The Mackenröder Spitze, at about , is the highest hill in the Göttingen Forest

Göttingen Forest

The Göttingen Forest is a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands that is up to 427.5 metres high. It forms part of the Lower Saxon Hills in South Lower Saxony.- Geography :...

 and lies on the boundary of the town

Göttingen

Göttingen is a university town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the capital of the district of Göttingen. The Leine river runs through the town. In 2006 the population was 129,686.-General information:...

 and district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony

South Lower Saxony

South Lower Saxony refers to the southern part of the German federal state of Lower Saxony. The region so described is neither historically nor geographically clearly defined to the north within Lower Saxony...

 in Germany.

Geography

The heavily forested hill is located on the eastern escarpment

Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that occurs from erosion or faulting and separates two relatively level areas of differing elevations.-Description and variants:...

 of the Göttingen Forest, a southern part of the Leine Uplands

Leine Uplands

The Leine Uplands is a region in Germany's Central Uplands which forms a part of the Lower Saxon Hills and lies along the River Leine between Göttingen and Hanover...

, just under 1 kilometre northwest of Mackenrode, a village in the southwest of the parish of Landolfshausen

Landolfshausen

Landolfshausen is a municipality in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany.-See also:*Falkenhagen-External links:* *...

. The hill may be ascended on a steep path from Mackenrode.

Harzblick observation tower

Just under 400 metres north of the Mackenröder Spitze and about 1.6 kilometers northwest of Mackenrode stands the Harzblick observation tower at a height of 425 metres. The tower used to stand next to the forest inn at the summit of the Mackenröder Spitze, but due to the construction of a miitary base in the 1970s it was moved to its present location.

From its viewing platform there are good long-distance views. To the northeast the Harz Mountains and their highest peak, the Brocken, may be seen; to the east is Untereichsfeld and the Seeburger See

Seeburger See

Seeburger See is a lake in the karst region of Lower Eichsfeld, Landkreis Göttingen, in southeastern Lower Saxony, Germany.Also known as the Auge des Eichsfelds der grosser See bei Bernshausen , the shallow 86.5-hectare lake is fed in the west by the Aue creek at Seeburg and drained to the east...

, southeast are the Ohm Hills, looking south the Hoher Meißner

Hoher Meißner

Hoher Meissner is a mountain massif with a height of 753.6 m and is located in the Meissner Kaufunger nature park in Hesse, Germany.-Geography:...

 can be seen beyond Die Gleichen

Die Gleichen

Die Gleichen are a pair of hills, up to 430 metres high, in the district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony in Germany.The twin hills, that were once the site of two fortifications, gave their name to the village of Gleichen.- Geography :...

, to the southwest lies the Kaufungen Forest, west-southwest is the Gauß Tower on the Hoher Hagen

Hoher Hagen (Dransfeld)

The Hoher Hagen is a volcanic hill that is still high today, in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest, in the German district of Göttingen in South Lower Saxony.- Geography :...

 in the Dransfeld Municipal Forest

Dransfeld Municipal Forest

The Dransfeld Municipal Forest is a ridge in Germany's Central Uplands that is up to high. It is located in the district of Göttingen, in South Lower Saxony....

, and to the northwest is the Solling

Solling

The Solling is a range of hills up to high in the Weser Uplands in the German state of Lower Saxony, whose extreme southerly foothills extend into Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia....

.