The Weilerskopf is a hill, 470 metres high, in a wooded exclave of
Herxheim am Berg northwest of the German town of
Bad Dürkheim. Its summit is the site of a
transmission tower owned by
Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom AG (; short form often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a German telecommunications company that is headquartered in Bonn and is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. Deutsche Telekom was ...
.
Transmission tower
The Weilerskopf transmission tower is a standard telecommunications tower, or ''
Typenturm
A ''Typenturm'' (German for ''standard tower'') is a standardised telecommunications tower built of reinforced concrete the former German federal post office (now Deutsche Telekom AG).
Different types of tower were developed and built at differe ...
'', built in 1969.
Gebetsfelsen
The Gebetsfelsen is a rock formation on the Weilerskopf. It is a 7-metre-long, 4-metre-wide and only 1.4-metre-high
monolith made of
sandstone. Twelve steps have been cut into the sandstone, probably in Roman times. A Roman quarry is located in the vicinity of the Gebetsfelsen.
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Mountains and hills of Rhineland-Palatinate
Mountains and hills of the Palatinate Forest
Bad Dürkheim (district)