Belvedere Tower (Wuppertal)

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View of the Belvedere Tower (2017)
View of the converted Belvedere tower to the east (2008)

The Belvedere Tower is a listed former observation tower in the Wuppertal district of Uellendahl-Katernberg . It originally belonged to the former 130,000 m² park of Villa Seyd and was used as a pavilion .

Building description

The tower, which was built by Carl Hermann Seyd in 1896, is around 9 meters high, has a pentagonal base and stands in a hairpin on Kohlstrasse . The tower, which is made of natural stone with buttresses on the corners of the tower and a pointed arch frieze under a flat tent roof , has two floors. On the upper floor there were originally window openings or a door opening in all of the five facade surfaces, all of which are now walled up. Through the doors one reached an encircling parapet balcony , which also has an exterior spiral staircase in steel structure could be reached.

There was also an underground passage between the tower and the villa. This head-high corridor, which began in the basement of the villa, is still in its beginnings, but the passage was interrupted by newly built residential buildings between the tower and the villa in the 1960s.

Monument protection and current condition

On June 24, 1986, the building was placed under monument protection and entered in the list of monuments of the city of Wuppertal .

From autumn 2007, the Belvedere Tower, which is owned by a real estate fund of the Goldman Sachs Group, was refitted. The tower, along with a residential and office building, had become the property of the real estate fund . For a long time it was not known whether it was just a building security measure or a restoration . The vegetation was also removed beforehand. The future of the building in its "desolate state" remains uncertain. According to a newspaper report from 2012, the owner is not willing to keep the tower. Since the city cannot take it over, a potential buyer was sought in addition to a conversation with the owners.

In December 2015 it became known that the Association for the Protection of Monuments and Preservation of Monuments in Uellendahl had taken over the building as the new owner. The development association plans to renovate the tower.

See also

Web links

Commons : Belvedere Tower  - collection of images, videos and audio files
  • Entry in the Wuppertal monument list

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Belvedere Tower on the website of the Association for Monument Protection + Monument Preservation in Uellendahl of the Uellendahl Citizens' Association. V.
  2. ↑ Something very special: the Villa Seyd on Adalbert-Stifter-Weg Westdeutsche Zeitung (online) from June 30, 2005
  3. ↑ a b c d Manuel Praest: Belvedere Tower: Uellendahl's endangered treasure. In: wz-newsline.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Manuel Praest: Belvedere Tower: The city is also worried. In: wz-newsline.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Manuel Praest: Tower rescuers want to take off in 2016. In: wz.de. Westdeutsche Zeitung, accessed on December 23, 2015 .
Remarks
  1. ↑ Still to be seen in the view under Google Earth. Accessed April 2008

Coordinates: 51 ° 16 ′ 35.1 ″  N , 7 ° 8 ′ 51.7 ″  E