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Alarmstange
Sign in to savethumb|Telecommunication towers on the Alarmstange The Alarmstange, at , is the highest point in the Montabaur Heights, a hill ride on the southwestern edge of the Westerwald. It lies near Horressen in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Together with the Köppel and the Lippersberg, the Alarmstange forms the centre of the ridge, on which is the largest contiguous woodland area in the Westerwald.
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- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Rhineland-Palatinate
- Elevation
- 545.2
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- Montabarer Hoehe.jpg
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- Telecommunication towers and survey station
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thumb|Telecommunication towers on the Alarmstange The Alarmstange, at , is the highest point in the Montabaur Heights, a hill ride on the southwestern edge of the Westerwald. It lies near Horressen in the county of Westerwaldkreis in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Together with the Köppel and the Lippersberg, the Alarmstange forms the centre of the ridge, on which is the largest contiguous woodland area in the Westerwald.
== Name == thumb|Historical trigonometric point The Alarmstange owes its name to the fact that in 1809 French soldiers built an optical signal station there. In 1853, a post was erected that acted as a trigonometric point for the surveying of the Rhineland which was begun by Jean-Joseph Tranchot and continued by Friedrich Carl Ferdinand von Müffling. From 1894 it was used for the Prussian state survey. The post was moved in 1969 by around five metres and, in its place, a granite post was erected.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alarmstange” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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