It lies in the southern part of Skanderborg municipality, between the villages of Riis and Ejer.
At its summit is a 13m tall tower, built in 1924, commemorating the reunion of the south of Jutland with the rest of Denmark after the First World War.
Close to Ejer Bavnehøj lies Yding Skovhøj, another high point, with a height of 172.66m above sea level but this includes a human built Bronze Age burial mound. Without the Bronze Age mound Yding Skovhøj is a little lower than Denmark's highest non-man-made point, Møllehøj, which is 170.86m high, 51cm higher than Ejer Bavnehøj.
History
The tower of Ejer Bavnehøj
Historically Ejer Bavnehøj was mostly known as a site for a beacon where signal-fires were lit in order to warn the military and local population if the enemy were on the way.[1] The second part of the name, "Bavnehøj", can literally be translated into "Beacon Hill" (bavne meaning "beacon" and høj, from the Old Norse word haugr, meaning hill).
References
Steltzner, Knud. "Ejer Bavnehøj". Den Store Danske. Gyldendal. Retrieved 25 May 2017.
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