The Blumenthal Observation Tower is a 45 metre tall observation tower built of wood in Blumenthal, part of the municipality

Heiligengrabe Heiligengrabe is a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. Geography The municipality counts 13 villages (''Ortsteil''): Blandikow, Blesendorf, Blumenthal, Grabow bei Blumenthal, Herzsprung, Jabel, Königsberg, Li ...

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Overview

The Blumenthal Observation Tower was inaugurated on September 18, 2004, and is the tallest observation tower built of wood in Germany. It is not however the tallest wooden construction built in Germany: the towers of the

Brück aerial testing facility The Brück aerial testing facility is a facility for testing Antenna (radio), aerials at Brück, south of Berlin. It was established in 1939. Overview On the Brück aerial testing facility there are two wood-framework towers built in 1963, ma ...

, the

Rottenbuch Radio Tower The Rottenbuch Radio Tower is a transmitting tower of the Vodafone company, sited between Peiting and Rottenbuch in southern Bavaria, Germany. The framework tower, a glued girder binder construction made from European Douglas fir timber, is 66 m ...

, neither of which is accessible for tourists, and the

Jahrtausendturm Jahrtausendturm (german: millennium tower) is, at , one of the highest wooden towers in the world. It was established on the occasion of the Bundesgartenschau 1999 in the Magdeburger Elbauenpark in Magdeburg, Germany. The tower houses an exhib ...

are taller. The Blumenthal Observation Tower has an observation deck 36.4 metres in height, accessible by 187 stairs. The whole construction weighs 210 tons.

External links

Official site (in German)
*http://www.skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?b41986 * Observation towers in Brandenburg Buildings and structures in Ostprignitz-Ruppin Tourist attractions in Brandenburg Towers completed in 2004 {{Brandenburg-struct-stub