Germany observation tower
Gehrenberg Tower
You can see 171 km from here, looking south-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 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-west
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1,671Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 702 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1,671 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 sunset22%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Marwest4 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Aprwest4 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Maynorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Julnorth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset41%
- Augwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Sepwest4 min before the sea-level sunset40%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Novsouth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- 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
Gehrenberg Tower.
Observation tower on Gehrenberg mountain near Wittenhofen
Gehrenberg Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 702 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 171 km away, looking south-west.
1,671 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Säntis (2,501 m), 54 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from July to September.
Get there and stay
- Going upHours in OpenStreetMap: sunrise-sunset · free entry
- Campingplatz Fischbachcampsite · 7.5 km · 28 within 10 km
- Gäschte-Neschtplace to stay · 7.2 km · 483 within 10 km
- Markdorfnearest town · 2.1 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in MarkdorfBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Bodensee Airport Friedrichshafen (FDH)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 11 km in a straight lineCar hire at FDH airport (Friedrichshafen)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
- 14other viewpoints within 5 kmHepbacher Ried, Historischer Wasserspeicher, Erdrutsch and 11 more
- 18named peaks within 5 kmGehrenberg, Lipbacher Drumlin, Lobbühl and 15 more
- 27marked trails within 3 kmJubiläumsweg Bodenseekreis, HW 7 - Schwäbische-Alb-Oberschwaben-Weg, Wanderwege Markdorf: Vogelweg and 24 more
- 62shelters and huts within 5 kmGehrenbergturm, Falkensteinhütte and 60 more
- 141car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist-Information
- 20restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 28campsites within 10 kmCampingplatz Fischbach, Dreher Hof, Camping Schloss Helmsdorf and 25 more
- 483places to stay within 10 kmGäschte-Nescht, Hotel Maier, Hotel Traube am See and 480 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 Gehrenberg Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas97 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas1 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas1 forests and trees within 15 km
Cascadyas1 waterfalls within 15 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.
Gehrenberg Tower
Germany
- 77Viewyas Score
- 171 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,671Peaks in view
- 702 mAltitude
Hochberg
Germany · 28 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 132 kmFarthest ridge
- 627Peaks in view
- 580 mAltitude
Wachbühl
Germany · 45 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 199 kmFarthest ridge
- 1,496Peaks in view
- 786 mAltitude
Knopfmacherfelsen
Germany · 47 km
- 75Viewyas Score
- 158 kmFarthest ridge
- 843Peaks in view
- 781 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q7886327) · 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, Forestyas, Birdyas, Cascadyas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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