Graduation tower (Schönebeck)
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 56.5 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 24.2 ″ E
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The Schönebeck graduation house is located in the spa gardens of Bad Salzelmen , a district of Schönebeck (Elbe) in Saxony-Anhalt .
The graduation house , which the Prussian state had built between 1756 and 1765 (interrupted by the Seven Years' War ) to increase the salt content of the brine in the immediate vicinity of the Elmen brine springs , originally had a length of 1323 meters. The construction plans, which the mathematician Leonhard Euler had checked, worked out from Eschen by the chief miner Jacob Sigismund Waitz . The facility, which was a technical masterpiece, was finally extended to 1,837 meters, making it the largest graduation tower ever built. It lost its economic importance after the completion of the Schönebeck salt mine and the transition to the spraying process for brine extraction in underground mining .
From the former length there are still 300.4 meters today. On the graduation house there is a clock tower and a replica of a former windmill for brine extraction. The former course of the graduation tower is still recognizable as a rampart over the entire former length, which runs along Eggersdorfer Straße from Solequell to the driveway to Bierer Berg . The graduation house itself is now used exclusively for outdoor inhalation . For this purpose, brine is trickled out from a deep well below the spa gardens. Medical inhalation is also possible in an inhalatorium attached to the southwest of the graduation tower. The graduation tower can be climbed in guided groups.
literature
- City of Schönebeck (Ed.): 775 years of Schönebeck on the Elbe. Schönebeck: Schlüter printing works, 1997.
