Bismarck Tower (Malente)

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Postcard Bismarck Tower Malente 1916

The Bismarck Tower Malente was a lookout tower built in honor of Otto von Bismarck in the Malenter district of Neversfelde in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein . He stood on the 90 m high wooden mountain , a terminal moraine .

It was one of the eight Bismarckian columns / towers in Schleswig-Holstein , of which it is the only one that no longer exists.

history

Remnants of the foundation of the Bismarck tower in Malente (to the right the Holzberg tower )
Information about the Bismarck Tower on the information board on the Holzberg Tower (excerpt)

The plans to erect a Bismarckian column were pursued from 1902.

For lack of money, instead of the intended tower made of field stones, a closed wooden tower was built on a foundation made of field stones and inaugurated on June 28, 1908. It had a square floor plan (6 meters wide) and 28 meters high.

In 1918 the tower, which had been damaged by a storm, was demolished, only the field stone foundations remained.

Wooden mountain tower

In 2005, the wooden mountain tower was built as a new wooden observation tower right next to the foundation of the Bismarck tower in Malente .

literature

Hans Joachim Bartels: Chronicle Malente Gremsmühlen , Husum Verlag, Husum 2008, ISBN 978-3-89876-397-4

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Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 43.2 ″  N , 10 ° 32 ′ 31 ″  E