The scattered houses, originally mountain farmhouses, are known as the Aschbergsiedlung ("Aschberg settlement").

There is a transmission mast on the mountain that transmits at the following frequencies:[citation needed] The summit lies on the Czech side of the border and consists of a small rock outcrop supporting a square-section granite column of the Royal Saxon Survey.

The view over Bublava and Klingenthal into the Elster Mountains opens up a distant view over the Bohemian and Saxon highlands towards the Slavkov Forest, the Kapellenberg and the heights of the northern Upper Palatinate Forest.

The vast forests, which had never been exploited before, provided sufficient wood for the smelting furnaces and for "liming", the extraction of potash from charcoal.

With the expulsion of the German population after the Second World War, the buildings south of the summit were dismantled.