25 km around Frankfurt

Castles, towers and viewpoints near Frankfurt

The Taunus sits just inside Frankfurt's 25 km circle, which is where the good stuff is: Burg Kronberg at 14.6 km, the Burgruine Königstein at 17.6 km, the Römerkastell Saalburg at 19.3 km and the Großer Feldberg with its lookout tower at 20.7 km. In town, the Eschenheimer Turm (1426) is 0.4 km from the center and the Main Tower has the view; the Goetheturm, built 1931, stands in the forest south of the river at 3.5 km.

What you won't expect is 27 bunkers, many of them Hochbunker in the inner districts, and 48 archaeological sites including stretches of the Römischer Limes. When one of them lands in your morning quests, the walk out fills in tiles you've never uncovered.

70 Viewpoints48 Archaeological sites40 Castles and palaces27 Bunkers26 Ruins17 Lookout towers12 City gates11 Monuments

Where the places are

Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of Frankfurt.

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Worth the trip around Frankfurt

The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.

Places by type

A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.

Castles and palaces 40

  • Schloss Philippsruhe15 km
  • Schelmenburg6.6 km
  • Burgruine Königstein18 km
  • Bommersheim Burg11 km
  • Schloss Friedrichshof15 km
  • Kastell Kleiner Feldberg21 km
  • Burg Hayn in der Dreieich13 km
  • Burgruine Eppstein21 km
  • Burg Falkenstein17 km
  • Neues Schloss10 km
  • Bolongaropalast9.5 km
  • Holzhausenschlösschen1.2 km

and 25 more

Viewpoints 70

  • Wandersmann22 km
  • Wasserturm14 km
  • Flörsheimer Warte23 km
  • Hünerberg15 km
  • Domturm0.5 km
  • Main Tower0.9 km
  • Great view on Frankfurt Skyline1.0 km
  • Goetheruh3.5 km
  • Mainblick3.9 km
  • Skyline-Panorama4.0 km
  • Seckbacher Ried4.6 km
  • Buchrain5.1 km

and 57 more

Waterfalls 1

  • Rombach Wasserfall19 km

Ruins 26

  • Römerkastell "Altes Jagdhaus"20 km
  • Rödelheimer Schloßturm5.2 km
  • Obermühle9.8 km
  • Wiesenmühle10 km
  • Burg im Hain13 km
  • Stumpfer Turm14 km
  • Antoniuskapelle16 km
  • Bergfried Burg Falkenstein17 km
  • Untermühle17 km
  • Historischer Verbindungsweg Rettershof - Rote Mühle18 km

and 13 more

City gates 12

  • Zollturm9.9 km
  • Kuhhirtenturm (Elefant)1.1 km
  • Rententurm0.7 km
  • Nordtor Nürnberger Hof0.5 km
  • Schloßtor9.9 km
  • Maintor9.9 km
  • Untertor13 km
  • Obertor13 km
  • Altes Rathaus17 km

Windmills 1

  • Bockwindmühle von der Papenhorst21 km

Lookout towers 17

  • Ellerhöhturm13 km
  • Aussichtsturm Großer Feldberg21 km
  • Hardtbergturm16 km
  • Meisterturm18 km
  • Aussichtsturm auf dem Wingertsberg14 km
  • Aussichtsturm Wetterpark7.7 km
  • Schillerturm14 km
  • Aussichtsturm 417 km
  • Aussichtsturm 218 km
  • Aussichtsturm 118 km
  • Regionalpark-Turm Weilbacher Kiesgruben18 km
  • Aussichtsturm Mönchbruch20 km

and 3 more

Caves 2

  • Bärenhöhle17 km
  • Gagernhöhle17 km

Historic towers 6

  • Mainturm21 km
  • Kleiner Cohn0.7 km
  • Bismarckturm14 km
  • Langer Franz0.7 km
  • Neugotischer Zierturm1.0 km
  • Schloßturm10 km

Watermills 1

  • Mühlrad18 km

Archaeological sites 48

  • Wall der Ostumwehrung von Nida5.3 km
  • Römischer Limes20 km
  • Heidenschloß6.4 km
  • Wartweg-Gruppe7.6 km
  • Römische Villa11 km
  • Kleinkastell Heidenstock20 km
  • Kleinkastell Neuwirtshaus21 km
  • Innerer Ringwall18 km
  • Äußerer Ringwall18 km
  • Ringwall Altkönig18 km
  • Westlicher Annex18 km
  • Heidetränk-Oppidum16 km

and 36 more

Monuments 11

  • Zeppelinstein12 km
  • Simmetseiche14 km
  • Kriegerdenkmal Feuerwehr11 km
  • Sühnekreuz13 km

and 7 more

Summits 46

  • Großer Feldberg21 km
  • Monte Scherbelino5.9 km
  • Altkönig18 km
  • Romberg19 km
  • Staufen19 km
  • Roßkopf19 km
  • Gickelsburg18 km
  • Kapellenberg18 km
  • Klingenkopf20 km
  • Judenkopf21 km
  • Weißeberg21 km
  • Bleibeskopf18 km

and 34 more

Bunkers 27

  • Hochbunker0.8 km
  • Germaniastraße Hochbunker (Kulturwerkstatt)1.6 km
  • Petterweilstraße Hochbunker2.0 km
  • Mörfelder Landstraße Hochbunker2.3 km
  • Rendelerstraße Hochbunker (Musikbunker)2.4 km
  • Musikbunker2.7 km
  • Marbachweg Hochbunker2.8 km
  • Schäfflestraße Hochbunker3.8 km
  • Eppenhainer Strasse Hochbunker4.4 km
  • Musikbunker Schmidtstraße4.9 km
  • Hadrianstraße Hochbunker5.2 km
  • Heddernheimer Musikbunker5.4 km

and 15 more

How Frankfurt turns into a game

RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:

1

Places become quests

Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.

2

Being first pays off

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.

3

The map fills in

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.

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Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.