The Eckkopf Tower (german: Eckkopfturm) is a 25-metre-high observation tower on the eponymous

Eckkopf The Eckkopf is a 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. It has a {{conv ...

(516 m), a major hill in the Palatine Forest of

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. It has a tubular steel design and was erected in summer 1975 by the Deidesheim municipality. It has an observation height of and offers a good all-round view – to the west, south and north over the Palatine Forest, and to the east over the

Upper Rhine Plain The Upper Rhine Plain, Rhine Rift Valley or Upper Rhine Graben (German: ''Oberrheinische Tiefebene'', ''Oberrheinisches Tiefland'' or ''Oberrheingraben'', French: ''Vallée du Rhin'') is a major rift, about and on average , between Basel in the s ...

. The tower had two predecessors. The first was built in 1891 and collapsed in 1920 during a storm. The second, built in 1973, was destroyed by fire. In the vicinity of the tower there is a restaurant.

External links

Information at deidesheim.de

Information at vg-deidesheim.rlp.d
{{Coord, 49.416062, N, 8.138155, E, type:landmark_dim:25_region:DE-RP, format=dms, display=header Observation towers in Rhineland-Palatinate Buildings and structures in the Palatinate Forest