The Silberberg is a low hill, 74 metres high, in the Wingst

Wingst (ridge)

The Wingst is a ridge, up to 74 metres high, in northern Lower Saxony, Germany.- Geography :The ridge is located in northeast part of the district of Cuxhaven, just a few kilometres south of the mouth of the River Elbe on the North Sea coast, and west of the lower reaches of the Oste between...

 ridge in the district of Cuxhaven in the north German state of Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony

Lower Saxony is a German state situated in north-western Germany and is second in area and fourth in population among the sixteen states of Germany...

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It is the highest natural elevation in the Elbe-Weser Triangle

Elbe-Weser Triangle

The region between Bremen , Hamburg and Cuxhaven forms the Elbe-Weser Triangle in northern Germany. It is also colloquially referred to as the Nasses Dreieck or "Wet Triangle"...

, but is overshadowed by the observation tower of the nearby hill of Deutscher Olymp

Deutscher Olymp

The Deutscher Olymp is a 61 metre high elevation on the Wingst ridge in the district of Cuxhaven in the German state of Lower Saxony.The Deutscher Olymp was formed from an ice age moraine...

. It was formed from an ice age

Ice age

An ice age or, more precisely, glacial age, is a generic geological period of long-term reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers...

 moraine

Moraine

A moraine is any glacially formed accumulation of unconsolidated glacial debris which can occur in currently glaciated and formerly glaciated regions, such as those areas acted upon by a past glacial maximum. This debris may have been plucked off a valley floor as a glacier advanced or it may have...

. There used to be a small silver mine here which gave the hill its name.