Ebersnacken is a hill in

Kirchbrak Kirchbrak is a municipality in the district of Holzminden, in Lower Saxony, Germany. The municipality lies only a few kilometers east of Bodenwerder. Through Kirchbrak flows a small river called Lenne, a tributary of the Weser. It consists ...

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, Germany. It is the highest

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in the forested uplands of the

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, reaching above

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. The hill is situated in the district of

Holzminden Holzminden (; ) is a town in southern Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Holzminden (district), Holzminden. It is located on the river Weser, which at this point forms the border with the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. ...

about half the distance between

Bodenwerder The ''Münchhausenstadt'' Bodenwerder is a municipality in Holzminden district, Lower Saxony, Germany. It lies on the river Weser and is best known as the birthplace and residence of Baron von Münchhausen. Geography Bodenwerder is located in ...

to the northwest and

Stadtoldendorf Stadtoldendorf is a town in the center of the Holzminden district, Lower Saxony, Germany. Stadtoldendorf is the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde A (, ; plural: ''Samtgemeinden'') is a type of administrative division in Lower Saxony, Germany. ''Sam ...

to the southeast

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. No roads lead to Ebersnacken; it can only be reached on

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, for example from the

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to the southeast.

Ebersnacken Tower

At the hill's highest point stands an

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, the Ebersnacken Tower (''Ebersnackenturm''). First built in 1890, it was later expanded into a 13-meter-high wooden structure. After collapsing in 1946, the tower was rebuilt in 1960, renovated in 1990, and restored again in 2000. The tower is tall and on a clear day one can see the as far as the

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near

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westward and eastward to

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and the

Harz mountains The Harz (), also called the Harz Mountains, is a Mittelgebirge, highland area in northern Germany. It has the highest elevations for that region, and its rugged terrain extends across parts of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia. The nam ...

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