page_title: Großer Finsterberg
section_title: View
hierarchical_section_title: Großer Finsterberg / View
caption_attribution_description: English: Germany, Thuringia, District "Ilmkreis" - Finsterberg near Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, refuge Deutsch: Deutschland, Thüringen, Ilmkreis - Finsterberg nahe Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig, Schutzhütte auf der Nordseite
context_page_description: The Großer Finsterberg is a mountain, 944.1 m above NHN, in the Thuringian Forest not far from the villages of Stützerbach and Schmiedefeld am Rennsteig. It is the third highest peak in the German state of Thuringia.
context_section_description: Between 1999 or 2001 and 2017 or 2018, a wooden observation platform stood at the summit of the Großer Finsterberg.  As of  June 2018, there are plans to reinstate the tower.  The original tower gave views of the Kickelhahn, the Ringberg on the Adlersberg near Suhl, the Dolmar near Meiningen and the only two mountains in Thuringia that are higher — the Großer Beerberg (983 m) and the Schneekopf (978 m) — below whose summits the Schmücke may also be seen. On the east side there is a small hut with another observation point.
caption: Refuge hut on the Finsterberg
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