About 500 meters away and about 60 meters lower is the Eifel-Blick Ernstberg, which offers us a wonderful panorama in clear weather.

The Ernstberg is an old Pleistocene stratovolcano with a distinctive ring-shaped arrangement of welding slag and basalt deposits. Its summit consists of welding slag, which builds up a crater wall that is open to the east. This is where the basalt masses flowed out, forming a semicircle on the eastern slope of the mountain; from the Middle Ages until around 1930, millstones were quarried at the foot of the mountain. Source: Wikipedia

After the climb to the summit of the Ernstberg, the benches offer a well-deserved breather.

At these heights, millstones were once quarried from the basalt rock.

This cave is located at the top of the Ernstberg

Here you will find a natural bridge and small caves on the Ernstberg.

Whether hiking or by MTB, you should have been here 😎

For Ernstberg see https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernstberg Some caves are accessible for a few meters.