Lethwarte

Lethwarte, aerial photo (2015)

The Lethwarte is a field observatory south of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . The building is registered in the local register of monuments as an architectural monument and also as a ground monument.

The listed waiting room belongs to the Quedlinburg waiting and ditch system and represents the southern outpost of the waiting system. It is located immediately west of the road from Quedlinburg to Rieder .

The control room is 15 meters high and is made of sandstone blocks on a round floor plan. There are extensive moats and ramparts in the vicinity of the Lethwarte.

literature

Christa Rienäcker: The medieval fortifications of Quedlinburg. Field maintenance. Quedlinburg-Information, Quedlinburg 1989, p. 18.
State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , p. 290.
Hermann Lorenz: The fate of the Quedlinburger Feldwarten. 7. The Lethturm and again the Bicklinger Warte. In: Am Heimatborn 147 (November 22, 1927) pp. 605f.
Erich Keil: Leth Tower and Aholzturm. In: Am Heimatborn 172 (1928) pp. 707f.