Gehlberg is a village and a former municipality in Thuringia , Germany . Formerly in the district Ilm-Kreis , it is part of the town Suhl since January 2019.
3-678: The Schneekopf near Gehlberg in the Thuringian county of Ilm-Kreis is 978 m above sea level (NHN) and thus the second highest peak in the Thuringian Forest after its western neighbour, the Großer Beerberg ( 983 m ). The Adler Saddle between them is only about 59.4 metres lower than the two summits. To the east some distance away is its subpeak , the Sachsenstein ( 915 m ), to
6-832: The interior of crystals . They were formed during a volcanic eruption in the Permian . On the northern slopes of the mountain rises the Wilde Gera stream. From the summit plateau there is a good all round view of other summits in the Thuringian Forest and the Rhön mountains, over the Thuringian Basin as far as the Ettersberg near Weimar and of the winter sports resort of Oberhof . In very good visibility, for example during winter inversion weather conditions,
9-520: The south are the Teufelskreise ( 967 m ) and Fichtenkopf ( 944 m ). The Goldlauterberg ( 866 m ) further south marks the transition to the mountain of Großer Finsterberg ( 944 m ). The mountain is of volcanic origin and consists of porphyry . It is known for the Schneekopf balls ( Schneekopfkugel ), balls of porphyry ( druse ) that occur here that form agate in
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