Its highest point is 602 metres (1,975 ft) above sea level, making it the fourth-highest peak in the Mecsek after Zengő, Tubes and Hármas-hegy.

Due to the high costs of production and the relatively low price of uranium after the Cold War the mines were closed in the 1990s.

During the Iron Age, a huge fort was created upon the earlier encampments which became an important oppidum and political centre of the Hallstatt culture and later the Celts.

It fell into disrepair after the monastic order was outlawed by Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor in 1780.

Zsongorkő is said to gain its name from Hungarian warrior Zsongor, who lived in the time of the Ottoman occupation.

He had to leave his home-village for rightfully killing a Turkish soldier and joined the military of Royal Hungary.