The best-known lookout towers in Bavaria
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Bavaria's towers are mostly in the north. The Asenturm (1923) stands at 1024 m, 19 km from Bayreuth; the Prinz-Luitpold-Turm (1902) 20 km from Hof. Coburg has the Bismarckturm Coburg (1901) 1 km from town and the Eckardtsturm 2 km. Nuremberg's Schmausenbuckturm (1888) is 5 km from the center. In the south the list thins out: the Bismarckturm Assenhausen at 665 m, 7 km from Starnberg, and the Taubenbergturm 7 km from Holzkirchen.
Of the 136 observation towers RLQuest knows in Bavaria, 27 have a Wikipedia article. Several carry a build date, from the Schmausenbuckturm in 1888 to the Aussichtsturm Rödlas near Amberg in 1977. Towers are among the easiest RLQuest quests to confirm: one point, one climb. The app checks your route reached the base and the tiles around it fill in.
Every dot is a place. The numbers mark the highlights listed below.
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
A selection, best known first, with the nearest larger town next to each.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. Borders: geoBoundaries (CC BY 4.0); Canada: Statistics Canada. As of 2026-10-02. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
