Baropurm
The Baropturm is a stone-built tower not far from Keilhau near Rudolstadt in Thuringia .
The construction goes back to the initiative of students who dedicated the tower to the teacher Johannes Arnold Barop for his 50th anniversary in 1876.
Barop agreed that a tower should be built on the Steiger , about 2 km southwest of Keilhau. However, it took some time before the project could be implemented. On the initiative of former Keilhauer, an appeal was drawn up in June 1877 asking for donations for the required construction sum of 6,000 Reichsmarks . Construction should begin in the summer of 1877 and completion was also planned for this year. Louis Junot was commissioned as the architect . The tower was inaugurated on June 10, 1878.
The Baropturm offers an impressive panoramic view of the Thuringian Forest , the slate mountains and the Ilm-Saale region. You can see many villages and towns in the area and even the Brocken in the Harz should be recognizable when the weather is clear.
statistics
- Height: 17 m
- Wall thickness: 1.10 m (below); approx. 0.7 m (top floor)
- Masonry: 323.66 m³ (from 404 m³ quarry)
- for walls: 35.5 m³ slaked lime, 5 t cement, 89 m³ sand
- Staircase: approx. 64 running meters of wood, 78 steps
Construction management: masonry by Karl Herzer (Rudolstadt), carpentry by Adolph Sonnekalb (Rudolstadt), blacksmithing by Albert Linse ( Eichfeld )
Construction contract: Federation of Former Keilhauer (BeK)
Web links
- Bernd Grießmann, Sonja Melle: Association of former Keilhauer . In: Neuer Thüringer Fröbelverein Keilhau eV, 2004, accessed on September 3, 2010
Coordinates: 50 ° 42 ′ 31.9 ″ N , 11 ° 13 ′ 51.2 ″ E