Helpt Hills

The Helpt Hills are the highest natural elevation in the northeast German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern reaching a maximum height of 179.2m above sea level . The hills are a terminal moraine formed during the Pomeranian stadium of the Weichselian glaciation and were named after the village of Helpt on their northern slopes.The ridge, which is part of a relatively short hill chain running from southwest to northeast, is located in the east of the aforementioned German state in the district of Mecklenburgische Seenplatte about 24km -east of Neubrandenburg, 3km north of Woldegk and 25km west of Strasburg.About 580m southwest of the highest point of the Helpt Hills is the Helpterberg Television Tower which is about 155m high and not accessible to the public. Other transmission installations have been built not far to the north-northeast of the tower.