Germany observation tower
Maria-Josepha-Tower
You can see 104 km from here, looking north-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 104 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).
- 104 kmFarthest ridgelooking north-west
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 307Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 486 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 307 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 in 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 sunset20%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Augnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- 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
Maria-Josepha-Tower.
Observation tower on Totenstein mountain near Chemnitz-Grüna
Maria-Josepha-Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 486 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 104 km away, looking north-west.
307 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Klínovec (1,244 m), 50 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7 · free entry
- Campingplatz Rabensteincampsite · 2.7 km · 15 within 10 km
- Dachsbaudeplace to stay · 0.7 km · 73 within 10 km
- Limbach-Oberfrohnanearest town · 4.0 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Limbach-OberfrohnaBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Karlovy Vary Airport (KLV)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 70 km in a straight lineCar hire at LEJ airport (Schkeuditz)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
- 23other viewpoints within 5 kmHeidelbergturm, Hanneloren-Eiche, Hoppbergblick and 20 more
- 14named peaks within 5 kmLangenberger Höhe, Totenstein, Pfaffenberg and 11 more
- 24marked trails within 3 kmRabensteiner Wald Südhang, Rabenstein-Dachsbaude Grüna, Stadtwestostwanderweg and 21 more
- 54shelters and huts within 5 kmSchutzhütte am Totenstein, Schutzhütte mit Bank and 52 more
- 178car parks within 3 km
- 2visitor centres within 5 kmStadtinformation, Meldestelle Pferdesport bei Veranstaltungen
- 16restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 15campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Rabenstein, Pension am alten Rasthof, Wanderparkplatz Kohlebahnradweg and 12 more
- 73places to stay within 10 kmDachsbaude, Hotel "Bürgerhof", Landhotel Goldener Becher and 70 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 Maria-Josepha-Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas93 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas8 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Maria-Josepha-Tower
Germany
- 69Viewyas Score
- 104 kmFarthest ridge
- 307Peaks in view
- 486 mAltitude
Oberbärenburg Observation Tower
Germany · 65 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 476Peaks in view
- 750 mAltitude
Goethova vyhlídka
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- 65Viewyas Score
- 82 kmFarthest ridge
- 90Peaks in view
- 642 mAltitude
Bitterfelder Bogen
Germany · 93 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 121 kmFarthest ridge
- 263Peaks in view
- 108 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1895553) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Darkskyas, Cavernyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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