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The Fichtelberg near Oberwiesenthal in the Erzgebirge district is, at 1214.79 m above sea level, the highest mountain in Saxony. It was also the highest mountain in East Germany (GDR). Together with the nearby Klínovec (Keilberg; 1243.7 m above sea level) on the Czech side, it forms the most important winter sports center in the Erzgebirge. Source and further information: https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fichtelberg_(Erzgebirge)

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This column testifies that the Fichtelberg was one of 158 stations of the "Central European Triangulation" in 1864. During the Royal Saxon Triangulation, the land in Saxony was surveyed between 1862 and 1890, and a trigonometric grid was created at the same time, which was intended to serve as the basis for accurate maps.

The Fichtelberg is the second-highest peak in the Ore Mountains, after Klínovec (Keilberg, 1244 meters), just four kilometers away. At 1215 meters, it is the highest mountain in Saxony and was also the highest mountain in the GDR. A new summit cross has stood on the summit plateau since May 29, 2024. Erik Schulze, the deputy mayor of Oberwiesenthal, had promised to find a replacement for the old, already rather dilapidated cross that was swept away by hurricane "Fred" on November 5, 2023, with a gust of 106.6 kilometers per hour. He made the new summit cross himself from spruce wood. The crossbeam bears the words "1215 m" and "FICHTELBERG." The inscription on the old cross read "1215 ü M Fichtelberg" on the horizontal bar, and "Glück Auf Sachsen" on the vertical bar.

The large peace bell on the Fichtelberg had to remain silent for six months in 2024. Stone throwing in May 2022 had so badly damaged the bell that its sound suffered. It was decided to stop ringing it and replace it with a new one. The old bell rang for the last time on Easter Monday 2024. Just in time for the mountain service on German Unity Day on October 3, the new bell was officially rung for the first time in the fall of 2024. The idea of using a peace bell to commemorate the peaceful revolution of 1989 in the GDR and German reunification in 1990 came from watchman Gerd Schlesinger and night watchman Jörg Eller from the Ore Mountains town of Schwarzenberg. The bell was also intended to be heard in neighboring Czechia and thus ring for a united Europe. The cast steel bell, already ninety years old at the time, was rung for the first time in 2010. The new bell was cast in Innsbruck by the Grassmayr company. At 2,700 kilograms, it is about 1,100 kilograms heavier than the old bell.

The first weather observer on this summit was the innkeeper of the Fichtelberghaus. He recorded his weather observations from 1890 onwards, but from 1898 onwards only intermittently, and from 1910 onwards not at all. The head of the Royal Saxon State Meteorological Observatory, Paul Schreiber, suggested the construction of a permanent weather observatory. Temperature, wind speed, and precipitation amounts have been continuously recorded here since January 1, 1916. The strongest storm recorded here was on January 3, 1976, with a peak gust speed of 216 kilometers per hour. The coldest day on the summit was February 9, 1956, with minus 30.4 degrees Celsius; the warmest was July 27, 1983, with plus 30.8 degrees Celsius. The highest snow cover was measured in March 1944: 3.35 meters. The year 1951 was bad for Fichtelberg tourists: it held the record for foggy days with 315.

The massif of Saxony's highest mountain, the 1,215-meter-high Fichtelberg, also includes the Kleiner Fichtelberg (also called Hinterer Fichtelberg), which is just 800 meters from the main summit. It is 1,206 meters high.