Müggelberge, Wooded hill ridge in Treptow-Köpenick, Berlin, Germany
The Müggelberge are a wooded ridge of glacial sand and till in Berlin's Treptow-Köpenick district, covering about seven square kilometres. They are dominated by the Großer Müggelberg at 114.7 m and the Kleiner Müggelberg at 88.3 m. The Großer Müggelberg holds the stump of an unfinished TV tower and a transmission mast; the Kleiner Müggelberg has the Müggelturm viewing tower.
The ridge was shaped during the ice age by glaciers advancing from Scandinavia, and its deposits come from both the Saale and the Weichsel glaciations. Because it lies isolated like an island in the Berlin glacial valley and has no outwash plain, it is not classified as a terminal moraine. In September 1846 Johann Jacob Baeyer made the first height measurement on the Großer Müggelberg, giving 114.51 m; the official figure since a 2006 survey is 114.7 m above sea level.
The name Müggelberge was formerly also written Müggelsberge. The Kanonenberge, a 70.1 m spur in the northwest, take their name from 18th-century artillery practice there, not from the AEG cartridge firing of World War I that locals heard as far as Köpenick. The Todesbahn, a built sledging run from the ridge between the two main hills down to the Teufelssee, closed in 1992 and is now used by a Köpenick downhill club.
The Müggelturm on the Kleiner Müggelberg offers a panorama reaching up to 50 km. The sand pit of the Kanonenberge lies less than 300 m from the road to the Müggelturm, its slopes now densely wooded while the floor stays largely free of trees. The former Todesbahn toboggan run, closed in 1992, is now ridden by a Köpenick downhill club.
The Großer Müggelberg, Berlin's highest natural point at 114.7 m, carries the stump of an unfinished television tower plus a transmitting mast. Johann Jacob Baeyer first measured the hill in September 1846 by trigonometric levelling, obtaining 114.51 m. A 2006 resurvey by the Treptow-Köpenick survey office confirmed 114.7 m above sea level.
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