Großer Eyberg
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The Großer Eyberg is a 513-metre-high (1,683 ft) hill in the southern Palatine Forest in Germany. It lies in the county of Südwestpfalz in the borough of Dahn in an area known as the Dahner Felsenland, a part of the Wasgau. This region which comprises the southern part of the Palatine Forest and the northern part of the Vosges Mountains. It is the highest hill in the western Wasgau.
At the summit of the Eyberg is an 18-metre-high, observation tower, of steel lattice construction, built between 1945 and 1949 by the French Army. The tower can only be accessed over unmetalled hiking trails.
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