page_title: Litberg
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Litberg / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Panoramic from the Litberg in Kreis Stade Deutsch: Panoramabild vom Aussichtsturm auf dem Litberg, der höchsten Erhebung im Landkreis Stade
context_page_description: The Litberg is, at 65 metres above sea level, the highest point in the district of Stade, Germany. It lies about 2.5 kilometres south of Beckdorf in the municipality of Sauensiek. The Litberg is small hill covered with birch, pine, willow and alder, which was formed from an Ice Age moraine. It forms a protected area on the geest west of the Harburg Hills.
context_section_description: Carl Friedrich Gauss was supposed to survey the Kingdom of Hanover from 1821 onwards. He was only able to overcome the problems that arose in the North German Plain (the lack of landscape surveys) with inter alia the help of the Litberg. This survey was later commemorated on the back of the 10 Deutschmark note.
  From 1949 to 1962 sand and gravel were mined here in an open-cast mine. As a result of this several glacial erratics were uncovered . The terrain was fully recultivated when the mine closed and has been left to nature.
caption: 350° panorama from the observation tower on the Litberg in winter 2012
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