Lupfen

The wooden lookout tower on the summit of Lupfen

The Lupfen (also Hohenlupfen ) is 976.6 m above sea level. NHN, the highest mountain in the Baar Baar at the transition to law or to Baaralb and lies above the villages Talheim and Durchhausen. This witness mountain is also known as King of Baar.

History

The Lupfen was the seat of the Counts of Lupfen, of the Swabian nobility associated powerful noble family. They left the building first mentioned in 1065 and 1416 destroyed castle Hohenlupfen on the Lupfen.

Location

Built from the Swabian Albverein and entertaining, 22.5 meters high Lupfen Tower, an observation tower, surmounted not only the mixed forest. After a panel in the tower below the platform he will exceed the 1000 -meter mark. The view extends far beyond the North Baar and the Neckar River headwaters in the north to the most prominent Black Forest mountains as the Feldberg and the Hornisgrinde in the west, in the east to the lying about the same height mountains on the escarpment as the Trinity Mountain, the Klippeneck and the Lviv and in south far into the Swiss ( eg for Santis ) and Austrian Alps.

In close proximity is also a second witness mountain, the more well-known by the same name Kunststiftung picturesque Kegelberg Hohenkarpfen.