Lookout tower Tanečnice

The lookout tower is located 3 km west of the village of Mikulášovice and 0.5 km from the border with Germany at an altitude of 598 m. There are 136 steps leading to the top of the lookout tower. The blue tourist sign from Mikulášovice will lead you to the lookout tower. It is possible to drive to the forest parking lot about a kilometer from the top.

This octagonal brick lookout tower is the northernmost observation tower in the Czech Republic. The first wooden tower stood here in 1887, but was destroyed by a storm in 1903. The new lookout tower was put into use in 1905. The construction was financed by Count František Václav Salm-Reifferscheidet.

There is a spring of drinking water at the top of Tanečnice, which is why a 25 m deep well was dug here. From the lookout tower there is a beautiful view of the panoramas of Bohemian-Saxon Switzerland, the Lusatian Mountains and the Elbe Sandstones. You can look around the Šluknov spur, to Lusatia and Germany and, if visibility is good, also to the Ore Mountains and the Giant Mountains. The hill is named after the legend that a beautiful young girl – a dancer – used to come to this place to dance and seduce hunters.