Collmberg
Sign in to saveCollmberg (Sorbian chołm - "Hill, mound“), regionally and colloquially called Collm, is the highest elevation in the Nordsachsen district and of the Northwest Saxon Basin, situated 6 km west of Oschatz near the small village of Collm. Until the 19th Century it was also called Spielberg and has also been known as Oschatzer Collm.
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Collmberg (Sorbian chołm - "Hill, mound“), regionally and colloquially called Collm, is the highest elevation in the Nordsachsen district and of the Northwest Saxon Basin, situated 6 km west of Oschatz near the small village of Collm. Until the 19th Century it was also called Spielberg and has also been known as Oschatzer Collm.
Its height is 312.8 metres above sea level (NHN), although map data vary between 312 m and 318 m depending on the source. Collmberg is a landmark in Wermsdorf Forest.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Collmberg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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