Germany observation tower
Rusty Nail
You can see 130 km from here, looking south-east.
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 130 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).
- 130 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 319Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 101 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 319 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-west8 min before the sea-level sunset19%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Augnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset21%
- 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
Rusty Nail.
Observation tower in Senftenberg in Brandenburg, Germany
Rusty Nail is an observation tower in Germany, 101 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 130 km away, looking south-east.
319 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Sněžka (1,603 m), 144 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 upfree entryOfficial site↗
- Marina Camping Geierswalder Seecampsite · 3.9 km · 21 within 10 km
- Pension zum Steiger Franzplace to stay · 3.9 km · 160 within 10 km
- Senftenbergnearest town · 6.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in SenftenbergBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Dresden Airport (DRS)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 49 km in a straight lineCar hire at DRS airport (Dresden)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
- 9other viewpoints within 5 kmLandmarke Lausitzer Seenland "Rostiger Nagel", Aussichtshügel and 7 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmWeißer Berg
- 3marked trails within 3 kmLausitzer Schlange 5: Niesky – Senftenberger See, Krabatweg, Senftenberger See Rundweg
- 14shelters and huts within 5 kmGrillplatz, Geierswalde and 12 more
- 5car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourismus-Information Lausitzer Seenland
- 1restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 21campsites within 10 kmMarina Camping Geierswalder See, Seecamp Geierswalde, Parkplatz Seestrand Lieske and 18 more
- 160places to stay within 10 kmPension zum Steiger Franz, Ferienhäuser Partwitzer See, Strandhotel Senftenberger See and 157 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 Rusty Nail, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas46 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas8 lakes within 15 km
Birdyas8 birding sites within 25 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Rusty Nail
Germany
- 73Viewyas Score
- 130 kmFarthest ridge
- 319Peaks in view
- 101 mAltitude
Steinitzer Treppe
Germany · 14 km
- 76Viewyas Score
- 144 kmFarthest ridge
- 446Peaks in view
- 163 mAltitude
Observation Tower at Goetzinger's Height
Germany · 58 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 89 kmFarthest ridge
- 111Peaks in view
- 425 mAltitude
Oberbärenburg Observation Tower
Germany · 86 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 138 kmFarthest ridge
- 476Peaks in view
- 750 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q63520958) · 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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