Lookout tower on the Hohe Eule
The lookout tower on the Great Owl (Polish Wieża Widokowa na Wielkiej well as ) is a Bismarck tower on Wielka Sowa (German High owl ) in the district Pieszyce (Pieszyce), Lower Silesia .
history
First built in 1885 as a wooden tower at a height of 1,015 m - for comparable towers - the highest point in the German Empire at that time , it was replaced in 1906 by a 25 meter high observation tower made of granite and reinforced concrete .
After the Second World War it had several names: after 1945 the Bismarck Tower was renamed the General Wladyslaw Sikorski Tower after the Polish Prime Minister in the Second World War , and later the Mieczyslaw Orłowicz Tower. Both names never caught on, especially since the tower was falling into disrepair and was no longer maintained over the decades.
With the help of EU funding under the Interreg IIIa program, planning and renovation of the tower were gradually implemented from 2005 onwards. In a first phase, the tower was renovated and reopened in 2008; in the second phase, the outdoor facilities were gradually designed in 2008–2010. His name is now - neutral - "Wieża Widokowa na Wielkiej Sowie" (literally in German: "Lookout tower on the High Owl ").
With the exception of the winter months, the tower is open to the public today. There is a kiosk on the ground floor and an exhibition on the history and renovation of the tower on the first floor at a height of 14 meters, the public access to the interior of the tower.
The tower offers a panoramic view of the Giant Mountains , the Ślęża ( Zobten ), the villages of Dzierżoniów , Pieszyce and Bielawa , the Glatzer Kessel and, in good weather, the view as far as Wroclaw .
Web links
- Historical picture postcard of the Hohen Eule with the Bismarck tower and the former Eulenbaude on the private homepage www.grafschaft-glatz.de , last accessed on January 26, 2014
- The Bismarck Tower on the Hohen Eule at www.bismarcktuerme.de , last accessed on January 26, 2014 (there, in the context of the topographical order, misleadingly assigned to the city of Reichenbach in the Owl Mountains (Dzierżoniów))
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Wieża Widokowa na Wielkiej Sowie , from: "Project 'Gory Sowie'"; "Project 'Gory Sowie' dziedzictwo wielokulturowej historii Dolnego Śląska - kampania promocyjno - informacyjna", wspólfinansowany przez Unię Europejską z Europejskiego Funduszu Rozwoju Regionalnego w ramach Regional na lata Programu Operacyjnego dlazwa 2007. Wrocław, 2010.
- ↑ Taken from the Polish version of [1]: "Źadna się nie przyjęła."
Coordinates: 50 ° 40 ′ 48.9 ″ N , 16 ° 29 ′ 8.2 ″ E