Pinneberg, Summit on Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Pinneberg is the highest point of the North Sea island of Heligoland, in the district of Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein, at 61.3 m above sea level. It is a few-metre rise on the rim of a crater formed in 1947 when bunkers were blown up, reached by a short footpath from the cliff-edge path.

The summit is a crater rim a few metres above the Oberland, formed in 1947 when bunker installations were blown up. Long unnamed and marked only by a survey point, it received the name Pinneberg in 1998, when hikers from Itzehoe erected an aluminium summit cross alluding to Heligoland's membership of Pinneberg district.

The name Pinneberg was proposed in 1998 by mountain-hiking enthusiasts from Itzehoe, who erected an aluminium summit cross with a summit book in a weather box; the joke refers to Heligoland's membership in Pinneberg district. In May of the same year the same group marked the highest point of neighbouring Steinburg district as Itzespitze. The island administration later adopted the name in tourism marketing, after readers of a local newspaper voted the rise the most beautiful spot in Pinneberg district in 2013.

The summit lies on Heligoland's Oberland, northwest of the town, and is reached by a short footpath from the Klippenrandweg. The nearby radar tower of the Bundeswehr dominates this part of the upper island. The ravine behind the Pinneberg is gradually being filled with excavation spoil, so the terrain there keeps changing.

The summit stayed nameless for decades and was marked only by a survey point. In 1998 mountain-walking enthusiasts from Itzehoe erected an aluminium cross here with a summit book in a weather box, naming it Pinneberg as a joke on Heligoland's belonging to the district of Pinneberg. In May of the same year the same group had marked the highest point of neighbouring Steinburg district as Itzespitze.