シュタイニンゲンの絶景の山頂・トップ14

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

The steep climb to the castle is quite difficult. A real calf biter! But once at the top you forget it all. Beautiful ruin and the cave is more than worth it.

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

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