Germany observation tower
Ludwigs-Tower
You can see 78 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 78 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).
- 78 kmFarthest ridgelooking east
- 100%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 247Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 397 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 247 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-west6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- Febwest6 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest6 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Aprwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Maynorth-west8 min before the sea-level sunset29%
- Junnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset30%
- Julnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset33%
- Augwest8 min before the sea-level sunset34%
- Sepwest6 min before the sea-level sunset35%
- Octwest4 min before the sea-level sunset28%
- Novsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Decsouth-west6 min before the sea-level sunset18%
- 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
Ludwigs-Tower.
Cultural heritage monument D-6-72-114-21 (0) in Bad Kissingen, Bavaria
Ludwigs-Tower is an observation tower in Germany, 397 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 78 km away, looking east.
247 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Schneeberg (1,051 m), 129 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 upCheck the opening hours before you go: towers and decks close in bad weather.
- Zeltplatz am Ludwigsturmcampsite · 0.0 km · 14 within 10 km
- Parkwohnstift Bad Kissingenplace to stay · 0.6 km · 59 within 10 km
- Bad Kissingennearest town · 1.4 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in Bad KissingenBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Nuremberg Airport (NUE)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 107 km in a straight lineCar hire at NUE airport (Nuremberg)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
- 16other viewpoints within 5 kmLudwigsturm, Schweizerhausbrücke, Rhönblick and 13 more
- 11named peaks within 5 kmAltenberg, Finsterberg, Stationsberg and 8 more
- 27marked trails within 3 kmNebenwanderweg Bad Kissingen > Münnerstadt, Main-Werra-Weg HSN, Der Hochrhöner and 24 more
- 29shelters and huts within 5 kmsinnberghütte, Osterberghütte, Wichtelhöhlenhütte (Liebeslaube) and 26 more
- 144car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTourist-Information
- 51restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 14campsites within 10 kmZeltplatz am Ludwigsturm, Wohnmobilstellplatz - KissSalis Therme, Campingpark Bad Kissingen and 11 more
- 59places to stay within 10 kmParkwohnstift Bad Kissingen, Hotel Sonneneck, Haus Vay and 56 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 Ludwigs-Tower, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas127 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas4 forests and trees within 15 km
Birdyas3 birding sites within 25 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.
Ludwigs-Tower
Germany
- 64Viewyas Score
- 78 kmFarthest ridge
- 247Peaks in view
- 397 mAltitude
Wittelsbacher-Tower
Germany · 5 km
- 66Viewyas Score
- 91 kmFarthest ridge
- 300Peaks in view
- 397 mAltitude
Aussichtsturm
Germany · 48 km
- 65Viewyas Score
- 80 kmFarthest ridge
- 332Peaks in view
- 360 mAltitude
Vogelsberg
Germany · 69 km
- 72Viewyas Score
- 125 kmFarthest ridge
- 367Peaks in view
- 761 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q1194859) · 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, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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