Dronketurm
The Dronketurm (Adolf-Dronke-Turm) is a free-standing observation tower near Schalkenmehren in the Vulkaneifel district in Rhineland-Palatinate . The Grade II listed building is 10.5 meters high and stands on the highest point of the three-Maare-area, the southeast of the Gemündener Maar located 561.2 meters above sea level. NHN high Mäuseberg. Both the Gemündener Maar, which is 166.5 m below the platform of the tower, and the Weinfelder Maar can be seen from the tower's viewing platform . From there you also have a panoramic view of the entire volcanic landscape around Daun , and in good weather even as far as the Hunsrück . The tower was built from 1900 to 1902 as a memorial to Adolf Dronke , the founding father and chairman of the Eifelverein founded in 1888 .
The 11th stage of the Eifelsteig long-distance hiking trail leads from Daun over the Mäuseberg, past the Dronketurm and on to Manderscheid .
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- ↑ a b General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (Ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - Vulkaneifel district. Mainz 2020, p. 47 (PDF; 4.6 MB).
- ↑ Dronketurm on eifel.de
- ↑ Map service of the landscape information system of the Rhineland-Palatinate nature conservation administration (LANIS map) ( notes )
- ↑ Dronketurm near Schalkenmehren. (No longer available online.) State Office for Surveying and Basic Geographic Information Rhineland-Palatinate, archived from the original on March 5, 2016 ; accessed on November 2, 2017 .
- ^ Eifelsteig stage 11 on the website of Eifel Tourismus (ET) GmbH
Coordinates: 50 ° 10 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 6 ° 50 ′ 31.9 ″ E