View from Wisenberg Tower - Häfelfingen, BL, Switzerland
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N 47° 24.147 E 007° 52.902
32T E 415621 N 5250494
View from the look-out tower on Mount Wisenberg
Waymark Code: WMMFZT
Location: Solothurn, Switzerland
Date Posted: 09/15/2014
Views: 7
Wisenberg is a mountain of the Jura range; with a height of 1,002 meters it is the easternmost and also the northernmost Jura peak that is higher than 1,000 meters. There are several hiking paths up to the summit.
On the mountain summit there had been a watch tower, since the late medieval time. In there early 19th century this place became a first level triangulation point of the Swiss geodetic system (the stone under the red pyramid roof next tot the tower). In the First World War a military watch tower was built. It was rebuilt as a civil look-out tower with a height of nine meters in 1927. In 1953 it was extended to 15 meters and again in 1987 to 24.5 meters. You can easily distinguish these different parts in the current structure.
The top of the tower offers a great view over the eastern part of the Jura mountains with its villages and valleys, as well as the Alps in the south.
Type of overlook: platform
Picnic tables: yes
Benches: yes
Water/restrooms: no
Overlook designation: Designated
Elevation: 3,370.00
View:
Western Jura, villages of southern Basel-Land, Alps
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