In older documents the mountain was just called Kuppe or Koppe which means "dome-shaped hill".

When, in 1889, the House of Wettin celebrated its 800th anniversary and numerous festive events were held in the Kingdom of Saxony, the mountain was renamed the Wettinhöhe ("Wetten Heights") and a nine-metre-high (30 ft), iron observation tower was built on the summit.

In that year the mountain guesthouse was demolished at the behest of a customs inspector (Zollkommissar), because inter alia illegal leaflets had been distributed here.

It holds evenings of "Myths and Magic" (Sagen und Magie).

From there two well-signed hiking trails run to the summit, either along the road or up a steeper, but shorter option uphill from the Anton Günther Stein.