Eichberg Tower
The Eichbergturm is a lookout tower at 368.9 m above sea level. NHN high Eichberg near Emmendingen . The viewing pulpit was made of oak and sits on six Douglas fir trunks , which together with an upper platform frame form a truncated pyramid. The staircase is a filigree cylinder made of sectional steel and structural steel mesh, the spiral staircase has 240 steps made of oak.
With a height of 53.20 meters, it is the highest observation tower in Baden-Württemberg . The tower with its pulpit rises above the oak forest by around 10 meters at a height of 43.20 m. From the pulpit there is a panoramic view of the surrounding area, the entire Black Forest ridge to the Isteiner Klotz , the Swiss Jura , the Vosges chain and the Kaiserstuhl .
The tower was built by an association founded in 1999 and handed over to the city of Emmendingen on September 17, 2005 and made accessible to the public. It is officially called the Jubilee Tower of Baden-Württemberg .
Ants and fungi attack the logs, so in the long run the two most severely infested logs have to be replaced. The tower was closed from April 10 to July 20, 2015.
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- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ^ "Anniversary tower 50 years of Baden-Württemberg" ( Memento from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lookout tower: ants and fungi are the last to attack the Eichberg tower - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Emmendingen: The worm is in the Eichberg tower - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved April 12, 2015 .
- ↑ Emmendingen: Destination: The Eichberg Tower can be climbed again - badische-zeitung.de. Retrieved July 23, 2015 .
Coordinates: 48 ° 8 '0.4 " N , 7 ° 51' 57.1" E