The Großer Steinberg is a high

hill A hill is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain. It often has a distinct summit, and is usually applied to peaks which are above elevation compared to the relative landmass, though not as prominent as Mountain, mountains. Hills ...

in the south of the

Solling The Solling () is a range of hills up to high in the Weser Uplands in the German state of Lower Saxony, whose extreme southerly foothills extend into Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia. Inside Lower Saxony it is the second largest range of hill ...

range. It lies within the district of

Northeim Northeim (; ) is a town in Lower Saxony, Germany, seat of the Northeim (district), district of Northeim, with a population of 30,118 as of 31 December 2023. It lies on the German Half-Timbered House Road. History Northeim is first mentioned in ...

, in the southwestern part of the German state of

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Geography

The densely wooded hill of the Großer Steinberg is in the southern part of the

Solling-Vogler Nature Park The Solling-Vogler Nature Park () is a nature park in South Lower Saxony in Germany. It has an area of and was established in 1966. The nature park includes the hill ranges of the Solling and the Vogler but also the Burgberg which lies east ...

just under 6 km north-northeast of the town of

Uslar Uslar (; Eastphalian: ''Üsseler'') is a town and a municipality in southern Lower Saxony, Germany, in the south-western part of the district of Northeim, and in the south of the hills of Solling forest which are part of the Weser Uplands. Uslar ...

. The hill may be climbed on several paths from the villages of Meinte and Vahle north of Uslar. The summit region of the Großer Steinberg comprises two gently sloping hilltops that lie around 500 metres apart in a northwest-southeast orientation and have the following heights and

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: * Northwest hilltop (''Nordwestkuppe''): () * Southeast hilltop (''Südostkuppe''): ()

Harzblick Observation Tower

On the southern slopes of the Großer Steinberg at a height of around 430 m is the ''Harzblick'' ("Harz View")

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, which is made of wood. Originally a tower was supposed to have been erected on this hill, the Solling Tower (''Sollingturm''), but after this had been built on the neighbouring Strutberg around 4.5 km away to the west, the ''Harzblick'' was set up on the Großer Steinberg. From its viewing platform there are excellent views, for example, east to 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 ...

where the

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may be made out, south-southeast to the Gauß Tower on the Hoher Hagen in the Dransfeld Town Forest, south to the

Kaufungen Forest The Kaufungen Forest () is a range of steep, wooded hills straddling the border between the states of Hesse and Lower Saxony in central Germany. It takes its name from the town Kaufungen. The hills lie in the fork of the Rivers Fulda River, Fulda ...

and southwest to the

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in the W ...

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