Top platform
At 83 m.
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The Pyramidenkogel is an 851-metre mountain in Carinthia, southern Austria, south of the Wörthersee and near the town of Maria Wörth, about 12 km west of Klagenfurt in a straight line. It has drawn visitors since at least the late 19th century, and Baedeker's 1879 guide to the Eastern Alps mentions the view from its top. On the summit stands a wood-and-steel observation tower finished in 2013. At 100 metres high it is the tallest wooden observation tower in the world. The architects Markus Klaura and Dietmar Kaden designed it, describing it as a ladder to the sky made of stacked ellipses. It has a visitor platform at 83 metres, a café at 70 metres, and a 66-metre slide, the longest in Europe. The slender spiralling tower with its curved timber columns rises above the forest, with stairs and a gleaming steel slide winding around it. From its platforms the view sweeps over the blue Wörthersee, the villages on its shores and the ranges of the southern Alps. Visitors go up the tower to the platforms, sit in the café, and many ride the long slide down. Clear days are best for the view, and it can be windy at the top.
At 83 m.
Europe's longest.
A blue view.
Pyramidenkogel summit, Keutschach am See, Carinthia, Austria
100 metres.
On a clear day.
