Braunshausen is located in the south-eastern corner of the Hochsauerlandkreis, close to the borders with Hesse and to Rengershausen, a village belonging to the town of Frankenberg.
The Homert rises in the southwestern part of the county of Hochsauerlandkreis, roughly in the centre of the triangle formed by Meinkenbracht, in the borough of Sundern, and Obersalwey in the south-southwest and Niedersalwey in the southeast, both in the borough of Eslohe.
The Schomberg Observation Tower is located in the town of Sundern, in the kreis (district) of Hochsauerland, in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.