Germany observation tower
Schänzel Tower
You can see 171 km from here, looking south.
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 171 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).
- 171 kmFarthest ridgelooking south
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 425Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 615 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 425 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-west2 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset37%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Augnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset36%
- Sepwest2 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west4 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
Schänzel Tower.
Observation tower near Edenkoben, Germany
Schänzel Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 615 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 171 km away, looking south.
425 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Großer Feldberg (879 m), 108 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 upHours in OpenStreetMap: 24/7
- Trekking Pfalz: Heldensteincampsite · 0.6 km · 63 within 10 km
- Naturfreundehaus Lambrecht im Kohlbachtalplace to stay · 4.0 km · 187 within 10 km
- Rambergnearest town · 4.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in RambergBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Mannheim-City Airport (MHG)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 40 km in a straight lineCar hire at FKB airport (Rheinmünster)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
- 37other viewpoints within 5 kmGalgenberg, Schöner Punkt, Südhang Blättersberg and 34 more
- 45named peaks within 5 kmTaubenkopf, Kalmit, Platte and 42 more
- 2cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmRietburgbahn Talstation, Rietburgbahn Bergstation
- 39marked trails within 3 kmPfälzerwald Roter Punkt, Saar-Pfalz-Weg, Pfälzerwald Blau-Weißer Balken and 36 more
- 35shelters and huts within 5 kmAm Barebäm, Hüttenberghütte, Hesselbachhütte and 32 more
- 19car parks within 3 km
- 8restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 63campsites within 10 kmTrekking Pfalz: Heldenstein, Trekking Pfalz: Kalmit, Wohnmobilstellplatz Kalmithöhenstraße - Maikammer and 60 more
- 187places to stay within 10 kmNaturfreundehaus Lambrecht im Kohlbachtal, Landhaus Magnus, Wiedemann's Weinhotel and 184 more
- visitor centres 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 Schänzel Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas431 mountains within 25 km
Birdyas5 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.
Schänzel Tower
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 425Peaks in view
- 615 mAltitude
Ludwigs Tower
Germany · 4 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 168 kmFarthest ridge
- 418Peaks in view
- 609 mAltitude
Eschkopf tower
Germany · 13 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 385Peaks in view
- 612 mAltitude
Rehberg tower
Germany · 14 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 390Peaks in view
- 569 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1694664) · 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 |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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