The Hohe Möhr is a mountain, , in the

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near

Schopfheim Schopfheim () is a town in the Lörrach (district), district of Lörrach in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is situated on the river Wiese (river), Wiese, 10 km north of Rheinfelden (Baden), Rheinfelden, and 13 km east of Lörrach. The ...

in the German state of

Baden-Württemberg Baden-Württemberg ( ; ), commonly shortened to BW or BaWü, is a states of Germany, German state () in Southwest Germany, east of the Rhine, which forms the southern part of Germany's western border with France. With more than 11.07 million i ...

Tower

On the Hohe Möhr is the roughly 30-metre-high Hohe Möhr Tower, an observation tower built by the

Black Forest Club The Schwarzwaldverein (Black Forest Club or Black Forest Association) was founded in Freiburg im Breisgau (Germany) in 1864, making it the oldest German hiking and mountaineering club. The Schwarzwaldverein has almost 90,000 members in 241 loca ...

in 1924. In addition, the broadcaster, SWR, operates a VHF transmitter at , which uses a 77-metre-high, free-standing

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. The observation platform is about 25 metres above the ground, that is at a height of about , and, in good weather, has a very good view of the chain of the

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, the Jura and the

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. There are also views of the Wiese,

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and

Wehra Wehra is a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It passes through Todtmoos and Wehr and flows into the Rhine downstream of Bad Säckingen. Geography Location and topography The valley of the Wehra is distinctly divided into three sections. ...

valleys, the

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and of course the mountains of the Black Forest.

Access

The best route is from the

Schweigmatt Schweigmatt is a Hamlet (place), hamlet located in the southern Black Forest of Germany at an altitude of 780 metres. It belongs to the village of Raitbach and is part of the municipality of Schopfheim in the district of Lörrach (district), Lörr ...

over the southern mountainside of the Hohe Möhr. There is a car park at the Schweigmatt swimming pool. From there it is ca. 2.5 km and 240 metres of climb to the tower along the road to the Hohe Möhr. Also suitable for prams or mountain bikes. There are also narrower footpaths from the Schweigmatt. Another route begins at Raitbach, from the Festival Hall car park on the Scheuermatt (end of Raitbach village). From there it is about 5 km and 420 metres of climbing. Both car parks have a ramblers' information board that displays various paths and linking walks. Those travelling by train can alight at Hausen- Raitbach station and get to the mountain via Raitbach or the Raitbacher Höhe and Hebelhöhe. The shortest route is about 7.5 km and climbs through ca. 580 metres. A board on the footpath to Raitbach gives information on these routes.

Gallery

Hohe Möhr 1.JPG, The Hohe Möhr seen from the

Zeller Blauen The Zeller Blauen (more rarely: ''Hochblauen'') is a mountain, , in the southern Black Forest in Germany. It belongs to Zell im Wiesental in the Baden-Württemberg county of Lörrach Lörrach () is a city in southwest Germany, in the valley of ...

. The transmitter may be seen to the right of the summit and the observation tower to the left Hohe Möhr.jpg, The mountain in winter seen from the southwest

References

Literature

Ernst Müller, Albert Rieger: ''Die Geschichte des Hohe-Möhr-Turms'', In: ''100 Jahre Turm auf der Hohen Möhr'', Festschrift des Schwarzwaldvereins Schopfheim, 1993, pp. 11–22

External links

Information and pictures of the Hohe Möhr

Photos of the transmitter on the Hohe Möhr

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