Quistorpturm

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Quistorpturm

The Quistorpturm , Johannes-Quistorp-Gedächtnis-Turm or Johannes-Quistorp-Turm near Stettin was a lookout tower that was built in memory of Johannes Quistorp .

History and description

Martin Quistorp had the tower built in honor of his father in what was then Quistorp Park. This facility was reached from downtown Szczecin in a north-easterly direction via Kaiser-Wilhelm-Straße, which merged into Quistorp-Aue.

The building was designed by Franz Schwechten . Construction began in 1899.

The tower had a neo-Romanesque base made of granite blocks that had been extracted from the Rügen quarries. The area around the tower is named after Arkona , the location of the Svantovit temple on Rügen: Lasek Arkonski. When the tower was built, the forest was called Eckerberger Wald.

The base of the tower contained a café. The corner pillars of the plinth carried two allegorical representations of trade and industry that Ludwig Manzel had created out of concrete . On the granite base of the actual tower, from standing bricks brick neo-Gothic building that was partly decorated with ceramics.

Peer Zietz said that the building was "politically explosive" because such monuments were "actually reserved for monarchs and statesmen in the German Empire". In addition, the Quistorpturm was very similar to the Kaiser Wilhelm Tower on the Karlsberg near Berlin . Both towers were provided with inscriptions that commemorated the honorees, both were equipped with a memorial hall for the deceased, in which his bust was placed.

In 1945 the Quistorpturm was largely destroyed; The base floors and part of the brick walls have been preserved. One of Manzel's concrete figures is said to have been stolen much later.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Contributions to the genealogy of the Quistorp family. The Stettiner Zweig , 2008, p. 117 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ a b Peer Zietz: Franz Heinrich Schwechten. Edition Axel Menges, 1999, ISBN 978-3-930-69872-1 , p. 35 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  3. ↑ a b Ewa Maria Slaska, Quistorp, Rembas and Slaska , February 17, 2017 on staedtepartner-stettin.org

Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '53 "  N , 14 ° 30' 58"  E