Bismarck Tower (Weißenburg)

Bismarck Tower (2012)

The Bismarck Tower near Weißenburg is located above the south-western steep slope of the 603.4 m above sea level. NN high Rohrbergs near the city of Weißenburg in Bavaria in the central Franconian district of Weißenburg-Gunzenhausen , about one kilometer from the Hagenbuch district.

However, the Bismarck Tower is not located in the Weißenburg urban area, but belongs to the Weiboldshausen district , a district of the Höttingen community . The building is registered under the monument number D-5-77-141-39 as an architectural monument in the Bavarian monument list.

history

The Weißenburg Bismarckian Column is the penultimate one that was built according to the Götterdämmerung design by the architect Wilhelm Kreis , which was awarded by the German Student Union . From 1900 there were plans to build a Bismarck monument , which could only be realized after the establishment of the association for the erection of a Bismarck tower on the Wülzburg in 1904. For optical reasons, the Bismarck Tower was not built on the nearby Wülzburg , but on the Rohrberg. The monument, financed by donations , was completed on March 16, 1911 and cost around 14,500 marks . Since then it has belonged to the city of Weißenburg. At the opening there was a fire damage of 100 marks. In 2002 the tower was renovated.

Building description

The 12.65-meter-high tower has a base a two-stage, 49-square-foot, square pedestal on which the tower base rises. The tower has 46 steps and there is a fire pit on the viewing platform. It is made of dolomite and limestone . An imperial eagle , a Bismarck coat of arms and the Weißenburg city coat of arms are attached to the column.

literature

Gotthard Kießling: Weissenburg-Gunzenhausen district (= Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation [Hrsg.]: Monuments in Bavaria . Volume V.70 / 1 ). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-87490-581-0 , p. 316 .