Ringberg (Wartburg district)
| Ringberg | ||
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.jpg) View from Ruhla to the north to the Ringberg |
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| height | 638.9 m above sea level NHN | |
| location | near Ruhla , Wartburgkreis , Thuringia ( Germany ) | |
| Mountains | Western Thuringian Forest | |
| Dominance | 2.2 km → Breitenberg | |
| Notch height | 80 m ↓ at the former Hubertushaus | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 54 '18 " N , 10 ° 21' 25" E | |
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| particularities | Carl-Alexander-Tower ( AT ) | |
The Ringberg with the Carl-Alexander-Turm is 638.9 m above sea level. NHN high mountain in the Thuringian Forest near Ruhla in the Wartburg district , Thuringia . Apart from a few castle towers and monuments, the Alexander Tower on its summit is the only preserved historical observation tower in the western Thuringian Forest. It offers a good view of the Thuringian Forest (with Inselsberg ), Eisenach with the Wartburg , the Hörselberge , the Thuringian Rhön , the Hohe Meißner , the Hainich and the city of Ruhla at its feet. When visibility is good, the Brocken in the Harz can also be seen. Until 1954 he was also greeted by his “younger brother”, the Karl-Alexander-Turm , built in 1890 on the Heldrastein near Treffurt , it was dedicated to the same prince.
The mini-a-thür model park and the Alexanderturmbahn summer toboggan run are located at the foot of the Ringberg .
History of the Carl Alexander Tower
For the 50th anniversary of the reign of Grand Duke Carl-August , a viewing pulpit was built on the Ringberg in 1825. In 1867, Alexander Ziegler had an 18 m high wooden tower built by the master builder Eduard Müller from Dresden, which he named after Grand Duke Carl Alexander . Ziegler had a mailbox attached to the tower with the request that visitors should put their cards in there with addresses. When the then General Post Director Heinrich von Stephan visited the tower on a hike, he wrote the following verse:
“A mailbox stands lonely on Thuringias Höh'n,
There are 30,000 in the empire, but none is so beautiful,
Here some joyful spirits were
awakened to lust and jokes ,
But never with a heavy heart
a letter put into it,
Here natural
beauty subdues the clever in the storm -
Cheers to you, brave Ziegler,
from the Alexander Tower "
This tower collapsed in a storm in August 1896. A year later, today's 21 m high iron tower with 111 steps was built by the Eisenach company Wilk and inaugurated on August 15, 1897. The Carl-Alexander-Turm-Verein was founded in 1889 . The Thuringian Forest Association renovated the tower in 1932. The tower was given a new coat of paint in 1952 after a collection among the population by the Kulturbund and the city council.
In 1956 the tower finally became the legal entity of the city of Ruhla. The construction of a new refuge was also planned, as the old one had fallen apart in the early 1940s. In 1959 a general overhaul and a partial renovation of the tower were carried out. The costs of over 8,000 marks could be covered by donations. The building shed remained as a shelter. More repairs and a new coat of paint were due in August 1975, the costs amounted to 10,000 marks. A general overhaul was carried out from March to August 1989: all steps and platforms were renewed, and in some cases new struts and girders were installed. The foundation was also built and the paintwork renewed. Panorama boards for all directions were installed in 1992.
In 1994 a new refuge was built by the city of Ruhla and the tower was renovated for the 100th anniversary in 1997. Since then, the tower has been illuminated for advertising purposes. On September 20, 1997, the celebrations for the 100th anniversary took place.
literature
- Hartmut Stabe: Towers in the Grand Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach - Discover - Visit - Hike . Weimar 2005. ISBN 3-930687-46-1 . About the Carl Alexander Tower: pp. 63–79.
Web links
- All-round view from the Carl-Alexander-Turm (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ The hero stone. Ringgau-Datterode 1997. p. 86. ISBN 3-930342-06-5
- ↑ Manfred Stephan: "You can see numerous boxes hanging". A brief cultural history of German mailboxes . Transpress, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-344-00163-6 , pp. 150-151.
- ↑ According to the information on the information board on the tower