Imperial Tower

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Kaisertürme and Kaiserwarten are monuments that were erected until 1918 in honor of the German Kaiser Wilhelm I. , Friedrich III. and Wilhelm II. in the German Empire or for Emperor Franz Josef in Austria-Hungary .

The erection of these towers and waiting areas was also intended to counter the so-called Bismarck cult, in the course of which, for example, hundreds of Bismarck towers and columns were erected.

Imperial towers or waiting in Germany

  • Kaiserturm (Lautertal) , in the Odenwald on the Neunkircher Höhe, near Gadernheim (Lautertal), Bergstrasse district, Hesse
  • Kaiserturm, now called Steinbergturm , in the Harz Mountains on the Steinberg, near Steinberg (Goslar), Goslar district, Lower Saxony
  • Kaiserturm (Quedlinburg) (former defense tower, currently residential tower), in Quedlinburg, Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt
  • Imperial Tower, in the Giant Mountains in Jelenia Góra (formerly Hirschberg ), Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
  • Kaiserturm, near Leutenberg , Saalfeld-Rudolstadt district, Thuringia
  • Kaiserturm (Wernigerode) , in the Harz Mountains on the Armeleuteberg, near Wernigerode, Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt
  • Kaiserwarte, now called Wilhelm-Raabe-Warte , in the Harz Mountains on the Eichenberg near Blankenburg, Harz district, Saxony-Anhalt
  • Imperial tower in the monastery Stift zum Heiligengrabe , in Heiligengrabe, Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, Brandenburg

Imperial towers and waiting areas in Austria-Hungary

  • Kaiserwarte (renamed Karl-Weis-Warte after 1918, later demolished), on the Nollendorfer Höhe , in the Eastern Ore Mountains, formerly Austria-Hungary, now the Czech Republic

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