Tin castle

The Blechburg is a now ruinous, former observation tower with a lookout bastion at the northern end of the Jägerberg on Wahnsdorfer Flur. The ruin stands in the middle of a forest that has accrued in recent decades on the slope edge at about 235 m above sea level. NHN above the Villa Jägerberg , in the Oberlößnitz district of the Saxon Radebeul , in Augustusweg 110. The villa at the foot of the steep slope is 170 m (about 200 m above ground), and the road is 158 m above sea level. NHN .

The Blechburg ruins on the bastion, to the right of it the remains of the parapet can be seen (2008)

description

Hantsch's vineyard in Oberlößnitz , watercolor design for the oil painting by Woldemar Hermann, 1844

Diagram of the Bilz sanatorium, complete system around 1900, the sheet metal castle with bastion at the top right, the mouse tower on the left

Hantzsch villa with Jägerberg and observation tower. In front of it the Fiedlerbach with the Heinrich Octavius Adolph Braun-Brown house . Around 1850

Tin castle on crenellated observation bastion high above the Jägerberg. On the right is the Ermelhaus , 1903

The owner of the Jägerberg at the time , the vineyard owner and wine merchant August Traugott Hantzsch, had his Dresden architect Woldemar Hermann build a "Gothic style" lookout tower with shelter at the height of his vineyard property , roughly on a par with the Spitzhaus . The occasion is said to have been a rain shower that surprised the wine merchant couple at the height.

The "30 cubits high" ( corresponding to 17 meters ) observation tower (oriel tower) was built on an octagonal floor plan from granite blocks. It tapered towards the top and had a crenellated crown on top. On the ground floor, directly accessible, were storage and equipment rooms. The main room above with five pointed arched sandstone windows and a wooden vault could only be reached via an outside staircase. The viewing platform at the top was climbed via the attached slim stair tower with a pointed hood. In front of it there was a lookout bastion directly on the slope edge. From up there, at least according to an oil painting from 1844, you could see as far as Dresden and the Frauenkirche . Today the view is overgrown.

The Oberlößnitz naturopath Friedrich Eduard Bilz acquired the observation tower in 1895 in connection with the acquisition of Haus Jägerberg , which he made his Kurhaus IV in 1899 . The Blechburg became one of the destinations of the many paths that Bilz laid out for the patients and visitors to his Bilz sanatorium .

In 1944 the tower was set on fire by the Hitler Youth and burned down. Today only the ruins of the listed, octagonal bay tower, consisting of the outer walls, remain. The first step of the outside staircase can still be seen.

View of the broken stair tower: Below the entrance to the basement room
Remains of the former decorative wreath
Well basin at the Blechburg
Battlements of the surrounding bastion, in the 2000s without a view
View from the observation bastion of the stairs leading down to the villa and covered with rotting leaves

literature

Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 .
Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 .
Dietrich Lohse: A nameless tower in Radebeul Ost - is there anything like that? In: Radebeuler Monatshefte eV (Ed.): Preview & Review; Monthly magazine for Radebeul and the surrounding area . January 2014.
Gert Morzinek: Historical forays with Gert Morzinek. The collected works from 5 years “StadtSpiegel”. premium publishing house, Großenhain 2007.

Web links

Commons : Blechburg - collection of images

The Bilz sanatorium in the Oberlößnitz ( Memento from January 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
Hantsch's vineyard in Oberlößnitz . Photo of the painting at the Deutsche Fotothek

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c The Bilzsanatorium in the Oberlößnitz ( Memento from January 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
^ Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 92 .
↑ Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 69 .
^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 7th f . (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).

51.112569444444 13.686816666667Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 45.2 ″ N , 13 ° 41 ′ 12.5 ″ E

[isgv-1] The Bilzsanatorium in the Oberlößnitz ( Memento from January 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )

[2] Frank Andert (Red.): Radebeul City Lexicon . Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Published by the Radebeul City Archives. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, ISBN 3-938460-05-9 , p. 92 .

[3] Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (= Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 69 .

[4] Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 7th f . (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been located in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).