Krawutschketurm

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Lookout tower seen from the southeast

The Krawutschke Tower in North Rhine-Westphalia Düren is a lookout tower on the Rureifel between Bergstein and Zerkall located and 400.8  m above sea level. NHN high castle hill .

History and description

According to the vernacular , an observation tower was built on the castle hill in 1911 on the remains of the former Berenstein Castle. In 1934 a new tower was inaugurated, named after the Eifel hiker Franz Krawutschke , called the Krawutschketurm and also served as a fire watchtower . It was badly damaged in the Second World War (1939-1945) and fell victim to a forest fire in 1945.

In 1956 the symbolic laying of the foundation stone for a new observation tower, which was financed by the municipality of Hürtgenwald, the Eifelverein , the district of Düren and the state of North Rhine-Westphalia , was not built until 1972 with the same name. It stands a little east- south- east of the mountain summit at an altitude of 400.5  m and was inaugurated in 1973. With the substructure, it is 13  meters (m) high. It has three platforms on top of each other, each 3 m apart. 76 steps lead to the top platform.

From the beginning of July 2005 to the beginning of November 2006 the tower was closed by the municipal administration. The reason was a check of the traffic safety , during which defects in load-bearing wooden elements were found. Therefore, it was renovated for around 65,000 euros.

Opportunities for viewing

From the observation deck of the tower looks offer the Rureifel landscape: the dam Obermaubach with upper and Untermaubach and Düren in the north to beyond the Rur lying Burg Nideggen in the east-southeast, according to Schmidt in the southwest, by Bergstein and Vossenack the west and Brandenberg in the west northwest. In good visibility conditions, the view extends to the Cologne Cathedral and the Hohe Acht , the highest mountain in the Eifel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Information board at the Krawutschketurm

literature

Coordinates: 50 ° 41 ′ 40.3 "  N , 6 ° 26 ′ 31.9"  E