Josefswarte

As early as 1881, the Perchtoldsdorf Beautification Association erected a wooden observation tower on the summit of the 575 m high Hinterer Föhrenberg. Ten years later, however, the Josefswarte, named after the famous anatomist Josef Hyrtl, was so dilapidated that it had to be replaced by an iron structure. Until the opening of the Kammersteinerhütte, built in 1912 directly at the foot of the lookout tower in the style of a Tyrolean cottage, there was a wooden house covered with sheet metal on the lowest floor of the Josefswarte, which provided shelter for forestry and land protection personnel as well as hikers in bad weather, and where refreshments were served in summer.

Easily accessible from the center of Perchtoldsdorf, visitors can enjoy a wonderful view from a height of 11 meters towards the foothills of the Alps, from the Vienna Basin to the Leitha and Rosalia Mountains, the Hundsheim Mountains and the Little Carpathians in good weather.