Rhineland-Palatinate
Bad Dürkheim
Deidesheim

Eckkopf Tower

The Eckkopf Tower is a 25-metre-high observation tower on the eponymous , a major hill in the Palatine Forest of . It has a tubular steel design and was erected in summer 1975 by the Deidesheim municipality.
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Wikipedia
Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.
  • Type: Scenic viewpoint
  • Description: observation tower on Eckkopf mountain near Deidesheim
  • Also known as: “Eckkopfturm”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Eckkopf and Grimmeisenbrunnen.

Peak
Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.
The is a 516-metre-high hill in the Palatine Forest in the German state of . It lies about 3 km west of the small Palatine town of in the Haardt, as the eastern edge of the Palatine Forest is called.

Spring
Photo: MR 2017, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a spring, which is situated 1 km southeast of Eckkopf Tower.

Protected area
Photo: Palatinatian, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a protected area, which is situated 2 km east of Eckkopf Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Deidesheim and Forst an der Weinstraße.

Village
Photo: Jacquesverlaeken, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town in the district in , with some 3,700 inhabitants. The town lies in the northwest of the urban agglomeration and since 1973 it has been the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde of . is situated 3½ km east of Eckkopf Tower.

Village
Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.
is an Ortsgemeinde – a municipality belonging to a Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the district in , . is situated 4 km east of Eckkopf Tower.

Village
Photo: Alektryo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
an der Weinstraße is a small town in the district in , , roughly 1 km south of and 20 km west of . is situated 4 km northeast of Eckkopf Tower.

Eckkopf Tower

Latitude
49.41612° or 49° 24′ 58″ north
Longitude
8.13794° or 8° 8′ 17″ east
Height
7.6 metres (25 feet)
Open location code
8FXCC48Q+C5
Open­Street­Map ID
way 387106310
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­tower
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­viewpoint
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Wiki­data ID
Q1281863
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Esperanto to German—“Eckkopf Tower” goes by many names.
  • Esperanto: “Eckkopfturm”
  • German: “Eckkopfturm”

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Highlights include Eckkopfquelle and Vorderer Langenberg.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Eckkopf Tower”. Photo: Kallistratos, Public domain.