OUR BUILDING CHRONICLES
In old documents the mountain is simply called Kuppe or Koppe.
Until 1889, where big celebrations were held in Saxony
the 800th return of the imperial enfeoffment of the House of Wettin with Meissen took place. In Geising / Erzgeb. the mountain was given the name Wettinhöhe. At the same time, the mountain was crowned with a 9m observation tower on a 2m high quarry stone base. The tower was consecrated on June 16, 1889, and the Eiffel Tower was built in the same year. This was followed by a restoration
opened, "an arbor-like wooden structure standing on pillars", a hut (from Middle High German Buode for construction or building). This name originally comes from the Giant Mountains and is only found very rarely, as here in the eastern Ore Mountains, in its adjacent mountains. The use of the building was auctioned annually by the city of Geising to the highest bidder. It was only open in summer, "management with the flag up", and not every day. During the First World War, the cultivation of the mountain came to a complete standstill.  Then a massive new building with a basement was built. The dimensions corresponded roughly to today's.
The building management was no longer given annually, but generally for lease. During the inflation, the Wettinhöhe was a Paschernest (paschen = Erzgebirge: smuggling). Countless sacks of salt were carried from here at night and in fog across the border to Bohemia, as there were no deposits there.
The effort was worth it, as incredibly high tariffs were levied on salt in Bohemia, the Paschers were organized in gangs and even armed. The financiers, as the customs officers in the Ore Mountains were called earlier, were of course powerless against such organized border crime. Then things got back to order, but during the Great Depression, the traditions were remembered again, political issues were added, illegal pamphlets were putted and in 1933 the Wettinhöhe was the point of contact and overflow for some resistance members. That is why the building was then torn down, and the documents state that this was done at the "stupid instructions of a so-called customs commissioner". After the Second World War the mountain was renamed again and has been called Kohlhaukuppe ever since. This name makes sense because it connects the original name of the mountain Koppe / Kuppe with the mountain ridge behind in Bohemian. Wood was once felled there for charcoal burning. In 1952, the hut was rebuilt from parts of the barracks from the former RAD camp in Geising, and the tower was raised by 2 m in the same year because the forest had reached a height that no longer allowed a view. In 1995 the old tower was demolished after standing for 106 years.  A new steel structure was built, which is outwardly similar to the old tower. Since the forest has recovered very nicely and the trees are tall again, you have to go back to the viewing platform to enjoy the wonderful view.