Weifberg, Mountain summit near Sebnitz, Germany.

Weifberg is a 478 m high hill about 1.5 km north of Hinterhermsdorf, built of Lusatian granodiorite and counted scenically as part of Saxon Switzerland. On its summit stands a wooden observation tower opened in 2000, 36.9 m to the tip of its octagonal roof, with a shelter hut beside it.

Pastor Wilhelm Leberecht Götzinger recommended a visit to the then treeless Weifberg in his 1804 book on Saxon Switzerland, and the first tourists followed. In 1882 the Hinterhermsdorf mountain club planned a lookout tower but raised only 200 of the 700 marks needed. In the 1950s the border police built a watchtower on the summit that was closed to the public; the present wooden tower opened on 2 November 2000.

The name Weifberg comes from the linen weaving once practised in the area: yarn was drawn through water on reels called Weifen at the ponds at the foot of the mountain and dried in the sun. The wooden tower opened on 2 November 2000 and replaced a border-police watchtower of the 1950s.

The Weifberg is reached only on foot or by bicycle via marked trails; the shortest and best starting point is Hinterhermsdorf, about 1.5 km south of the summit. Trails also lead up from the Wachberg, the Kirnitzsch valley and Mikulášovice (Nixdorf) in the Czech Republic. The viewing platform is reached by ten flights of stairs, 173 steps in all.

The mountain is built of Lusatian granodiorite, not sandstone, and its name comes from the linen weaving once practised here: yarn was drawn through reels called Weifen in the ponds at its foot and dried in the sun. The 1882 plan for a lookout tower failed because only 200 of the 700 marks needed were raised.