What to See in Schmitten im Taunus - Top Sights and Attractions

Mountain with a transmitter and bike park. The Großer Feldberg is, at a height of 879.5 metres, the highest elevation of the Taunus mountains, and of the entire Rhenish Massif. It is situated in the Hochtaunuskreis district in Hesse, Germany.

The Feldberg/Taunus transmitter mast is set at the top of the mountain. A lookout tower affords long-distance views onto the Taunus hills to the North and West and over and beyond the Rhein-Main plain to the South and East. A restaurant and a small hut offer food and drinks.

The mountain is accompanied by the Kleiner Feldberg, a subsidiary of 825 m at a distance of 1.3 km to the south-west, and the 798-metres-high Altkönig, 2.3 km to the south-east.^[1]

Mountain in Germany. Pferdskopf is a 662.6 meter high mountain of Hesse, Germany.

At the summit of the mountain is a look-out tower. From 1895 to 1960 it was an 18 meter high tower made from steel and built by the Taunusklub, a regional rambling club. The current tower is 34 meter high and made from wood in the year 1987.^[2]

Tower in Schmitten, Germany. The Feldberg/Taunus transmitter is a facility for FM- and TV-broadcasting and for directional radio services.

It is used for FM- and TV-broadcasting; a 116.17-metre-high (381.1 ft) guyed mast is used as an antenna tower. It is located on the Großer Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Taunus region of Germany.

The telecommunication tower on the Großer Feldberg is a combination of a multistoried building and a telecommunications tower of unconventional design.^[3]

The Laurentius Church in Arnoldshain is one of the oldest churches in the Taunus region and is a listed building. It is named after Saint Laurentius of Rome.