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title: "How many steps up Ulm Minster? 768"
description: "768 steps up Ulm Minster in Ulm, Germany. Open to climb. What that count reaches, the height climbed, the average rise per step, and how it compares."
url: https://atoneplace.net/how-many-steps/ulm-minster/
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# How many steps to the top of Ulm Minster?

**Steps to the top of Ulm Minster: 768**

Reaching the highest viewing platform at 143 m, in the world's tallest church steeple · open to climb

At 161.5 m Ulm Minster has the tallest church steeple in the world, and unusually for a structure of that height the whole climb is open to the public: 768 steps to the top platform, with intermediate platforms at 70 m and 102 m for anyone who stops. The upper stages narrow into an open stone spiral inside the filigree spire, with the drop visible through the tracery. On a clear day the Alps are visible. It is the longest continuous public staircase of any church anywhere.

## The numbers

- **Steps:** 768
- **Reaches:** the highest viewing platform at 143 m, in the world's tallest church steeple
- **Public access:** Open to climb
- **Where:** Ulm, Germany
- **Height climbed:** 143 m — 469 ft
- **Average rise per step:** 186 mm

## What the climb is like

Around 45 minutes up. The final spiral is exposed, narrow and two-way; closed in high wind or ice.

> Published counts for the same structure routinely disagree by five to ten per cent, and nearly always for one of three reasons: whether intermediate landings count as steps, whether the final platform step counts, and where the climb is deemed to start. The figure here says what it reaches.

## How it compares

*Only the ones marked open to climb can actually be walked.*

- Berliner Fernsehturm: 986 steps
- Washington Monument: 897 steps
- Space Needle: 848 steps
- Ulm Minster: 768 steps
- Eiffel Tower: 674 steps
- Tokyo Tower: 600 steps
- St Peter's Basilica dome: 551 steps

*Ulm Minster ranks 20 of 56 here by step count.*

| Structure | Steps | Reaches | Access |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Berliner Fernsehturm | 986 | the sphere at 203 m, via the emergency staircase — no public access | Not climbable by the public |
| Washington Monument | 897 | the observation level at 152 m — stairs closed to the public | Not climbable by the public |
| Space Needle | 848 | the observation deck at 158 m | Restricted — events or permit only |
| Ulm Minster | 768 | the highest viewing platform at 143 m, in the world's tallest church steeple | Open to climb |
| Eiffel Tower | 674 | the second floor, at 115 m — the highest point the public can reach on foot | Open to climb |
| Tokyo Tower | 600 | the Main Deck at 150 m | Open to climb |
| St Peter's Basilica dome | 551 | the lantern at the top of Michelangelo's dome, at 136 m | Open to climb |

## Common questions

### How many steps to the top of Ulm Minster?

768, reaching the highest viewing platform at 143 m, in the world's tallest church steeple.

### Can the public climb Ulm Minster?

Open to climb. Around 45 minutes up. The final spiral is exposed, narrow and two-way; closed in high wind or ice.

### How high is that climb?

143 m, about 469 ft, which averages 186 mm per step.

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