The best-known lookout towers in North Rhine-Westphalia
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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The Sauerland and Siegerland towers are the high ones: the Lörmecke-Turm (2008) at 581 m, 5 km from Warstein; the Aussichtsturm Hohe Bracht (1930) 4 km from Lennestadt; the Küppelturm (2022) 7 km from Arnsberg; the Rabenhainturm (1896) 3 km from Netphen. In the cities: the Toelleturm, Belvedere-Turm and Weyerbuschturm 2 to 4 km from Wuppertal's center, the Eugen-Richter-Turm 2 km from Hagen. The region's mining past adds the Förderturm Buchholz, 6 km from Ibbenbüren, and Das Geleucht, 3 km from Moers.
Of the 99 observation towers RLQuest knows in North Rhine-Westphalia, 46 have a Wikipedia article, close to half. Bismarck towers are well represented: Herford, Höxter, Unna, Delecke, Remscheid. A tower leaves no room for argument about whether you got there; RLQuest reads the climb off your route and the tiles around the top 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.
and 47 more
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.
