Bismarck Tower (Göttingen)

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Bismarck Tower

The Bismarck Tower in Göttingen is a 31 meter high four-storey observation tower on the Kleperberg .

In the 1880s, the Göttingen Beautification Association planned to build a viewing tower on the Kleperberg (332 m above sea level), which was then still unwooded. During the planning phase, it was decided to name the tower after the former Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , who started studying law at the University of Göttingen in 1832/33 . In May 1892, Bismarck gave his consent.

In 1892, when the foundation stone was laid, construction began on the tower. The design by the building officer Heinrich Gerber envisaged a hexagonal main tower (21 meters high) with an attached round stair tower (31 meters). The architect Conrad Rathkamp implemented this design and the construction of the tower in the historicist style was carried out between 1894 and 1895. A Bismarck memorial room was set up on the second floor. The tower was inaugurated on June 18, 1896.

Memorial room

The cost of building the tower of over 43,000 marks could be raised by a specially founded private association. Some student associations such as the Corps Hannovera and Saxonia but also the Brunsviga fraternity , whose boards of donors can still be found in the tower to this day, were involved.

With its location on the 332 meter high Kleperberg, the Göttingen Bismarck Tower is the second highest in Lower Saxony after the Bismarck Tower near Bad Lauterberg . From here you can see the extensive mountain plateau of the Göttingen Forest in the east, the mountains of Eichsfeld and the Werra Mountains (Hörnekuppe, Meißner, Bilstein) in the south, the Weser Mountains in the west and the Harz (Brocken) in the north.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bismarck Tower, Göttingen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bismarck Tower (homepage of the City of Göttingen) , accessed on August 1, 2013

Coordinates: 51 ° 31 ′ 36.1 ″  N , 9 ° 58 ′ 10.5 ″  E