Germany observation tower
Schlossberg Tower
You can see 111 km from here, looking north.
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 111 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).
- 111 kmFarthest ridgelooking north
- 97%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 149Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 437 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 149 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 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 sunset20%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest8 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest6 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest8 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest8 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west8 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
Schlossberg Tower.
Observation tower near Freiburg in Breisgau
Schlossberg Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 437 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 111 km away, looking north.
149 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Grand Ballon (1,424 m), 58 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 97% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upfree entryOfficial site↗
- Hirzberg Campingcampsite · 0.9 km · 18 within 10 km
- Hotel Oberkirchplace to stay · 0.7 km · 175 within 10 km
- Freiburgnearest town · 0.7 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in FreiburgBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- EuroAirport Basel–Mulhouse–Freiburg (BSL)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 51 km in a straight lineCar hire at BSL airport (Bâle / Mulhouse)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
- 54other viewpoints within 5 kmBergfried Zähringer Burg, Ludwigshöhe, Predigerplatz, 375m and 51 more
- 23named peaks within 5 kmRosskopf, Eichkopf, Schneeberg and 20 more
- 6cable car and funicular stations within 5 kmSchlossbergbahn and 5 more
- 124marked trails within 3 kmZähringer-Wanderweg, Breisgauer Weinweg, Laufstrecke Schauinsland Berglauf and 121 more
- 137shelters and huts within 5 kmSängerruh, Obere Roßkopfstufe, Weiße Hütte and 134 more
- 741car parks within 3 km
- 8visitor centres within 5 kmDB Service Point, DB Reisezentrum, Infoladen and 5 more
- 395restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 18campsites within 10 kmHirzberg Camping, Campingplatz am Möslepark, P8-Wohnmobilstellplatz-Freiburg and 15 more
- 175places to stay within 10 kmHotel Oberkirch, City Hotel, Hotel Minerva and 172 more
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 Schlossberg Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas180 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas5 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas6 birding sites within 25 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 km
Riveryasthe river nearbyFigures 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.
Schlossberg Tower
Germany
- 69Viewyas Score
- 111 kmFarthest ridge
- 149Peaks in view
- 437 mAltitude
Feldberg
Germany · 17 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 242 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,545Peaks in view
- 1,490 mAltitude
Roßkopf Tower
Germany · 3 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 127 kmFarthest ridge
- 277Peaks in view
- 743 mAltitude
Hochfirst Tower
Germany · 26 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 206 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,338Peaks in view
- 1,197 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q317922) · 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, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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