The best-known lookout towers in Saxony
Ordered by how much has been written about each place. The numbers match the map.
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Up at 1,018 meters in the Erzgebirge, the Auersbergturm (1860) is 13 km from Schwarzenberg; the Fürst-Bismarck-Turm Schneeberg (1893) stands at 580 meters. Lusatia has the König-Friedrich-August-Turm of 1854, 2 km from Löbau, and the Reichenturm in the middle of Bautzen. Newer builds include the Maria-Josepha-Turm (1998, 483 m) near Limbach-Oberfrohna and the Weifbergturm of 2000. The Babisnauer Pappel, 8 km from Freital, is a poplar tree, as the name says, and still counts as a lookout.
Saxony's list comes to 82 named observation towers, 20 of them with a Wikipedia article; the state's 364 castles and 77 ruins have their own pages too. Towers are a good fit for RLQuest's distance quests, since the top is an unambiguous endpoint: your recorded route either reaches it or it doesn't, and the map fills in behind you either way.
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 30 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.
