Mettnau Tower

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Mettnau Tower in the Mettnau Peninsula Nature Reserve (2008)

The Mettnau Tower is an 18-meter-high wooden observation tower on the Mettnau peninsula near Radolfzell on Lake Constance in the district of Konstanz in Baden-Württemberg .

The Mettnau Tower, which was named Dr.-Ludwig-Finckh-Turm before it was renamed by the city of Radolfzell after 1945 , was built in 1938 as a bird observation station for the then new “Reichsnaturschutzgebiet” Mettnau. The first namesake in 1940 was the writer Ludwig Finckh , who lived in Gaienhofen on the Höri . Finckh was an active member of the NSDAP from 1933 and from 1935 NSDAP and NSDAP propaganda leader of Gaienhofen. In 1961 the dilapidated tower was dismantled and rebuilt. Even after it was renamed, the locals continue to call it Finckh Tower , sometimes up to the present day ; on the occasion of Finckh's 100th birthday in 1976, an uncritical Finckh memorial plaque was placed on the Mettnauturm.

Information boards installed on the Mettnau tower provide information about the Lake Constance landscape. You can see the Lake Constance parts of Markelfinger Winkel in the north and the Untersee in the south with Lake Zell , Gnadensee and the actual Untersee . In addition to the view of the Lake Constance landscape, the tower also provides a panoramic view of the Hegau , the island of Reichenau and Switzerland with the Thurgau Seerücken , the Swiss Alps and the Säntis .

The Mettnau peninsula nature reserve is accessible all year round up to the tower .

Web links

Commons : Mettnau Tower  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cf. Georg Fahrbach : A tribute to our committee member Dr. Finckh. A "Ludwig Finckh Tower" , in: Blätter des Schwäbischen Albverein , 52nd Jg., 5 (1940), pp. 49–51.
  2. ↑ On Ludwig Finckh's Nazi ideological and propagandistic commitment in Gaienhofen and Radolfzell see: Markus Wolter: Dr. Ludwig Finckh: "Blood Consciousness". The Höri writer and the SS. In: Wolfgang Proske (Ed.): Perpetrators, helpers, free riders. Volume 5: People exposed to the Nazis from the Lake Constance area. Kugelberg, Gerstetten 2016, ISBN 978-3-945893-04-3 , pp. 78-102.
  3. ↑ Doris Burger: Mettnau Tower or Finckhturm? The late realization of a difficult past. Südkurier, April 5, 2017.

Coordinates: 47 ° 43 ′ 45.3 ″  N , 9 ° 0 ′ 10.5 ″  E