The Altenberg is the highest summit in the Limpurg Hills in southwest Germany, reaching a height of 564.7 m above sea level (NHN) and rising some 60 metres above the surrounding area. It lies east of Hohenberg, a village in the municipality of Sulzbach-Laufen, within the county of Schwäbisch Hall in the state of Baden-Württemberg.

Altenberg
The summit during the construction of the tower
Highest point
Elevation	564.7 m (1,853 ft)
Coordinates	48°57′46″N 09°54′07″E
Geography
Altenberg Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Parent range	Limpurg Hills

Altenberg Tower

At the summit is the Altenberg Tower, a 38.3-metre-high[1] observation tower. The tower was opened on 7 October 2007[2] and measures 36 metres from the ground to the observation platform. As a result, the fully covered viewing point is at a height of about 600 m.

Access

• From the newly built visitor car park east of Hohenberg, a gravelled path runs for a good 300 metres directly to the summit.
• A much longer and higher, but less steep path runs fromd the farm of Altenberg about 500 metres south of Hohenberg.
• In addition, various paths run from the east from the road between Hohenberg and Wegstetten as from the south from the Abtsklinge.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Altenberg (Limpurger Berge).

• Altenbergturm, at sulzbach-laufen.de via Internet Archive
• Topographic map with the Altenberg, in the geodata viewer at geoportal-bw.de
• 360-degree panorama from the Altenberg Tower (Description of what's visible switchable), at panorama-photo.net