Kaiserturm (Wernigerode)

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Kaiserturm in winter

The Kaiserturm is a lookout tower at 477.8  m above sea level. NHN high Armeleuteberg , which rises south of the core town of Wernigerode in the Harz district of Saxony-Anhalt .

The tower was designed by the builder Paul Kilburger from the Princely Stolberg, financed by the Wernigerode hotelier Edmund Lührmann and built between May 29 and September 1, 1902 in honor of Kaiser Wilhelm II . The building blocks come mainly from the Königsberg quarry near Schierke . In 1992 the 12 m high tower was completely renovated and made accessible again.

The view from the tower extends to the northern Harz up to the Brocken , the Büchenberg and the Harburg . The view to Wernigerode with the Wernigerode Castle is particularly striking .

Since 2014 the Kaiserturm as Rapunzelturm has been the end point of the Wernigerode fairy tale trail , which runs from the Hasseröder holiday park to the poor people's park.

Individual evidence

  1. Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ^ Contributions to the history of the city and monastery of Essen . Historical Association for the City and Monastery of Essen, Essen 1973, p. 87 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. The Kaiserturm on the Armeleuteberg , on harzlife.de
  4. Walther Grosse: History of the city and county of Wernigerode in their forest, field and street names . In: Research and sources on the history of the Harz region . tape 5 . Self-published, Wernigerode 1929, p. 42 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. The Königsberg quarry. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 15, 2010 ; Retrieved January 14, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on ig-hsb.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ig-hsb.de

Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 59 "  N , 10 ° 46 ′ 52.7"  E