Napoleon's Hill was created in 1808 by the French soldiers of Szczecin, who had decided to celebrate the thirty-ninth anniversary of Napoleon I. The mound was erected close to the camp where 12,000 soldiers were stationed. On the day of the French emperor's birthday (15 August 1808), a celebration with a military parade took place there and ended with a Bengal fire. A column with a bust of Napoleon I was then erected at the summit of the mound.
In 1814, the Prussians, who had regained control of Stettin, renamed the hill Deutscher Berg (German hill), removed the bust of Napoleon I and erected in its place a cast-iron column surmounted by the Iron Cross. A plaque dedicated to the German soldiers killed in 1813-15 was placed beside the column, which was surrounded by a cast-iron chain stretched between four cannons driven vertically into the ground.
After the Second World War, the original name of the hill was restored, but it is not very well known to the inhabitants of Szczecin. The only thing preserved at the summit of the hill is a cast-iron column dating from the Prussian era, while the head of the column and the fence did not survive. The summit of the hill is today wooded.