Kernerturm
The Kernerturm is an observation tower in northeastern Baden-Württemberg above the small town of Gaildorf .
location
The core tower stands on the up to 459.4 m above sea level. NHN high Kirgel , the southeastern foothills of the Mainhardt Forest , between the valleys of the Fichtenberger Rot in the south and the Kocher in the east. In the area of the tower, which is about 1.1 km southwest of the Gaildorf town center at 457.5 m above sea level. NHN high summit of the Kirgels, its meandering ridge is widened to a narrow plateau, on the northeast edge of which the tower overlooks an open ski slope down into the Kochertal. In the southwest the structure is dense, in the southeast and northwest it is surrounded by tall trees.
description
The Kernerturm is a wooden tower about 12 m high from base to top on a square stone foundation with an edge length of about three meters. A few stone steps on its northeast side lead to the door sill and to the three-part wooden internal staircase, a total of 30 steps to a 6.8 m high room, from which a curtain wall is accessible, which is reasonably protected by the eaves. A sloping roof surrounds the lower part of the tower, which provides shelter in bad weather.
There is an information board on the tower and a few lines from Uhland's poem Der Schenk von Limburg .
History and name
After a fundraising campaign by the Gaildorf local group of the Swabian Alb Association in 1902, the tower was built in the same year and inaugurated on September 14th. It was named in honor of the Swabian family of poets and doctors Kerner; Justinus Kerner was a senior doctor in Gaildorf from 1815 to 1819, his son Theobald Kerner was born here in 1817.
outlook
About the kept free ski slope down to the city you can see the step edge bay of the Kocher to the northeast around and with Gaildorf and the Limpurger mountains rising beyond . High trees currently (as of 2010) obstruct the view from the rather low tower circumference in the other directions. After clear cuts, the Rosengarten - Westheimer Bergkirche is temporarily in view about seven kilometers in the north-northwest . How to get to the tower and what other nearby viewpoints are available at the church , see there.
The tower is open on Sundays and public holidays from Easter to the end of October.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ According to TK25, see literature. Growth by visual inspection (status: 2010).
- ↑ a b c Dimensions based on privately carried out measurements and photos
- ↑ Building description based on visual inspection. Historical pictures under SAV at the web links, a more recent one under Gaildorf.
- ↑ See the web link to Gaildorf.
literature
- "TK25": Topographic map 1: 25,000 Baden-Württemberg North, single-sheet cut the numbers 6924 Gaildorf and 7024 Gschwend.
Web links
- "Gaildorf": Kernerturm on the Gaildorf municipal website
- "SAV": The Kerner Tower. A landmark of the city of Gaildorf at the Swabian Alb Association, local group Gaildorf ( Memento from July 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 48 ° 59 ′ 38.18 " N , 9 ° 45 ′ 29.66" E