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observation tower has been open to the public again. As part of the environmental restoration scheme the old refuge hut belonging to the Weißenstadt mountain rescue service was demolished despite the fact that the
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was now "behind the wire". Following the easing of military tension in Europe in the early 1990s, the US Forces left the
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to establish a warning system. As a result, he set up a network of observation posts on various mountains in the
Fichtel Mountains that in time of danger had to send beacon or smoke signals to the neighbouring posts. The Schneeberg was one of these posts. In 1520 the villagers of
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had a 35-metre-high (115 ft) wooden tower built on the mountain, the purpose of which was kept "secret". In 1942 it was razed for "unexplained reasons". On 14 November 1951
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