Pfannenberg Tower
The Pfannenberg Tower is a 19.69 m high observation tower on the Pfannenberg (called Pfannenbergkopf or Pfannenberg Kopf ), built in 1934 . It is located near Eiserfeld in the city of Siegen in the Siegen-Wittgenstein district of North Rhine-Westphalia ( Germany ).
Geographical location
The Pfannenberg tower is 2.2 km south-southeast of the southern Siegen district of Eiserfeld on the summit of the Pfannenberg, which is 499.2 m above sea level. NHN highest mountain in the city. A few meters south past the tower, the border to the municipality of Neunkirchen , whose district Salchendorf is located 2.3 km south-southeast of the tower, runs across the summit region of the mountain .
history
The steel lattice tower consists of a former winding tower from the Pfannenberger Einigkeit mine in Salchendorf and was built there in 1898 to replace the old scaffolding. After the old shaft collapsed in 1927 , the scaffolding was demolished in 1932. After approval was granted on August 21, 1933 by the Haubergsgenossenschaft Eiserfeld, which made the area on the Pfannenbergkopf available, and the building permit was granted in October 1933, the 13-ton tower was rebuilt in its current location in 1934 as a lookout tower Inaugurated June 1934 with a large participation of the population.
In the following decades the tower was exposed to increasing deterioration due to the weather, including rust. In 1966 this led to the Eiserfeld office forbidding its use. Repair work was carried out with the city of Eiserfeld and the municipality of Salchendorf bearing half of the costs. However, in 1975 the city of Siegen ordered the tower to be closed again.
The tower, which had previously been owned by the home clubs Eiserfeld and Salchendorf, was finally transferred on February 10, 1979 to the Sauerland Mountain Association (SGV) , District Siegerland e.V., in order to be able to guarantee the financing of a further renovation . V. The subsequent repairs meant that the tower's 50th birthday could be celebrated at a tower festival in 1984.
The tower has been a listed building since 1993 and was renovated again in 1999. The North Rhine-Westphalia Foundation (NRW Foundation) paid 80,000 DM of the cost of the repair, calculated in a cost estimate, of DM 136,000 . A bronze plaque from the NRW Foundation is attached to the base of the tower, the inscription of which explains its history.
Opportunities for viewing
From the lookout pulpit ( 518.69 m ) of the tower large parts of the Siegerland in the north and south, the Rothaargebirge in the northeast and the Westerwald in the south can be overlooked. When the visibility is good, the Siebengebirge and there in particular the Drachenfels can be seen.
literature
- Ute Bosbach: Searching for traces in Eisenland - on the way on ore roads and miners' paths . amadeusmedien, 2006, ISBN 3-9808936-8-5 .
- Siegerländer Heimat- und Geschichtsverein eV, Verlag für Heimatliteratur (Hrsg.): Viewing tower with history, in: Siegerländer Heimatkalender 2000, 75th edition, p. 136
Web links
- Pfannenbergturm ( SGV district Siegerland e.V.) , on sgv-siegerland.de
- SGV observation tower Pfannenberg Kopf , tower information on private homepage
- Pfannenberg Tower. In: Structurae
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Pfannenberg head observation tower , information board on the tower, at commons.wikimedia.org
- ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
- ↑ Eventful history ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Siegener Zeitung , July 15, 2010, p. 10
Coordinates: 50 ° 48 ′ 55.9 ″ N , 8 ° 0 ′ 7.4 ″ E