Bismarck Tower (rose garden)
The Bismarck Tower in Rosengarten stood on the southern outskirts of Hamburg in the Harburg district on the Kiekeberg in Rosengarten in the Vahrendorf district . It was built from clinker and sandstone in the course of the Bismarck worship in 1912 . One did not follow the type design Götterdämmerung by Wilhelm Kreis , but an individual design Kreis'. The tower was built as the most expensive Bismarck tower in what is now the state of Lower Saxony for 50,000 marks and was 23 m high. A fire bowl was attached to the top of the observation tower .
It was blown up by German troops on April 20, 1945 to prevent the advancing British army from occupying the tower as an artillery observation point.
Counter monument in Langenrehm
A year before the completion of the Bismarck tower, consecrated a group to the anti-Prussian "Hannoversche Club" to Harburg on the Vogelhütte mountain in Langenrehm her prince monument in memory of the last King of Hanover George V a.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 26 ′ 20.5 " N , 9 ° 54 ′ 7.2" E