During the subsequent Weichselian glaciation – only about 10,000 years ago – the ice sheet could not cover the hill due to its height, it could only flow around it, and it therefore formed a nunatak.

Today the Bungsberg is a very popular viewing point, from which the Baltic Sea may be seen in good weather.

In winter the Bungsberg is Germany's most northerly skiing area and the only one in Schleswig-Holstein[1] with its own drag lift installed for the few days each year when there is enough snow cover.

A downhill run on one of the three pistes lasts about 25 seconds; the lift takes a minute and a half to haul skiers to the top.

The 250-metre-long steel cable lift with its 34 zinc pylons can in theory transport up to 600 people an hour to the summit.