Bröhn
Highest hill in the Deister range in the German state of Lower Saxony
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::summary Highest hill in the Deister range in the German state of Lower Saxony ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | |
| photo | Annaturm.jpg |
| photo_caption | The Anna Tower (Annaturm), woodland inn of the same name shown in foreground |
| elevation | (405.0 m) |
| isolation | 10.8 km → |
| prominence | 264 m → |
| range | Deister |
| location | Lower Saxony, Germany |
| map | Germany Lower Saxony |
| coordinates | |
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| name = | photo = Annaturm.jpg | photo_caption = The Anna Tower (Annaturm), woodland inn of the same name shown in foreground | elevation = (405.0 m) | elevation_ref = | isolation = 10.8 km → | isolation_ref = | prominence = 264 m → | prominence_ref = | range = Deister | location = Lower Saxony, Germany | map = Germany Lower Saxony | map_image = | coordinates = | range_coordinates = | coordinates_ref = The **** is the highest hill in the range in the German state of Lower Saxony, reaching 405 m. It owes its name to the broom (Besenginster, but formerly known as Bröm or Bram) growing here. The highest point of the hill is close to the an observation tower on the territory of the town of close to the boundary of the municipality of .
Height
At 405.0 m above (a former German sea level definition), the is the highest hill in the , and the highest hill on the extreme northern rim of the German Central Uplands.
Observation tower
On the summit of the stands the Anna Tower (), a 28 m microwave tower made of reinforced concrete, the fifth successor to the original survey tower that was built on this spot at the instigation of in 1834. in fair weather, the view over the Calenberg Land reaches as far as and Hanover, to Lake Steinhude, and also over the northern Weser Uplands.
Next to the Anna Tower is a woodland inn of the same name. The Anna Tower is about 3 km from the car park on the . It is also about 3 km from (via the car park towards ). The Anna Tower is open between 10am and 5pm every day except Mondays.
Not far from the , on the (395 m), is a tower belonging to , Germany's air traffic control company, with a radar site. Each of the six SRE-M sites across the country has a range of about 145 nmi. In the vicinity on the crest of the are other flight safety installations.
In the 1950s there was an air traffic control centre of the ('Federal Aviation Agency'). At 11am on a September day in 1958 an F-84 Thunderjet fighter of the Danish Air Force crashed about 300 m east of the control centre. The aeroplane grazed several treetops over a distance of some 500 m before exploding. The 24-year-old pilot, , died in the crash. He had taken off with his squadron from Copenhagen and his destination was the air base near . In fog, he lost his bearings and sent his last position report at a height of 250 m over .
References
References
- (2008-09-24). "Vor 50 Jahren". {{ill.
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