Angerturm
The Angerturm is a former traffic pulpit and a traffic-historical monument in the Thuringian capital of Erfurt .
The almost five meter high construction consists of an arched staircase that supports a small, glazed guard cabin. The tower was built in 1961 on the central old town square of Anger at the intersection of Bahnhofstrasse and Schlösserstrasse and was used by the traffic police to regulate the tram , trolleybus and car traffic. A microphone system enabled the staff on duty to make loudspeaker announcements. A roller control in the tower operated the traffic lights.
In 1974 the transformation of Anger in a pedestrian area began, the tower lost its function and was at the junction "Erfurt-Ost" the highway added. There he served until 1989 to monitor transit traffic through the GDR . After seven years of structural disintegration following the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification , the Erfurt public transport company and the city administration's office for transport had the tower dismantled and renovated in 1996. The repair work was completed in early August 2002.
Since then, the former Anger Tower on the stands rail - depot Magdeburg Avenue on the western edge of the district Johannesvorstadt immediately south of the Lutheran Church and can be visited.
Web links
- Steffen Raßloff : Traffic tower on the Anger. In: Erfurt-web.de, contribution to the series Monuments in Erfurt from the Thüringer Allgemeine , October 25, 2014
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 ′ 24.9 ″ N , 11 ° 1 ′ 37 ″ E