It forms a wooded ridge, which is recognisable from a long distance by its former military surveillance tower It is also the local 'house' mountain of Schönwald and Schwarzenbach an der Saale.

However, its secondary summit, the Hirschstein, has many steep, sometimes vertical, rock towers which made the location attractive to the medieval castle of the same name, of which now only a few remnants are left.

Moreover, the mountain offers other attractions for the traveller: the Gypsy Rocks (Zigeunersteine) with its logan stone (Wackelstein), and the Schönburg Watchtower (Schönburgwarte) with its good views.

In autumn 1849, a 70-foot-high (21 m) wooden tower with stone base was erected by master carpenter, Ulrich Hallmeyer from Kirchenlamitz, to assist in topographical surveys.

The surrounding club branches of Marktleuthen, Niederlamitz, Rehau, Schönwald, Schwarzenbach an der Saale, Selb and Selb-Plößberg took over the care of the tower.

In 1960 members of the Niederlamitz branch with the support of the firm of Reul-Granit a stone panorama pointer was added to the tower parapet.

On the northern path between the station of Kirchenlamitz-Ost and the Kornberg summit lies the rock castle (Felsburg) of Hirschstein (744 m above NN).

The castle[1] is one of the oldest in the Fichtelgebirge, is believed to have belonged in 1206 to Rüdiger and Utzo von Hirzberg zen Herschenstein (of the family of Hirschberg).

At that time Count Berthold of Henneberg enfeoffed the hus on the Kurnberg to the five brothers, the Hirzbergers, Herr Heinrich, Fridrich, Arnolt, Eberhart and Heymann and others.

During the Cold War it acted as a listening post, picking up military radio traffic by the land forces of the Warsaw Pact.

These were installations close to the GDR on the Hoher Meißner near Kassel (blown up in 2002) and in the North German Plain on a height of 120 m in Barwedel in Lower Saxony.