Eckkopf

The Eckkopf is a 516-metre-high hill in the Palatine Forest in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It lies about 3 km west of the small Palatine town of Deidesheim in the Haardt, as the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest is called.

Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Eckkopf Tower and Grimmeisenbrunnen.

Eckkopf Tower

Scenic viewpoint

Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.

The Eckkopf Tower is a 25-metre-high observation tower on the eponymous Eckkopf, a major hill in the Palatine Forest of Germany. It has a tubular steel design and was erected in summer 1975 by the Deidesheim municipality.

Grimmeisenbrunnen

Spring

Photo: MR 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Grimmeisenbrunnen is a spring.

Heidenlöcher

Protected area

Photo: Palatinatian, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Heidenlöcher is a protected area.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Deidesheim and Forst an der Weinstraße.

Deidesheim

Village

Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY 4.0.

Deidesheim is a town in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany with some 3,700 inhabitants. The town lies in the northwest of the Rhine-Neckar urban agglomeration and since 1973 it has been the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of Deidesheim.

Forst an der Weinstraße

Village

Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.

Forst an der Weinstraße is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the Bad Dürkheim district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.