Büchenbronn observation tower

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Büchenbronn observation tower

The Büchenbronner observation tower is a high metal-built 26 meters observation tower on the south-west of Pforzheim situated 607.8  m above sea level. NHN high Büchenbronner Höhe, also called Eichberg. It is located in the Pforzheim district of Büchenbronn in Baden-Württemberg .

history

The Büchenbronn observation tower was built in its filigree form in 1883 and inaugurated on May 22, 1884. It is possibly one of the oldest steel lattice towers in the world, along with the Götzingerhöhe observation tower and the Gustav Vietor tower, which has since been demolished .

The client was the Pforzheim Beautification Association. The tower was designed on an octagonal floor plan as a skeleton construction with cast iron pipes and profiles by the company Louis Kühne ( Dresden ). Plan drawings can still be found today in Büchenbronn Town Hall. The platform height is 24.75 meters, with the parapet it is 26 meters high. The tower can be climbed via 125 steps on a spiral staircase that runs around four square tubes in the center of the tower. As early as 1885, the Deutsche Bauzeitung wrote about stability , "that the Thurm can easily be set in fairly large fluctuations by a single visitor" . After minor repairs, the tower had to be thoroughly overhauled in 1926.

The tower belonged to the Beautification Association until 1933, then to 1974 the Black Forest Association (which had a smaller restoration carried out in 1948 and a larger restoration in 1957/1958); since 1974 it has been the property of the city of Pforzheim. For the 100th anniversary, the tower was reopened in 1984 after a general renovation. The last renovation was carried out after damage by the hurricane "Lothar" on December 25, 1999.

Similar towers with almost the same dimensions were also erected on the Götzinger Höhe in Neustadt (Saxony) in 1883 and as a Spelunkenturm in Bad Pyrmont in 1896 .

  • Close up

  • Staircase

  • Platform with a view of Büchenbronn and Pforzheim

See also

literature

  • Dieter Buck: Sightseeing in the Ländle. Hike, discover, experience. Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen 2004, ISBN 3-87407-626-1 , p. 45 ff.
  • Joachim Kleinmanns: Look into the country. Observation towers. Jonas, Marburg 1999, ISBN 3-89445-252-8 .

Web links

Commons : Büchenbronn observation tower  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d Photo of the information board on the tower, on commons.wikimedia.org
  3. ^ Anonymos (1885): Iron observation tower near Pforzheim. Deutsche Bauzeitung 11 (90), pages 541-542.
  4. ↑ Photo of the memorial stone on the tower, on commons.wikimedia.org

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '  N , 8 ° 38'  E