Germany observation tower
Kaiser Tower
You can see 99 km from here, looking 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 99 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).
- 99 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 99%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 68Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 474 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 68 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 in 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-west26 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Febsouth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset25%
- Marwest22 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Aprwest10 min before the sea-level sunset38%
- Maynorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Junnorth-west4 min before the sea-level sunset31%
- Julnorth-west2 min before the sea-level sunset32%
- Augwest10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Sepwest16 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest24 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Novsouth-west28 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Decsouth-west22 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
Kaiser Tower.
Observation tower near Wernigerode
Kaiser Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 474 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 99 km away, looking east.
68 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Brocken (1,141 m), 12 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 99% of the circle.
The skies are clearest in April and in September.
Get there and stay
- Going upfree entry
- Alte Waldmühlecampsite · 2.3 km · 9 within 10 km
- Fürstenhofplace to stay · 1.5 km · 294 within 10 km
- Wernigerodenearest town · 2.2 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in WernigerodeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Erfurt-Weimar Airport (ERF)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 94 km in a straight lineCar hire at HAJ airport (Hannover)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
- 47other viewpoints within 5 kmScharfenstein, Peterstein, Wernigeröder Fenster and 44 more
- 88named peaks within 5 kmOttofels, Amelungskopf, Markhardtberg and 85 more
- 1cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 35marked trails within 3 kmHauptwanderweg Eisenach – Wernigerode (blaues Andreaskreuz), Harzquerung, Planetenweg Wernigerode and 32 more
- 65shelters and huts within 5 kmMarthabuche, Darlingerode, Am Steinkreis, Pavillion auf dem Kahlenberg and 62 more
- 194car parks within 3 km
- 4visitor centres within 5 kmTourismus-Information, Harzer Verkehrsbetriebe (HVB) - Servicebüro, Natur-Erlebniszentrum HohneHof and 1 more
- 85restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 9campsites within 10 kmAlte Waldmühle, Am Katzenteich, Hist. Altstadt / Schloss Wernigerode and 6 more
- 294places to stay within 10 kmFürstenhof, Steinstubenrestaturant / Pension / Hotel, CVJM - Familienferienstätte Huberhaus and 291 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 Kaiser Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas433 mountains within 25 km
Lakeyas3 lakes within 15 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas8 birding sites within 25 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cascadyas8 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.
Kaiser Tower
Germany
- 68Viewyas Score
- 99 kmFarthest ridge
- 68Peaks in view
- 474 mAltitude
Brocken
Germany · 12 km
- 77Viewyas Score
- 225 kmFarthest ridge
- 737Peaks in view
- 1,138 mAltitude
Wolfsklippen
Germany · 7 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 132 kmFarthest ridge
- 105Peaks in view
- 718 mAltitude
Kahle Klippe
Germany · 13 km
- 74Viewyas Score
- 161 kmFarthest ridge
- 494Peaks in view
- 1,025 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q727030) · 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, Canyonyas, 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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