Bismarck Tower (Delecke)
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Bismarck Tower
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| Place: | Möhnesee - Delecke | ||||||||
| Country : | North Rhine-Westphalia | ||||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||||
| Altitude : | 285.8 m above sea level NN | ||||||||
| Coordinates: 51 ° 30 ′ 15.7 " N , 8 ° 5 ′ 34.2" E | |||||||||
| Use: | Telecommunication tower , observation tower | ||||||||
| Accessibility: | Transmission tower open to the public | ||||||||
| Owner : | Soest district | ||||||||
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| Construction time : | 1914-1934 | ||||||||
| Operating time: | since 1934 | ||||||||
| Last renovation (tower) : | 1985-1987 | ||||||||
| Total height : | 18 m | ||||||||
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| Waveband : | FM transmitter | ||||||||
| Send types: | Directional radio , mobile land radio , BOS radio , relay station | ||||||||
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The Bismarck Tower in the Delecke district of the Möhnesee community in North Rhine-Westphalia is the last Bismarck Tower to be inaugurated in Germany .
Originally intended as a memorial in honor of the first German Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck , who was dismissed in 1890 , it has been used for various military and civil purposes over the years. The 18 m high listed sandstone tower has been accessible as a lookout tower since 1987.
geography
The Bismarck Tower is located on the northern edge of the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park . It stands on a hill ( 285.8 m above sea level ) of the elongated ridge of Haarstrang around 1.5 km (as the crow flies ) north of Delecke or north of Lake Möhnese . Federal highways 229 and 516 cross directly to the northwest of the tower . A few hundred meters north of the tower is Wippringsen, another district of Möhnesee.
Building history
The formation of a committee for the construction of the tower was initiated on April 15, 1912 by “approx. 150 admirers of Bismarck from the city and district of Soest ” . A landowner provided the building plot on the Haarstrang free of charge. The architect and Soest town builder Ewald Sudhoff was commissioned to design the monument and designed a 22.5 m high tower made of sandstone with a fire bowl .
The foundation stone was laid on April 1, 1914. At the beginning of the First World War in July 1914, construction had already progressed to a height of 10 m, but the outbreak of war prevented further construction, so that construction work did not resume until 1920. At that time there was also planning to build a memorial hall in honor of the soldiers who died in World War I, but this plan was rejected again. With the resumption of construction work, the planned height was also reduced to today's 18 m and the fire bowl was also dispensed with. The Bismarck Tower continued to be built until 1924, then construction work was stopped and the tower stump deteriorated into ruins.
It was not until 1933 that the Bismarck Tower was remembered and, on the initiative of the tourist office, construction work was resumed. For Bismarck's 119th birthday on April 1, 1934, the tower was inaugurated as a lookout tower after a construction period of 20 years. Between 1985 and 1987 the tower was renovated; The tower head was converted into a flat tower end and provided with a lead roof and an octagonal glass dome to protect it from the elements.
use
From 1936 to 1939 the Bismarck Tower was used by the “Marinefunkstation Mitte” of the city of Soest. After the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, an observation post of the German Air Force was housed here. From the end of the war in 1945 until 1958, the tower was closed, was not used and could no longer be entered. It was used as a relay station for radio communications from 1958, and has been used by the local volunteer fire brigade and police since the 1970s .
On April 5, 1984, the “Bismarck Tower Förderverein” was founded. Today the tower is owned by the Soest district; it is maintained by the "Heimatverein Möhnesee eV". Provided that the weather is appropriate, the tower offers day trippers a view of the Soest Börde , the Möhnesee and the Arnsberg Forest . In good weather, the Bismarck Tower is open to visitors on Sundays and public holidays from May to September.
literature
- Jörg Bielefeld: 75 years of the Bismarck Tower Delecke . in: Local calendar of the Soest district . 2009, ISBN 978-3-928295-44-4 , pp. 79-82.
