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.

A vantage point on the border trail below the youth hostel was given the name Paul-Apitzsch-Blick, where a bench named after this local historian 50°23′10″N 12°30′08″E / 50.38624°N 12.50214°E / 50.38624; 12.50214 (Paul-Apitzsch-Bank) commemorates him and is one of the most important viewing points over the Saxon Vogtland.

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.