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Darmstadt District

Neufville Tower

Darmstadt District

Neufville Tower

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Neufville Tower

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Location: Eppstein, Main-Taunus-Kreis, Darmstadt District, Hesse, Germany

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Bumble-Bee

August 25, 2021

There are currently some problems with the construction supervision and the area around the tower is officially closed. Some of the barriers have been removed/pushed to the side and depending on which direction you are coming from, you only see the signs afterwards. All in all, the tower is nice, but badly in need of renovation - but there are no signs of activity yet.

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Thomas 🖤💚

April 15, 2019

The Neufville Tower belongs to the Bergpark of Villa Anna, which was built on behalf of the Frankfurt merchant of Neufville from about 1890. The building itself was built in 1894. Until about 2015 it was operated as a forest cafe, due to the many shortcomings you can currently only visit it from the outside. However, from here you have a nice view of the Eppsteiner valley down.

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🇺🇦Uwe 🏃‍♂️1098🏍

June 12, 2021

Everything has already been written about history. And also my impression was that there is some renovation backlog.

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Veronika 2020

June 12, 2021

Currently neither managed nor specially maintained. It's a shame, because all in all, many of the trails in the area are also not in a good walking condition

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Grifo753

June 30, 2021

The Neufville Tower is currently cordoned off. Entry prohibited, with simultaneous video surveillance. But you can walk past him on the hiking trails. Perhaps it will soon be refurbished and put into operation again.

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Arek

May 30, 2020

The Neufville Tower is located on Eppsteiner Jähenberg (above the city train station) within the Villa Anna mountain park. It opens up views to Eppstein Castle in the middle of the old town, to the Kaisertempel at Staufen, to Wingertsberg and Bienberg with distinctive Wilhelminian mansions. In addition, the view of the exotic trees of the mountain park (e.g. sequoias or hemlocks), which once stood out in the landscape as solitary trees, but are now surrounded by forest.

The Neufville Tower was built in 1894 as a quotation from Eppstein Castle in the Bergpark Villa Anna, a park of the Frankfurt banking family Neufville from the 19th century. Like the Swiss house, the Villa Anna, the coach house and the pigeon house, it belongs to the architectural features of the mountain park. With the keep and hall building, the artificial ruin is designed as a copy of Eppstein Castle. The master's art and hunting collection was once housed here.

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Dexter

June 9, 2018

The Neufville tower is part of the Villa Anna mountain park.
Everything around the tower has grown quite a bit since the tower is currently not in use.

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MS61

September 20, 2018

It is rather questionable whether the tower and the cafe are still open, everything looks a bit neglected.

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DreiFalten

July 12, 2022

The trails around the tower are still very nice for hiking, precisely because they don't look licked - but the tower is still closed and there is no sign of ongoing renovation work. Too bad, the tower itself looks very pretty.

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Die Wetzels

July 29, 2022

Currently under construction, otherwise the entrances seem a bit overgrown but video monitored 🤔

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Helius FFM

December 28, 2021

The tower is located in the mountain park area, a slope interspersed with trails. Lots of possible combinations, all suitable for hiking, albeit partly exposed. For biking, sometimes up to S4 level with very narrow, steep and winding trails. Sometimes too narrow to drive.

The tower is currently under construction. The trails below the tower are overgrown and blocked with trees. Above you can easily pass and also see something from the tower:

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Mel Ba 😸🥾

October 3, 2022

Currently under construction/closed (as of October 2022)

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JR on Tour

October 10, 2022

The view from the tower should be nice, but currently closed so I'm not in

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Rainer & Petra

June 17, 2023

Not far from this stone tower there is an interesting forest house.

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