Bergerturm
The Bergerturm is a listed observation tower in the municipality of Markwerben in the town of Weißenfels in Saxony-Anhalt . In the local register of monuments , the observation tower is listed as a monument under registration number 094 12987 .
The founder of the Bergerturm was Christian Friedrich Berger, farmer and lessee of the local brickworks. He had the 15 meter high tower built in 1881 at his own expense. The founder was assumed to have hidden his money there. This rumor arose in 1929 after part of the tower collapsed in March of that year and hundreds of coins were found in a copper capsule. This earned the tower the name mouse tower. The fact is that the tower could only be climbed against payment of a fee and this income was donated to the school for marketing purposes.
During the end of the Second World War, two men holed up in the tower and shot at US Army troops from there . A few years later the steps and the top of the tower were dismantled, and the tower was only restored through a private initiative. The tower has only been accessible again since 1983.
There are several memorial plaques on the tower . On a board it says BERGER TURM - ERBA. F. BERGER - MARKETING 1881 . A second memorial plaque bears the inscription Erbaut 1881 by Friedrich Berger 1818-1904 and a third contains the general data of the tower.
source
- Schillerstein , Weißenfels in the picture, accessed September 28, 2017
Individual evidence
- ↑ Small question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture March 19, 2015 Printed matter 6/3905 (KA 6/8670) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
Coordinates: 51 ° 12 ′ 58.9 ″ N , 11 ° 56 ′ 9.3 ″ E