Freiherr vom Stein Tower (Hagen)
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The Hagener Freiherr-vom-Stein-Turm in memory of Heinrich Friedrich Karl Freiherr vom Stein is located on the Kaisberg in Hagen-Vorhalle .
On October 19, 1856, on the initiative of Friedrich Harkort , a wooden tower was built to encourage hikers to donate.
The Westphalian Committee for the erection of a memorial for Freiherr von Stein received enough donations within these years to finally be able to inaugurate the stone tower designed by the architect Friedrich Schmidt from Haspe in the neo-renaissance style in October 1869.
The inscription reads: The foundation stone of goodness. The cornerstone of evil. The German people's gemstone. The grateful bourgeoisie in memory of the baron Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein 1869.
The Hall of Fame (with busts of Freiherr von Stein , the pedagogue Adolph Diesterweg , the school reformer Bernhard Christoph Ludwig Natorp , the industrialist Friedrich Harkort and the Hagen district administrator Friedrich Carl Heinrich Gerstein ) and a restaurant next to the tower are no longer preserved .
The tower was renovated in 2010 and has been accessible again since autumn 2017.
literature
- Dietmar Osses: “In the eternal memory of what a man's heroism can do”: the Freiherr vom Stein tower on Hagen's Kaisberg as a national liberal memorial. In: Beate Hobein, Dietmar Osses: "Until the most distant, most distant time ...", Hagen and his monuments , Hagen 1996
- Falk Wolf: The Freiherr vom Stein Tower in a “picturesque and romantic” memory landscape. In: Michael Fehr: Landschaftsbauhütte Ruhrtal. An artistic-scientific report on the Kaisberg in Hagen , Essen 2002, pp. 175–228
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Coordinates: 51 ° 23 ′ 26 " N , 7 ° 25 ′ 32" E