Moltketurm

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The Moltketurm

The Moltketurm is a lookout tower on the Wittekindsberg in the East Westphalian Wiehengebirge near Porta Westfalica . After overcoming 77 steps (74 of them inside), you reach the viewing platform at a height of 13.9 m. Due to the tall trees, the view of the surrounding mountains, the Weser Valley and a southern area of ​​the North German Plain is unfortunately restricted. The tower stands on the ridge directly on the route of the Wittekindsweg , the European long-distance hiking trail E11 .

history

At the highest point of the Wittekindsberg ( 281.48  m ) stands the Moltketurm, which was built in 1828/1829 as the "Wittekindsstein" observation tower , about 1 km (as the crow flies ) west of the Kaiser Wilhelm monument . It was designed as a first order signal point for the national survey on the Wittekindsberg and is an idea of ​​the chief geometer Johann Jacob Vorlaender (1799–1886). Heinrich-Ludwig Schuhmacher (1779–1856) at Gut Wedigenstein , who later raised the tower and provided it with a secure platform, was also involved in the financing . This made it available to the public. Porta sandstone was used as building material .

In 1906 it was renamed Moltketurm in honor of Field Marshal General Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke (1800-1891), who visited this area in 1852. In 1941 the municipality of Barkhausen acquired the tower for the symbolic price of 1  Reichsmark .

Web links

Commons : Moltketurm  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Moltketurm
  2. ^ Wilhelm Schröder: The charitable foundations of Heinrich Ludwig Schumacher (1779-1856) and his son Carl Wittekind (1817-1870) in Wedigenstein. In: Messages from the Minden History Society. Vol. 61, 1989, ISSN  0340-188X , pp. 91-104.
  3. Fritz W. Franz Meyer: Porta Westfalica, Links der Weser. What has been handed down and experienced from a historical space . Books on demand 2013, page 339
  4. Fritz W. Franz Meyer: Porta Westfalica, Links der Weser. What has been handed down and experienced from a historical space . Books on demand 2013, page 339
  5. Information from the information board next to the tower

Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 45.8 ″  N , 8 ° 53 ′ 25.5 ″  E