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Middle Franconia

Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim

Büttelberg Transmission Tower

Middle Franconia

Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim

Büttelberg Transmission Tower

Highlight • Monument

Büttelberg Transmission Tower

Hiking

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Mountain biking

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Gravel riding

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Cycling

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Location: Marktbergel, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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Tips

Mona | Miss Gravel 💕

March 17, 2026

Gravel riding

The Büttelberg transmitter is located on the 530-meter-high, heavily wooded Büttelberg hill in the Franconian Heights region. It has served as a broadcasting site for radio and television programs since 1952. FM radio, digital radio (DAB), and digital television (DVB-T) are broadcast. A 219-meter-high guyed steel tube mast has been used as the antenna support since 1969.

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Mona | Miss Gravel 💕

March 17, 2026

Gravel riding

🚵🏽‍♀️ If you'd like to let your bike roll down a nice downhill stretch, you should definitely tackle the climb up Büttelberg and enjoy the descent 🥳.

But be careful ⚠️: it's an access road for vehicles to the transmission tower.

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May 19, 2025

Hiking

The Büttelberg (528 m) is part of the European watershed. Coming from Marktbergel, you can see the Bavarian Broadcasting's transmitter mast (220 m) on the mountain from afar. Up until this point, the water flows via streams to the Regnitz, then into the Main, the Rhine, and finally into the North Sea. But less than 10 km further west, for example, the Altmühl rises, flows into the Danube, and with it into the Black Sea!☝🏻

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Schafsee – Büttelberg Transmission Tower loop from Oberdachstetten

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Elevation 510 m

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Location: Marktbergel, Neustadt an der Aisch-Bad Windsheim, Middle Franconia, Bavaria, Germany

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