This is certainly one of the most beautiful vantage points in the area. In the foreground is the horseshoe-shaped Werra loop and behind it the Hessian mountains build up. On …
Former "Kalbe opencast mine" with the "Kalbesee" and fairly evenly stepped basalt walls. Nearby is the Stinksteinwand, which you can smell from afar, depending on how the wind is.
On the summit of Bilstein a wooden lookout tower was built in 1869 and in 1890 by the forestry administration a refuge, which was later extended to an economic hall. …