Mozart Tower (Darmstadt)
The Mozart Tower is located at Darmstadt Rheinstrasse 111. It was built in 1936 and is a listed building . It is an air raid shelter and anti-aircraft bunker that was also used as an evasive control center for civil defense. Originally the flak tower was named after the German military aviator Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen ("Richthofenbunker"). During the Second World War, there was an anti-aircraft gun on its roof, which was used in particular to defend the main train station and the western entrance to the city. The design of the tower corresponds to the Dietel design , a further development of the Zombeck design patented in 1937 .
During the devastating British air raid on Darmstadt on the night of September 11th to 12th, 1944, the fire fighting and rescue of trapped people was directed from here. In 1945, the surrender of the garrison of Darmstadt to the US troops attacking from the west was signed in the Mozart Tower. The tower was in 1945 on allied orders softened and since 1950 as homeless shelter used. After the homeless asylum was closed, the tower went into private ownership and was given a Mozart archive with a recording studio and event room, which gave it its new name in the 1970s. Since 2002 he has had a stainless steel tower pulpit with a cell phone mast . The tower is not open to the public. Visits are only possible once a year on the Open Monument Day .
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Similar structures
- Theresienturm , identical high-rise bunker in Heilbronn .
Individual evidence
- ^ Cultural monuments in Hesse. City of Darmstadt. ed. by the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Hesse in collaboration with the City of Darmstadt's Magistrate, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1994, ISBN 3-528-06249-5 , p. 582
Coordinates: 49 ° 52 ′ 12.2 " N , 8 ° 37 ′ 42.2" E