Across from Heidelburg Castle???

I have pictures, and we use to call it Witches Tower

but it does have a tower and some sort of wind flag

(made of wood?)

What do you call this place, and is it still part of

heidelburg, or another town, as the river may be

a borderline.

Thanks everyone for help answering this.

My name is Mike Kelly and I was stationed at

Tompkins and worked at Kilbourne from 72 to 74

then got transferred to Worms for the last 6 months.

CtGuy1955@yahoo.com is my email.

Im still in contact with Perry E.Walker

Michael J. Beaulieu

Gregg Williams

Hard to believe I was 17 then and am 53 now

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You find many castles and towers with flags in Germany .

There are also a lot of such towers , in German = Hexenturm . One of it in Heidelberg

Therefore it is difficult to say which one you mean .

Give in %26quot;Hexenturm%26quot; in google ( http://images.google.de ) to find your witches tower

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Thank you very much for your reply, but

The Hexenturm in Heidelberg is in fact

a %26quot;witches tower%26quot; in actual name, but

not the place I was seeking. When you are

on the Heidelberg Castle porch/Deck looking

towards the river, You can only see this tower

with the wooden wind flag with binoculars or

if you have really good eyes (I dont).

When you are inside this building Im speaking of

you can stand on this wall like structure, and look

down about 15 feet. When you are standing in the center

of this wall, and you look forward and out, you see

a amphitheater that can hold hundreds of people

and what looks like 2 pill boxes, where if you had

machine guns, you could mow everyone down.

Because its been over 33 years sence Ive been there,

I dont remember how we got to this place, it had to

be by private car, and was high up on top of the

mountain across from the Castle.

I have pictures I took, and can upload them to

my livevideo.com area. Just do a search for

ctguy1955 in channels.

Thanks for trying to help.

Mike

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Looking at one of my maps there is a 360 degree vista point north of Heidelberg called Weisser Stein Turm (White Stone Tower). As I have never been to it I don%26#39;t know if it fits your description or not, but I think it is probably your best candidate.

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Der Turm auf dem Wei?en Stein picture is not

where I was.

I did, today post pictures on my %26quot;livevideo.com%26quot;

under Heidelberg in my photo section if you

do a search for CTGUY1955 in channels.

I had one photo of me on top of tower, and you

can see the wood Wind Direction finder on top.

I circled where on the mountain you can see the

tower from the castle.

I should go on google earth and try to find a look

down picture of it.

Thanks for your time and help, I hope the pictures

I sent will help you to understand what I am

looking for.

Mike

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I found it using Google Earth.

They have some really nice pictures too.

I cant tell from the GE photo, but it may have

been much lower on the hill then I originally

thought.

49 degrees 25%26#39; 10.71 N

8 degrees 42%26#39; 13.47 E

one name has Thingstatte Heidelberg

for the amphitheater

and the name: Aussichtsturm Beim Stephanskloster

for the Tower with the wind indicator on top.

Thank you so much for all your help

I appreciate it very much.

Mike

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