Bismarck Tower (Stuttgart)

Stuttgart Bismarck Tower

The Bismarck Tower Stuttgart in the Stuttgart district Am Bismarck Tower in Stuttgart-North stands on the highest point in Stuttgart-North, the Gähkopf ( 409.5 m above sea level ), and offers a good view of the Stuttgart city area as well as distant views in all directions.

The tower is now owned by the Killesberg und Umgebung e. V. supervised.

construction

Bismarck Tower (Stuttgart) from the east.

Relief on the side of the tower

The construction of the tower was initiated in May 1899 by the student body at the Technical University of Stuttgart . It was financed by donations that were supported by student campaigns. There were also significant individual donations, for example from Adolf von Kröner . The foundation stone was laid in November 1902. The site manager was the architect Karl Heim and the builder Heinrich Nagel.

The tower is 20 m high and, like many other Bismarck towers, was built according to the award-winning design " Götterdämmerung " by the architect Wilhelm Kreis . The building material is Keuper sandstone . A square fire bowl with a side length of 1.5 m was placed on the top of the tower. A mixture of tar and kerosene was burned in this fire bowl. The fire was supplied with air through an ingenious system of pipes, which led to a flame height of 3 to 5 m. It was kindled on Bismarck's birthday, the anniversary of his death and the day the Reich was founded . From 1928 the Bismarck Tower was given a new function as a water tower .

The tower was opened on July 16, 1904 and assigned to the city of Stuttgart.

In the run-up to its 100th birthday, it was extensively renovated in 2001.

panorama

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View to the northwest

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View to the southeast

literature

Adrienne Braun: In the middle and outside. Stuttgart's quiet corners. Konstanz 2014, pages 77-81.
Max Ehrhardt: Bismarck in the national and international memorial. Thüringische Verlags-Anstalt, Eisenach u. a. 1903, 2nd part: The Bismarck column (architect Kreis) in Stuttgart .
Axel Kuhn : The inauguration of the Stuttgart Bismarck Column. In: Journal of History. Vol. 1, No. 5, 1979, ISSN 0171-953X , pp. 18-22.
Manfred Schempp: A brief history of the Stuttgart observation towers . In: Petra Kiedaisch (editor): Towers are dreams. The Killesberg Tower by Jörg Schlaich. With an essay by Christoph Hackelsberger. Ludwigsburg 2001, pages 18-25. Bismarck Tower: page 22.
Friedemann Schmoll : Eternal nation. Studies on the culture of remembrance of the empire and individual state in the Württemberg monument cult of the 19th century (= Stuttgart studies. Vol. 8). Silberburg-Verlag, Tübingen u. a. 1995, ISBN 3-87407-195-2 , pp. 386-387 (at the same time: Tübingen, Universität, Dissertation, 1993).
Sieglinde soul: Mannheim (archive soul): Bismarck tower of Stuttgart (Baden-Württemberg).
Sieglinde Seele: Lexicon of the Bismarck Monuments. Towers, statues, busts, memorial stones and other honors. An inventory in words and pictures. Imhof, Petersberg 2005, ISBN 3-86568-019-4 , p. 374.
Martin Wörner, Gilbert Lupfer: Stuttgart. An architecture guide. Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-496-01077-0 , p. 169.
Prof. Raimund Lang, "The student Baedeker - Württemberg" in "Studentenkurier" No. 2/16, p. 6f

Individual evidence

Web links

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