Mouse Tower (Radebeul)

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The mouse tower around 1900

The Mäuseturm , also called Bilzturm , is a now collapsed observation tower on the edge of the slope above Schloss Lössnitz in Radebeul, Saxony (district Wahnsdorf ), which forms the border with Oberlößnitz there . The vantage point - from the edge of the slope - was completely overgrown in 2008.

The ruin stands at about 228  m above sea level. NHN above the so-called Schloss' Lössnitz, which stands at the foot of the steep slope at 170  m (220 m above ground). The junction with the Weinbergstraße below is at a height of 157  m , the Augustusweg , which runs along the foot of the steep slopes, is there at 140  m above sea level. NHN .

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Diagram of the Bilz sanatorium, the entire complex around 1900, the mouse tower at the top left, the sheet metal castle at the top right
The mouse tower as the crowning glory of the sanatorium (1908)

The mouse tower was built in 1837/1840 as an artificial ruin . The round observation tower, made of quarry stones, stands on the edge of the slope above Oberlößnitz. The then property owner Ludwig Wilhelm Tischer is said to have intended to be buried there later; he wanted him to be "... first charred in an iron retort after his death" and "that his ashes would then be sunk in this container under the tower."

The tower collapsed in 1868 and was rebuilt in 1870.

The Oberlößnitz naturopath Friedrich Eduard Bilz acquired the Mäuseturm in 1890 in connection with the acquisition of the property on Albertsberg (today Eduard-Bilz-Strasse 53), on which he opened his Bilz sanatorium in 1892 . As a lookout point, the mouse tower became one of the excursion destinations of the many paths that Bilz laid out for the guests of his Bilz sanatorium. It formed the upper limit of the property on which Lössnitz Castle was built in 1895.

Around 1995 the formerly artificial ruin was badly hit by lightning, and in 2008 it became an actual ruin due to the subsequent decay. It is available as part of the historic preservation material entity (ensemble) of former Bilz Sanatorium under monument protection . The building ruin , also designated as an individual monument , is located in the fauna-flora-habitat area Lößnitzgrund and Lößnitz slopes ( Natura 2000 area, EU registration number: DE4847304, state internal number: 159); these “west-exposed slope areas on the Bilzturm” form sub-area 3 (“Oberlößnitz-West”). This sub-area 3 also belongs to the Lößnitz landscape protection area .

  • Königsplatz after the renovation, around 1908, view to the north. Re. House Albertsberg , on the mountain the mouse tower

  • The ruins of the Mouse Tower in 2008

  • The ruins of the Mouse Tower 2010

  • warning sign

Radebeul TV tower

Already in 1953/54 was in Radebeul on the edge of the slope of the Lössnitzhöhe, next to the mouse tower, lattice tower of the decimeter - microwave link from Berlin was built, the 1,952 on the tower of Boxdorfer windmill replaced formed telephone relay station. Next to the lattice tower stood a barracks on Dammweg which, after the DFF opened as a Radebeul television station, took over supplying the Elbe Valley with VHF radio, television and long-distance telephony and could still be received on the Landeskrone near Görlitz .

In 1959, a model of the successor tower to be constructed in prestressed concrete was on view in the Post Museum of the GDR : a 165-meter-high VHF and television tower that was to be built in Radebeul during the course of the seven-year plan . Instead, the television tower in Dresden was built .

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Web links

Commons : Mouse Tower  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ordinance of the Dresden Regional Directorate for the determination of the area of ​​community importance “Lößnitzgrund and Lößnitzhangs” , accessed on June 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b c Volker Helas (arrangement): City of Radebeul . Ed .: State Office for Monument Preservation Saxony, Large District Town Radebeul (=  Monument Topography Federal Republic of Germany . Monuments in Saxony ). SAX-Verlag, Beucha 2007, ISBN 978-3-86729-004-3 , p. 108 as well as enclosed map .
  3. ↑ The Bilz sanatorium in Oberlößnitz ( Memento from January 14, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Large district town of Radebeul (ed.): Directory of the cultural monuments of the town of Radebeul . Radebeul May 24, 2012, p. 14 (Last list of monuments published by the city of Radebeul. The Lower Monument Protection Authority, which has been based in the Meißen district since 2012, has not yet published a list of monuments for Radebeul.).
  5. ↑ Overview map of the Habitats Ordinance with the drawing of the area , accessed on June 8, 2012.
  6. ↑ Reinhold Hollwitz: A slim tower on the Lößnitzhang. In: Herbert Schweiniger (Ed.): 100 Years of the Wahnsdorf School 1858–1958. Radebeul-Wahnsdorf primary school, Radebeul 1958, pp. 16-17 (with a photo of the television lattice tower next to the mouse tower).
  7. ^ Kei: TV towers in the Post Museum . In: New Germany . June 4, 1959, p. 6 ( staatsbibliothek-berlin.de ).

Coordinates: 51 ° 6 ′ 42 "  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 40"  E