Germany observation tower
Schönberg Tower
You can see 204 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 204 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).
- 204 kmFarthest ridgelooking south-east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 321Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 782 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 321 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-west12 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febwest4 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Julnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Octwest2 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Novsouth-west12 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west10 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
Schönberg Tower.
Observation tower on Schönberg mountain near Pfullingen
Schönberg Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 782 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 204 km away, looking south-east.
321 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Kellenspitze (2,238 m), 148 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 100% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Stellplatz am Schönbergbadcampsite · 1.5 km · 6 within 10 km
- CVJM-Freizeitheimplace to stay · 2.1 km · 61 within 10 km
- Unterhausennearest town · 2.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in UnterhausenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Stuttgart Airport (STR)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 28 km in a straight lineCar hire at STR airport (Stuttgart)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
- 72other viewpoints within 5 kmGießstein, Breitenstein, Mädlesfels and 69 more
- 24named peaks within 5 kmWollenfels, Ursulahochberg, Gießstein and 21 more
- 12cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 36marked trails within 3 kmHW 5 - Schwarzwald-Schwäbische Alb-Allgäu-Weg, Burgenweg Reutlingen - Obermarchtal - Zwiefalten, Äußerer Zugangsweg Eningen - Übersberg and 33 more
- 33shelters and huts within 5 kmLudwigstraße, Hochberghütte, Arbachhuette and 30 more
- 101car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist-Info
- 30restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 6campsites within 10 kmStellplatz am Schönbergbad, Reutlinger Wohnmobilstellplatz, Wohnmobilstellplatz Waldfreibad Eningen and 3 more
- 61places to stay within 10 kmCVJM-Freizeitheim, Forellenhof Rössle, Adler and 58 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 Schönberg Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas254 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Darkskyas1 dark-sky places within 30 km
Cavernyas6 caves within 20 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.
Schönberg Tower
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 204 kmFarthest ridge
- 321Peaks in view
- 782 mAltitude
Hohe Warte
Germany · 9 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 212 kmFarthest ridge
- 573Peaks in view
- 830 mAltitude
Lemberg Tower
Germany · 48 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 228 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,110Peaks in view
- 1,020 mAltitude
Knopfmacherfelsen
Germany · 50 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 843Peaks in view
- 781 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1635504) · 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, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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