Denmark's highest point

Our first (and hopefully not the last) summer weekend we spent with two very nice people Paul and Kasia, travelling around to get a better taste of Danish nature :D

Viking Center in Fyrkat:

 

And we also visited the highest and the third high point in Denmark!!!

Ejer Baunehøj the highest (almost) natural (not the tower :-)) point in Denmark, 170.89 m above sea level!!! 

Until 1847 people thought that Himmelbjerget (147m, image below) was the highest point in Denmark. At that time Ejer Baunehøj was declared to be higher, and in 1874 it was measured to be 170.95m a.s.l. Nevertheless in the middle of the 1900's, Yding Skovhøj, only 3 km away, was declared to be even higher. In 1953 the Danish authorities finally decided  that a burial mound on Yding Skovhøj from the bronze age didn't count :-) That reduced Yding Skovhøj height to only 170.89 m  (6 cm less than Ejer Baunehøj!). 

Finally in 2005 Denmark’s National Geographical Survey determined that Denmark’s highest point (170.86m) is .... located only 200m west of Ejer Bavnehøj on an ordinary field belonging to a farmer. There is only a minor slope between the two tops and according to the international principle of primary factors they are defined as one complete top.

Anyway, the third highest top, Himmelbjerget (below), is much nicer to visit and it somehow feels much higher than its 147m :-)

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