Pariner Berg, Mountain summit in Bad Schwartau, Germany.
Pariner Berg is a mountain summit in Bad Schwartau that rises above the Ostholstein landscape and offers viewing points. From here, visitors can look out over fields and meadows to church towers of Lübeck visible in the distance.
The hill was the site of a windmill, and during the Second World War a forced-labour camp, the Zwangsarbeiterlager Pariner Berg, was housed in it; the last surviving building is now used as a dwelling. The 12.8-metre Bismarck column on the summit was built around 1901/1902 as an observation tower. Halfway between Groß Parin and the column stands a memorial to the dead of both world wars.
The hill's name comes from Groß Parin, the village at its foot in Schleswig-Holstein. The 12.8-metre Bismarck column built around 1901/1902 now serves as a lookout tower, and walkers use the path between Groß Parin and the column, passing a memorial to the dead of both world wars about halfway up.
The hill lies about ten kilometres as the crow flies from Lübeck's old town, in Groß Parin within the Bad Schwartau area. The 12.8-metre Bismarck column on top serves as a lookout tower; from it you can see as far as Lübeck, Neustadt and the Lübeck Bay. A memorial to the dead of both world wars stands about halfway between Groß Parin and the column.
The tower on the summit is a Bismarck column, not a monument: it was built around 1901/1902 and stands 12.8 metres tall. From its top the view reaches Lübeck, Neustadt, the Lübeck Bay and the Holstein Switzerland hills. Until early June 2015 a Lübeck radio beacon (LUB) for air traffic stood about halfway between Klein Parin and the column.
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