Hohe Matze
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The Hohe Matze, also known as the ''Hohe Mätze'', is a mountain in the southern part of the
Fichtel The Fichtel Mountains (, ; ) is a mountain range in Germany and the Czech Republic. They extend from the valley of the Red Main River in northeastern Bavaria to the Karlovy Vary Region in western Czech Republic. The Fichtel Mountains contain an ...
Mountains of central Germany. It lies between Nagel and
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, and its high summit is a jumble of oval-shaped rocks. There are numerous trails through its wooded slopes. On the Hohe Matze was once supposed to have been the castle of Karlstein, but there is no record of it in historical documents. Its name, given in 1393 as ''mazen'', and later as ''meze'' or ''mätze'', translates into high German as ''Weideberg'' or "willow mountain". The watershed between the
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and the
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runs over the Hohe Matze, as does the 50th parallel and the '' Höhenweg'' walking trail.


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Photos of a climb up the Hohe Matze and the surrounding area


* ttp://www.fichtelgebirge-oberfranken.de/ Map of the whole Fichtelgebirge – including location of the Hohe Matze Mountains of the Fichtel Mountains Mountains of Bavaria Mountains under 1000 metres {{Bavaria-geo-stub