Goethova vyhlídka
Goethova vyhlídka (German Goethe View ) is a lookout tower built in 1888/89 on the 638 m high Výšina věčného života (Height of Eternal Life) southeast of Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in the Czech Republic .
The tower was originally called Kronprinzessin-Stephanie-Warte or Stephaniewarte for short , was renamed to Stifterwarte after the First World War and immediately after the end of the Second World War it became Stalinova rozhledna (Stalin Tower). The listed observation tower has had its current name since 1957.
Technical specifications
- Total height: 42 m
- Height of the viewing platform: 34 m
- Number of steps to the platform: 165
- Inaccessible today for reasons of building control
history
According to tradition, the view in the immediate vicinity of Karlovy Vary was discovered by Crown Princess Stephanie of Belgium , the wife of Crown Prince Rudolf von Habsburg , who was so impressed that she suggested the construction of a lookout tower, which was financed by the Karlovy Vary city administration and was carried out. The plans for this in a pseudo-Gothic style were provided by the architects Fellner & Helmer , which had previously designed the Stephaniewarte on Vienna's Kahlenberg. After a year of construction, the inauguration of the tower took place on July 21, 1889, with lively public participation. A half-timbered café-salon with a beer garden was built next to the tower .
You can get to the lookout tower from the Karlsbader Sprudel in the city center via an approx. 3.5 km long, fairly steep hiking trail over the view of the “Three Crosses”. This long ascent was the reason why the construction of a cable car to the observation tower and the restaurant was soon considered. The First World War, however, shattered the already mature plans.
In Czechoslovakia , the tower was renamed Stifter-Warte in honor of the writer Adalbert Stifter and in 1945 it was renamed Stalinova rozhledna (Stalin Tower) as part of the personality cult around Josef Stalin . In the course of the de-Stalinization , this name was also deleted and in 1957 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was chosen as the namesake of the tower, who stayed several times in Karlsbad for a cure.
The observation tower has been a national monument since May 3, 1958.
view
From the platform of the tower there is a broad view over the city forest of Karlsbad, to the north of the ridge of the western Ore Mountains with the Keilberg , to the west of the Falkenau Basin and to the south of the Duppau Mountains .
For several years now, the observation tower has no longer been publicly accessible due to its advanced state of disrepair.
literature
- Anton Gnirs : Topography of the historical and art-historical monuments in the Karlsbad district. (Prague 1933) (= Handbook of Sudeten German Cultural History. Vol. 8). Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56170-7 , p. 107.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Gnirs: Topography of the historical and art historical monuments in the district of Karlsbad. 1996, p. 107.
Coordinates: 50 ° 13 ′ 27 ″ N , 12 ° 54 ′ 12 ″ E