It is part of the low hill range of the Kmehlener Berge and rises near Großkmehlen in the county of Oberspreewald-Lausitz.

The Kutschenberg is 2.5 km west-southwest of Ortrand and 1.5 kilometres south of Großkmehlen not far from the A 13 motorway to the west and within a small area of woodland in the Kmehlener Berge.

New surveys in 2000 discovered that the summit of the Kutschenberg was 201.0 m high[2] and thus the highest hill in the state of Brandenburg.

As a result, in 2011 a small granite stele was erected on its densely wooded summit that rises only slightly above its surroundings.

There is commonly held notion that the Hagelberg (200.24 m) on the Fläming Heath is the highest hill in Brandenburg, but the Kutschenberg is just a little higher.