Kaiserturm (Lautertal)
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| Place: | Neunkircher Höhe , Gadernheim | |||||||||||||
| Country: | Hesse | |||||||||||||
| Country: | Germany | |||||||||||||
| Altitude : | 605 m | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 43 '8 " N , 8 ° 46' 13.3" E | ||||||||||||||
| Use: | Observation tower | |||||||||||||
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| Construction time : | 1907 | |||||||||||||
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| Total height : | 34 m | |||||||||||||
| Viewing platform: | 27.5 m | |||||||||||||
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The Kaiserturm is a 34 m high observation tower at 605 m above sea level. NHN high Neunkircher Höhe , the highest mountain in the Hessian part of the Odenwald . It is near Lautertal in the Bergstrasse district .
In the tower is "the highest economy" of the Odenwald; The tower can only be climbed for a small fee during their weekend opening times.
Geographical location
The Kaiserturm stands in the Bergstrasse-Odenwald Nature Park on the summit of the Neunkircher Höhe in the district of Gadernheim , a district of Lautertal, 2 km to the west . Nearby are the Modautal district of Neunkirchen in the north-northeast and the Lindenfels district of Winterkasten in the south-south-east and Kolmbach in the south-west.
From Gadernheim and Neunkirchen almost continuously fortified lead service roads to the tower, which are closed to public traffic. There are also other economic and hiking trails that lead from the surrounding villages and hikers' parking lots to the mountain and to the tower (see also the hiking section of the article Neunkircher Höhe ).
history
In the Year of Three Emperors in 1888, the local chapter of Darmstadt was the Odenwaldklub on the Neunkircher height by Adam Fleischman from Seidenbuch a 24-meter-high wooden tower built as a lookout tower, which cost at that time 2620 gold marks, but collapsed in a violent storm night on February 11 1904th It was named Kaiserturm in memory of Kaiser Wilhelm I.
The successor building is today's Kaiserturm, which was designed by the architects Hacker and Jaide from Darmstadt and built in 1906/07 under the direction of master bricklayer Adam Arras from Gadernheim. The cost was 30,000 gold marks. The initiators took the 25th anniversary of the Darmstadt branch of the Odenwald Club as an opportunity to officially hand over the tower to the population on July 7th, 1907 at an inauguration ceremony.
In 1970 the police installed an antenna system on the roof, which later created cracks in the tower that let rainwater in and started rotting processes inside. Starting in 1982, the tower was extensively renovated with financial support from the Darmstadt-Dieburg and Bergstrasse districts and the city of Darmstadt and reopened on October 31, 1986.
description
The listed Kaiserturm is a five-storey tower made of granite ashlars, with a core of a square floor plan with an edge length of 6.5 m. In the lower part it is extended on the north side by a porch with a monopitch roof, on the west and south side by an L-shaped staircase, which is designed as a wooden construction from about handrail height, and its roofing exactly the slope of the stairs with their landings follows. Above the windows on the fifth floor, the tower tapers slightly and is covered with a roof-shaped copper cladding up to the platform. On the west side, from a height of around 18 m, a square stair tower with a spiral staircase and a steep tent roof starts slightly protruding from the body of the tower. At the north-east corner of the tower there is a wooden extension next to the porch, which was probably added later.
The closed ground floor takes up the area of the tower including the porch and is accessible through a wooden door under the staircase. On the first floor there is a small restaurant that can be reached after 14 steps. After another 19 steps you get to the actual entrance door on the tower, which is about 6 m high on the south side. Inside, a right-hand metal staircase leads along the walls and over two further levels to the fifth floor. From here a metal spiral staircase follows to the approximately 27.5 m high viewing platform , the highest point near Lautertal; A total of 146 steps lead up. The parapet consists of four corner posts, some of which have orientation boards, and metal railings in between. An antenna mast is attached to the stair tower above the platform.
From the observation platform of the tower you can see very far over the Odenwald to the Katzenbuckel , and with good visibility over the Hessian Ried to the Palatinate and over Frankfurt am Main to the Taunus .
Web links
- Panorama from the Kaiserturm (labeling of visual targets can be activated), on panorama-photo.net
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Headlines from Bensheim on the 175th anniversary of the "Bergsträßer Anzeiger" 2007. (pdf 8.61 MB) The Odenwald Club and the Towers. P. 30 , archived from the original on October 5, 2016 ; accessed on December 28, 2014 .