The Hasselbrack, at ,
[Height of the hill according to the Geological State Office of Hamburg] is the highest point in the state of
Hamburg
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,
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.
It is located on the southern border of the city state with
Lower Saxony
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in the "Black Hills" (''Schwarze Berge''), a northern outlier of the
Harburg Hills in the quarter of
Neugraben-Fischbek. It lies within the Rosengarten State Forest close to the
Daerstorf Heath (''Daerstorfer Heide'') between the settlement of ''Waldfrieden'' in the north (which belongs to Fischbek),
Neu Wulmstorf-Tempelberg in the west and
Rosengarten-Alvesen in the east.
On the "summit" of the Hasselbrack there is a
trigonometric point, that is located in the wood just a few metres from the footpath and which marks the highest point. On 16 July 2011 a wooden
summit cross was erected here, replaced in 2013 by a summit obelisk .
References
{{Highest points of the German states
Harburg, Hamburg
Hills of Hamburg