Mettnau-Turm, Radolfzell

The Mettnau Tower is an 18-meter-high wooden observation tower on the Mettnau peninsula near Radolfzell on Lake Constance in the Konstanz district of Baden-Württemberg.

The Mettnau Tower, which was named Dr. Ludwig Finckh Tower before it was renamed by the town of Radolfzell after 1945, was built in 1938 as a bird watching station for the then new "Reich nature reserve" Mettnau. The first person to give the name in 1940 was the writer Ludwig Finckh, who lived in Gaienhofen on the Höri. Finckh was an active member of the NSDAP from 1933 and NS cultural office and NSDAP propaganda leader of Gaienhofen from 1935. In 1961, the tower, which had become dilapidated, was demolished and rebuilt. Even after its renaming, it continued to be called Finckh Tower by the locals, partly until the present day; thus, on the occasion of Finckh's 100th birthday in 1976, an uncritical Finckh memorial plaque was attached to the Mettnauturm.

Information boards installed on the Mettnau tower provide information about the Lake Constance landscape. You can see the parts of Lake Constance called Markelfinger Winkel in the north and Untersee in the south with Zeller See, Gnadensee and Untersee proper. In addition to the view of the Lake Constance landscape, the tower also provides a panoramic view of the Hegau region, the island of Reichenau and Switzerland with the Thurgau Seerücken, the Swiss Alps and the Säntis.

Up to the tower, the Mettnau Peninsula nature reserve is accessible all year round.