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- Belgian border runs 60 meters from the mountaintop. The closest borderpoint near the summit is also the highest point in the municipal region of Aachen.

Location

The Steling is located on the western edge of the

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. At its southern foot lies Mützenich, a quarter of Monschau. On its northern slopes is the source region of the River Weser, which flows through the Weser Dam near

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and into the Ourthe.

Climate

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to the south and west benefit from the Steling, because the summit causes moist Atlantic winds to release their rainfall on the mountain.

Tourism and information

About 700 metres southwest of the highest point on the mountain is a tourist attraction: the striking quartzite rocks known as Emperor Charles' Bed (''Kaiser Karls Bettstatt''). On the mountain and its surrounding pastures may be seen field hedges of

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, typical of the Monschau Hedge Land, which are used to enclose the grazing pastures and hay meadows. From the top of the Steling there is an extensive overview of the North Eifel and, in good visibility, visitors can see as far as the Siebengebirge near

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and

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. On the Steling there is a private weather station for the Rureifel and Monschau region, whose services are used by the surrounding villages.

References

External links

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The Steling at Eifel-Blicke

Eifelwetter.de Communal weather in the Rureifel
Mountains under 1000 metres Monschau Mountains and hills of the Eifel Mountains and hills of North Rhine-Westphalia Geography of Liège Province