Iberger Albert Tower
The Isenberg, Albert Tower is a 34.6 m high viewing tower on the Iberg in resin in Bad Grund in the district of Goettingen , Lower Saxony ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The Iberg Albert Tower is located within the Upper Harz in the western part of the Harz Nature Park . It stands north of Bad Grund on the southwest spur ( 555 m above sea level ) of the Iberg ( 562.6 m ), the summit of which is about 400 m to the northeast.
Next to the tower is the Iberger Albertturm forest restaurant . The entrance to the Iberg stalactite cave is about 550 m away from the tower on the southeast flank of the Iberg .
history
The first Iberg Albert Tower , along with a restaurant, was built in 1886 as a 20 m high wooden tower. It was soon demolished due to severe weather-related damage. Therefore, a 25 m high tower was built in 1907, which was inaugurated on May 31, 1908 with the name given. After weather damage had already become evident in 1921, the masonry began to crack in 1930. After its closure in 1954, the tower was restored in 1955 and it was given a reinforced concrete shell. In 1963 it was raised to a tower height of 34.6 m because the beech population had grown so high that there was no longer any view. In addition, the tower base was provided with a reinforced concrete jacket in 1969.
Possibility of viewing
From the Albert Tower in Iberg you can see the western Harz and the western Harz foreland: you can see the Bad Grundner Valley in the south, the Clausthal-Zellerfeld plateau and the Brocken in the east and the Markau valley in the west.
Snowman and ball fight
At Isenberg, Albert Tower is every summer in June, July and often even in August every Sunday a snowman built by the " execution " by a sword at 16:00 a snowball takes place battle. In the previous winter, the snow is stored in holes in the ground that were created by leaching in the limestone of the Iberg and covered with brushwood and straw .
hike
The Harzer Baudensteig leads past the Iberg Albert Tower . The tower is included as no. 130 in the system of stamping points of the Harz hiking pin. The 1.4 km long Iberg forest quiz path began at the tower , which led through a beech forest and at 17 stations you could learn interesting facts about native plants and animals as well as the rocks of the Harz Mountains. Currently (2015) the forest quiz path no longer exists.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Harzer hiking needle: stamp point 130 / Iberger Albertturm , on harzer-wandernadel.de
- ↑ Topographic map with the Iberg Albert Tower ( memento of the original from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Altitude according to the uppermost contour line in Ak 2.5), on natur-erleben.niedersachsen.de
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Iberger Albertturm , on iberger-albertturm.de (see register history )
- ↑ Snowball fight in summer (event dates), on iberger-albertturm.de
- ↑ Snowball fight in summer , in Waldgasthaus Iberger Albertturm (with information on snow storage in holes in the ground), on harzerbaudensteig.de
Coordinates: 51 ° 49 ′ 11.4 " N , 10 ° 14 ′ 42.7" E