Geißkopf | |
Photo Size: | 282px |
Elevation: | (1097.4disp=output onlyNaNdisp=output only) |
Listing: | Geißkopf Tower (viewing tower) |
Range: | Bavarian Forest |
Location: | Regen, Bavaria, Germany |
Map: | Germany Bavaria |
Coordinates: | 48.9247°N 13.0381°W |
Geology: | gneiss |
The Geißkopf is a mountain,, in the Bavarian Forest in Germany.
The Geißkopf lies near the village of Bischofsmais in the Breitenau, a region to which Breitenauriegel, Dreitannenriegel and Einödriegel also belong.
The mountain has been managed since the 1960s as a local recreation area. As well as walking, there is a 1,142-metre-long chair lift which was opened in 1967/68, 3 long and 3 short drag lifts with 9 pistes as well as a sommerrodelbahn and winter toboggan runs. In the summer mountain bikes may be transported on the chair lift and there are 12 descents in the bike park. At the summit is a mountain restaurant and a 23-metre-high wooden observation tower, which enables a good, all-round view of the Rear Bavarian Forest. There is also a transmission antenna for broadcasting the radio programmes of "Unser Radio Regen" on 89.3 MHz with a transmit power of 200 W ERP.[1] It is thus one of the few wooden towers that broadcasts radio programmes today.
A few hundred metres from the top is the Oberbreitenau, a formerly settled clearance. Today it is home to the Landshuter Haus, managed by the Bavarian Forest Club.