Wolfgarten fire watch tower
The Wolfgarten fire watch tower , also called Eifelblick , in the Euskirchen district of North Rhine-Westphalia was a fire watch tower on the Kermeter and later a lookout tower on the southeast edge of Schleiden 's Wolfgarten district . It collapsed after a fire on June 13, 2017.
Geographical location
The tower, visible from afar, stood in the Hohes Venn-Eifel nature park about 120 m northeast of the summit of the highest elevation (nameless knoll; 527.8 m above sea level ) of the northern Eifel, partly Kermeter at about 527 m height; about 20 meters to the north of the tower is on topographic maps a trigonometric point of 527.4 m recorded height. To the south, the landscape drops with the Lompig and Großer Scheuerbach streams to the nearby Urft and to the north with the Heimbach to the Rur .
description
The wooden, approximately 30 m high and former fire watch tower, built in 1971, was, along with other towers, part of a surveillance system in the event of a forest fire hazard in the vast forests of the northern Eifel; all other towers were demolished due to their age, dilapidation and other surveillance options. There was a living room on the top floor, so that the watchtower could be manned around the clock if there was an acute risk of fire. The tower could be climbed over 94 steps and used as a lookout tower.
Web links
- Fire watch tower in Schleiden-Wolfgarten (with some visual targets), on eifel-blicke.de
- Former Wolfgarten fire watch tower (with tower photo), on geo.hlipp.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The observation tower in Wolfgarten burned down , accessed on June 13, 2017, on radioeuskirchen.de
- ↑ a b c Wolfgarten - Topographical Map 1: 2000. In: TIM-online (Topographical Information Management). District government of Cologne , accessed on April 22, 2016 .
- ↑ a b c Bernd Kehren: The fire watch tower stops. Securing work. In: Kölnische Rundschau. March 2, 2012, accessed May 29, 2014 .
Coordinates: 50 ° 35 ′ 17.7 " N , 6 ° 29 ′ 47.2" E