Hilmwarte
The Hilmwarte , sometimes: Hilmteichwarte is a weather radar -Forschungsstation and a former lookout tower in the eleventh Grazer district Mariatrost .
Building history
As early as 1857 there was a wooden observation tower at the current location, but the surrounding Leechwald overgrown it. At the municipal council meeting on October 10, 1887, it was decided to build the new tower where the small observation tower had been.
Today's observatory, opened on July 4, 1888 as part of a Hilmteich -Fests, architect Mathias Seidl was performed according to the inscription on the plans, funded by 200 industrialists and merchants as founders under the auspices of Mercer and co-initiator (1864) of the Styrian Escompte -Bank Johann Kleinoscheg (1817–1896), from 1857 to 1868 co-owner and developer of the Hilnteich site. The celebration was accompanied by three military bands , which performed the Hilnteichwarte March composed by Josef Steyskal (1854–1922) in unison .
After construction, the Hilmwarte became the property of the city of Graz.
The 40 meter high tower consists of six tapering floors on a rectangular floor plan. The old viewing platform at a height of 30 meters with a small round tower could be reached via 182 steps. The outer support structure of the tower consists of exposed brick masonry with offset corner blocks made of mortar. Until the end of the war there was an Aeolian harp on the roof ridge of the control room , the whereabouts of which are unknown.
function
The Hilmwarte was next to the Hilnteich a popular excursion destination for the Grazer in the Leechwald, a fact that many postcards from the time around the turn of the 19th to the 20th century prove. Next to the Hilmwarte, whose viewing platform is no longer in its original condition, there is a small tower keeper's house, which was built in a similar architectural style in 1887/88. During the Second World War , the Hilmwarte was the location for fire guards.
Renovated in 1984/85, the Hilmwarte serves as a weather radar research station, opened by Federal Minister for Science and Research Hans Tuppy on April 25, 1987. The space weather laboratory was initiated by Willibald Riedler (1932-2018).
literature
- Renate Kniely: Lookout waiting around Graz . In: Historical yearbook of the city of Graz . Volume 38/39. City of Graz (Ed.), Graz 2009, ISSN 0440-9728 , pp. 413–457.
- Andreas Brudnjak: The Hilmwarte . In: Lookout guide . Volume 3: For Styria - the 100 most beautiful viewing points from Bad Aussee to Bad Radkersburg including 24 points in the volcanic region . Kral, Berndorf 2014, ISBN 978-3-99024-245-2 , pp. 37-40.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Kniely: Outlook waiting around Graz , p. 445.
- ↑ Twenty-second (ordinary) parish council meeting on October 10th. In: Grazer Volksblatt , supplement to No. 232/1887 (XXth year), October 12, 1887, p. 5 (unpaginated), column 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ r .: Graz Notes. Hilmwarte opening party. In: Grazer Volksblatt , No. 151/1888 (XXI. Volume), July 4, 1888, p. 2 (unpaginated), column 3. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ Graz daily report. Johann Kleinoscheg †. In: Grazer Tagblatt , morning edition, No. 312/1896 (VI. Year), November 11, 1896, p. 2 f. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ^ Opening party of the Hilnteich-Warte. In: Grazer Volksblatt , No. 153/1888 (XXI. Volume), 6 July 1888, p. 6 (unpaginated), column 1 ff. (Online at ANNO ). .
- ↑ a b Kniely: Outlook waiting around Graz , p. 446.
- ↑ Kniely: Outlook waiting around Graz , p. 449.
- ↑ Thorsten Schildorfer (edit.): Hilmwarte ( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: gbg.graz.at , January 15, 2008, accessed on January 31, 2018.
- ↑ Norbert Swoboda: “You have to have courage”. "Space Pope" Willibald Riedler celebrates his 80th birthday today. (...) . In: kleinezeitung.at , September 2, 2012, accessed on January 31, 2018.
Coordinates: 47 ° 5 ′ 6.9 ″ N , 15 ° 27 ′ 53.5 ″ E