Germany observation tower
Gillerberg Observation Tower
You can see 140 km from here, looking west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 140 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 140 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 322Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 653 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 322 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are in April and from July to September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest2 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Gillerberg Observation Tower.
Observation tower near Hilchenbach
Gillerberg Observation Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 653 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 140 km away, looking west.
322 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Großer Feldberg (879 m), 85 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Wohnmobilstellplatz Gillercampsite · 0.3 km · 12 within 10 km
- Pension Bülowplace to stay · 0.8 km · 69 within 10 km
- Hilchenbachnearest town · 4.5 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in HilchenbachBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dortmund Airport (DTM)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 72 km in a straight lineCar hire at DTM airport (Dortmund)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 12other viewpoints within 5 kmGinsburg, Gillerbergturm, Gottfried-Höfer-Platz and 9 more
- 32named peaks within 5 kmAlte Burg, Homerich, Scharn and 29 more
- 29marked trails within 3 kmKeltenweg Netphen, Netphener Rundweg, X3 Talsperrenweg and 26 more
- 18shelters and huts within 5 kmSchutzhütte an der Ferndorfquelle, Beobachtungshütte Wildgehege, Pustebach-Hütte and 15 more
- 20car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist-Information Hilchenbach
- 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmWohnmobilstellplatz Giller, Wohnmobilstellplatz Zollposten, Wohnmobilstellplatz Hilchenbach and 9 more
- 69places to stay within 10 kmPension Bülow, Pension Heide, Pension Kramer and 66 more
- cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Gillerberg Observation Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas474 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas2 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas1 birding sites within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Gillerberg Observation Tower
Germany
- 75Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 322Peaks in view
- 653 mAltitude
Hochheideturm
Germany · 46 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 147 kmFarthest ridge
- 887Peaks in view
- 828 mAltitude
Schomberg Observation Tower
Germany · 32 km
- 71Viewyas Score
- 118 kmFarthest ridge
- 383Peaks in view
- 638 mAltitude
Homert-Tower
Germany · 43 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 124 kmFarthest ridge
- 332Peaks in view
- 549 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1524437) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Lakeyas, Birdyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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