Zeppelin Tower (Bad Dürkheim)
The Zeppelin Tower is a viewing platform on the summit of 342.1 m above sea level. NHN high Ebersbergs near the Seebach district of the city of Bad Dürkheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate district of Bad Dürkheim .
Viewing platform
The approximately 5 m high structure is not so much a lookout tower , but rather a viewing platform accessible via a spiral-shaped, 80 m long and at the same time stepless staircase, which is called Schneckenudel ( high German snail noodle ) in the Palatinate dialect because of its original shape ; both snail noodle and snail noodle can also be found on some maps. Stairway and platform, are provided on the two benches are, by iron - railing secured.
history
As early as 1854 a tower was built on the mountain, which was named Malakoffturm after the French statesman and General Pélissier ("Malakoff"; 1794-1864) in memory of the victory in the Crimean War (1853-1856) .
On August 4, 1908, when Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (1838–1917) was on a tour of the southwest of the German Reich in his airship LZ 4 , numerous onlookers hiked to the lookout point to see the Zeppelin in the distance. One day later, the LZ 4 was completely destroyed in the accident in Echterdingen , where there were no victims. Around 1909 the building was renamed the Zeppelin Tower to commemorate the Zeppelin trip.
After wind and weather hit the zeppelin tower and a forest fire caused further damage in 1971, it was renovated in 1974 by the Palatinate Forest Association (PWV; local group Seebach).
Opportunities for viewing and hiking
From the Zeppelin Tower the view falls into the Upper Rhine Plain , including Bad Dürkheim directly in the northeast to the east, Ludwigshafen am Rhein with the BASF site in the east and Speyer with the Kaiserdom in the southeast. You can also look out over the neighboring mountains of the Palatinate Forest and the surrounding wine region. You can also see the Bad Dürkheimer Bismarck Tower in the north and the nearby Limburg monastery ruins in the north-northeast .
The Zeppelin Tower can be reached on the Towers and Monasteries circular trail (see the hiking section of the Ebersberg article).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Zeppelinturm and other sights in the Palatinate Forest (with photos), on palzpix.de
- ↑ The Great Falk Atlas - Germany Detailed Maps , M = 1: 200,000, 2004/2005, ISBN 9783827903815
- ↑ a b c d Zeppelinturm ( Memento of the original from July 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. and other sights in the Palatinate Forest in the Pfalzlexikon with directions, on pfalzlexikon.de
Coordinates: 49 ° 26 ′ 54.1 ″ N , 8 ° 8 ′ 23 ″ E