Hagberg Tower, Wooden observation tower in Gschwend, Germany

Hagberg Tower is a 23-metre wooden observation tower on a reinforced concrete foundation, built in 1979/80 on the 585-metre Hagberg, the highest summit of the Welzheimer Wald. Its timber-clad shaft holds a kiosk on the ground floor and a tower room beside the stairs; 91 steps over four intermediate levels lead to two Art Nouveau pagoda-like platforms at 15.2 and 17.8 metres, each with three windows, the middle ones opening.

A survey scaffold of the Württemberg state survey once stood on the summit and could be climbed for the view; from 1895 this gave rise to plans for a tower, inaugurated on 1 September 1901. The Schwäbischer Albverein took it over in 1936. From 1939 a Luftwaffe observation post occupied the tower and its upper pagoda was removed. After storm damage in 1970 it closed in 1973, and the rebuilt tower opened on 21 June 1980.

The tower is run by the Schwäbischer Albverein, which took it over in 1936 and still maintains it. Its two pagoda-style Jugendstil tops hold the viewing platforms on the fourth and fifth levels, at 15.2 and 17.8 metres. The middle of the three windows on each side opens for a wider view.

The tower is open on Sundays and public holidays from the third Sunday in April until the end of October. On other days, a key for climbing the tower can be obtained in the hamlet of Wasserhof, 300 metres east-northeast. A small car park at the western edge of the Sturmhof hamlet leaves a walk of about 500 metres northwest through the Haghof hamlet to the tower.

The tower stands on the summit of the Hagberg, at 585.2 m the highest point of the Welzheimer Wald, whose bare top is visible from far around. Just south of the tower, beneath a mound, lies a water reservoir. The site previously held a surveying scaffold from the Württemberg state survey, which could also be climbed for the view.