Elisabethwarte

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Elisabethwarte (after the renovation in spring 2017)
Rock the Sissi - children climbing on the south-east wall of the observation tower

The Elisabethwarte is an 18.5 m high observation tower on the Plattenberg (750 m) in the Grub district of the Lower Austrian municipality of Weistrach , not far from Kürnberg . The control room is listed by name in ÖK 50 and is briefly described in Dehio Niederösterreich Süd der Donau 2003 .

history

As early as the 19th century there was a simple wooden control room on the Plattenberg. Today's Elisabethwarte was opened on September 23, 1900. It was named after Empress Elisabeth , who was murdered in 1898. The control room was built by the Austrian Tourist Club , Section St. Peter / Seitenstetten, and handed over to the Austrian Alpine Club , Section St. Peter in der Au in 1976 . A total of 82 steps lead to the viewing platform, from which one has a unique view over the Alpine foothills: the view stretches from the Dead Mountains in the south to the Danube Valley , and in good weather you can see Linz.

The control room is a 5-storey crenellated tower. Above the portal is a bust of Empress Elisabeth made by the academic sculptor Paul Kohl .

As part of a Leader project with the project name Rock the Sissi , the control room was not only renovated in spring 2017, but also expanded into a tower that can be climbed on three sides. Furthermore, in the course of the project, a tourist concept was developed with the aim of making the rural region around the Elisabethwarte more accessible for tourism.

  • Emergency money from GM Weistrach (back) from 1920 with a drawing of the Kaiserin-Elisabethwarte from the Plattenberg

  • Historical view of the Kaiserin-Elisabethwarte on the Plattenberg

literature

  • Josef Mayr: The "Kaiserin-Elisabeth-Warte" on the Plattenberg in the municipality of Weistrach . Local history supplement to the official gazette of the District Commission Amstetten, No. 299, September 21, 1995.
  • Peter Aichinger-Rosenberger: Dehio manual of the art monuments of Austria: Lower Austria south of the Danube. Berger, 2003. p. 2585.
  • The Empress Elisabethwarte on the Plattenberg. In: Austrian Tourist Newspaper, No. 4.

Web links

Commons : Elisabethwarte  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elisabethwarte> Climbing experience "ROCK THE SISSI" on the website of the municipality of Weistrach
  2. ↑ Membership newspaper of the Austrian Tourist Club Vienna, 1899, No. 10, pp. 113–114.

Coordinates: 48 ° 0 '53.3 "  N , 14 ° 32' 54.1"  E