Jauerling lookout point

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Jauerling lookout point
Jauerling lookout point1.jpg
Construction year 1991
Previous buildings 1842, 1898
Altitude 960 m
Total height 38 m
Viewing height 31.5 m
stages 166 + 21
Entrance fee Yes
opening hours Every day
Coordinates
Sponsoring association Jauerling observation tower association

The Jauerling observation tower is a 38 m high observation tower built from 1984 to 1991 on the Jauerling near Maria Laach am Jauerling , KG Wiesmannsreith .

history

As early as 1842, there was a 7.5 meter high platform on the highest point of the Jauerling, the Burgstock. The construction of this panoramic balcony was  initiated by the neighboring Prandhof (seat: Niederanna 5) and realized by friends of the Jauerling . On 24 August 1842 two sons visited by Archduke Franz Karl of Austria (1802-1878), the wooden tower terrace and left in the way of her companions the wish that one of the names of two princes in the place spruce stone monument be erected.

In 1898, the Austrian Tourist Club built a five-story tower that was officially opened on July 24, 1898 as the Kaiser Franz Josef Jubiläumswarte . This 18 m high, completely clad wooden tower collapsed on the night of February 9th to 10th, 1949.

The Austrian Tourist Club and the Austrian Alpine Association built a new observation tower, which was opened on May 13, 1951. This tower, now 30 m high, was guyed on four sides. Nevertheless, the building was damaged in a winter storm in 1974, had to be demolished except for two floors and is now used as a warehouse.

In 1980 a Jauerling observation tower was founded , which in the following years built the 38 m high observation tower. This could be partially used from 1988, but was not fully released until 1991. In 1998 the permanent mineral exhibition in the tower opened. In 2000 the tower was completely clad with Prefa aluminum elements.

Former closest huts

In the early 1880s, the Stauferhütte was built on the Jauerling with the help of the Aggsteiner innkeeper Zauner and opened on May 25, 1884 for the benefit of the Melk and Krems-Stein sections of the Austrian Tourist Club. The house was named after the Capitular Father Vincenz Staufer (* 1821, † February 4, 1889), librarian and guest master of Melk Abbey , who had dealt with the Jauerling for decades as a historian and botanist .

Years later, the married couple Josef and Marie Rasocher ran an inn next to the Stauferhütte. On July 4th, 1920 they took over the Stauferhütte, and from 1926 the existing, adapted buildings were run as a club hut by the Austrian Mountain Association in consultation with the landlords, named Rasocher hut after the property owner Marie Rasocher. The violent death of Josef Rasocher († 1950, age 75) briefly moved both the hut and the Jauerling into the focus of public interest. The building ( Jauerling Gipfelhaus , ) appears to have been removed by the 1960s. World icon

Staufer and Rasocher hut were about 120 meters southeast of the tower buildings. The 959 meters in altitude listed on the hut stamps and in the advertising led to believe that the refuge would be on the highest point of the Jauerling. According to the cave cadastre of the Lower Austrian Atlas , the building complex was ten meters lower on sloping terrain.

Broadcasting station

In 1953 the tower received a 10 m long mast for an ultra-short wave transmitter of the ORF . This remained until 1958 in operation and then by the transmitter Jauerling of ORS replaced.

Picture gallery

  • Lookout with transmitter Jauerling

  • South-east
    view of the observation tower

  • View in northeast direction from the control room

literature

  • Andreas Brudnjak: Lookout guide for Lower Austria. 72 Lookout points and their history and construction - Volume 1: Weinviertel, Waldviertel, Donauraum-Lower Austria and Mostviertel . Kral-Verlag, Berndorf 2012, pp. 137-141, ISBN 978-3-99024-095-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lower Austria. Excursion from Her Imperial Highnesses Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Carl, sons (...). In:  Oesterreichisch-Kaiserliche privilegirte Wiener Zeitung , No. 262/1842, September 22, 1842, pp. 1936 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wrz.
  2. ↑ ev .:  Kaiser Franz Josefs Jubiläumswarte. In:  Deutsches Volksblatt / Deutsches Volksblatt. Radical medium-sized organ / telegraph. Radical Mittelstandsorgan / Deutsches Volksblatt. Daily newspaper for Christian German politics , morning edition, No. 3431/1898 (Xth year), July 22, 1898, p. 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dvb.
  3. ↑ Rudolf Kleinecke:  Opening of the “Staufer Hut” on the Jauerling. In:  Oesterreichische tourist newspaper , year 1884, No. 12/1884 (IV. Year), p. 145 f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / otz.
  4. ↑ The Rasocher house on the Jauerling (...). In:  Kleine Volks-Zeitung , No. 187/1930 (LXXVI. Year), July 9, 1930, p. 13, column 3 above. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / kvz.
  5. ↑ Rasocherhaus of Oe (Austrian) G (ebirgs) -V (ereines) on Jauerling. In:  Der Gebirgsfreund. Journal of the Oesterreichischen Gebirgsverein , year 1926, October 10, 1926, No. 10/1926 (XXXVII. Year), p. 170, column 1. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / gbf.
  6. ↑ A murder on the Jauerling. The owner of the Rasocher hut was killed . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 22, 1950, p. 6 , Mitte ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).

Coordinates: 48 ° 20 ′ 4.3 "  N , 15 ° 20 ′ 15.5"  E