Kleiner Winterberg, Mountain summit in Bad Schandau, Germany

Kleiner Winterberg is a 499.9 m high, little-marked elevation in the Hintere Sächsische Schweiz, in the Ostrau district, part of a massif that also includes the Affensteine and Schrammsteine rock areas. Its summit lies in the core zone of the Saxon Switzerland National Park and is closed to the public. Below the summit, a hiking path gives a view of the surrounding rock world, and 50 m below the top at 450 m stands the Winterbergpavillon.

The mountain's landscape formed over millions of years through erosion and geological processes that created the sandstone formations typical of Saxon Switzerland. Water and weather shaped these structures over long spans of time, leaving the patterns visible today throughout the region.

The name mirrors that of the Große Winterberg because both keep a closed snow cover longer and more often. The hill lies in the Gemarkung Ostrau, part of a massif that also takes in the Affensteine and Schrammsteine rock areas, about three kilometres from the village of Schmilka.

The summit itself lies in the core zone of Saxon Switzerland National Park and is closed to the public, so walkers stay on the path just below it. That trail still gives a view over the surrounding rock formations. The Winterbergpavillon stands 50 metres below the top at about 450 metres, and part of the old beech wood along the path was felled for safety.

The summit itself lies in the core zone of Saxon Switzerland National Park and is closed to the public; the views open up from the hiking path just below it. Fifty metres beneath the top, at 450 metres, stands the Winterberg Pavilion, built in 1593 as a hunting shelter. A Latin plaque there recalls Elector August of Saxony, attacked by a stag on this slope and saved by a last-moment shot.