Dharahara tower

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Dharahara tower
Dharahara Tower in February 2013

Dharahara Tower in February 2013

Data
place Kathmandu , Nepal
Construction year 1832 (rebuilt after 1934)
height 61.88 m
Coordinates 27 ° 42 '2.5 "  N , 85 ° 18' 42.8"  E Coordinates: 27 ° 42 '2.5 "  N , 85 ° 18' 42.8"  E
particularities
Destroyed in a severe earthquake in 1934 and rebuilt true to the original.
During the earthquake on April 25, 2015 , the base was destroyed

The Dharahara Tower ( Nepali धरहरा ), also Bhimsen Tower , was a nine-story, 61.88 meter high tower in the center of Sundhara in Kathmandu . It was built in 1832 under Bhimsen Thapa , Prime Minister of Nepal, for the Queen of Nepal and originally served as a military watchtower. Later it was used as a touristic viewing platform, which could be reached via a long spiral staircase inside. In a severe earthquake of magnitude 8.3 on January 15, 1934 with around 16,000 deaths in Nepal and India, the tower was destroyed for the first time and then rebuilt true to the original.

Dharahara Tower in the late 19th century

The tower wall consisted of a brick wall and had a thickness of about 1.5 m at the height of the first floor and an outer diameter of about 5.5 m.

In the earthquake on April 25, 2015 with a magnitude of 7.8 M W , it collapsed for the second time. About 60 dead were recovered from the rubble of the tower.

Web links

Commons : Dharahara  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Earthquake Devastates Nepal, Killing More Than 1,300. The New York Times, April 25, 2015, accessed April 26, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Gopal Sharma, Ross Adkin: Nepal seeks help, death toll seen rising after devastating quake. Reuters , April 26, 2015, accessed April 26, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Quake turns two historic landmarks in Kathmandu into rubble. Hindustan Times , April 25, 2015, accessed April 26, 2015 .
  4. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/nepal/11562988/19th-century-tower-collapses-from-earthquake-in-Nepal.html 19th century tower collapses from earthquake in Nepal, The Telegraph, April 26, 2015. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  5. ^ Information from the German Research Center for Geosciences. Retrieved April 26, 2015.
  6. ↑ Earthquake in Nepal. International aid started. deutschlandfunk.de , April 25, 2015, accessed April 26, 2015 .