Kaiser-Karls-Tower (Bad Driburg)

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Kaiser-Karls-Turm; left the Sachsenklause
Bronze plaque above the tower entrance

The Kaiser-Karls-Turm is an 18 m high observation tower built between 1903 and 1904 in the Egge Mountains near Bad Driburg in the North Rhine-Westphalian district of Höxter .

The observation tower, which was named after the Frankish King and Emperor Charlemagne , is a popular excursion destination , together with the Iburg and the Sachsenklause restaurant.

Geographical location

The Kaiser-Karls-Turm stands in the middle part of the Eggegebirge within the nature park Teutoburg Forest / Eggegebirge . It is located near a 365.2  m above sea level. NHN high point northeast of the summit of the mountain Iburg ( Iberg ; 381.2  m ), which protrudes as a wooded and narrow mountain spur into the east adjoining valley of Bad Driburg. Its city center is 1 km (as the crow flies ) northeast of the tower, and 1.5 km to the west-southwest is the Hausheide ( 441.4  m ), one of the highest elevations in the Egge Mountains.

Immediately to the northeast of the observation tower is the Sachsenklause restaurant, which opened in 1925 , and to the southwest is the ruins of the Iburg ( 381.2  m ) built before 799 during the Saxon Wars of Charlemagne .

For the traffic connection of the tower see section traffic and hiking of the article Iburg (Bad Driburg)

History, description and view

The foundation stone for the 18 m high tower with sandstone masonry was laid on August 9, 1903. It was inaugurated on June 5 and 6, 1904. Above the tower entrance, a bronze plaque with a quote from Friedrich Wilhelm Weber's epic Dreizehnlinden (1878) is embedded in the sandstone wall: "Old grove, from the tops of which the Irmensäule once protruded, which, to the pain and horror of the Saxons, King Karl, dared to burn."

The tower's viewing platform can be reached via 80 steps. From there, the view falls on Bad Driburg and, among other things, the 41 km east-northeast of Solling (max.  527.8  m ) and the Lipper Bergland with the 26 km northeast of the Köterberg ( 495.8  m ). The tower can be seen from afar from the east.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Kaiser-Karls-Turm , on sachsenklause.de
  2. ↑ a b Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  3. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )

Web links

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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 51 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 22.7 ″  E