Raiffeisen Tower

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Raiffeisen Tower

The Raiffeisen Tower is a 34 meter high observation tower at 388.2  m above sea level. NHN high Beulskopf about 5 km north of the Rhineland-Palatinate city ​​of Altenkirchen . The tower is in the Heupelzen district and is named after the social reformer Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen , who was born a few kilometers north in Hamm (Sieg) in 1818 . The widely visible Raiffeisen lookout tower was built in 1990 as a roofed timber frame tower and is one of four lookout towers in the Altenkirchen district , along with the Otto tower near Kirchen , the Barbaraturm in Malberg and the monthly Bismarck tower near Altenkirchen .

history

The first ideas for a tower on the Beulskopf date back to 1922. At that time, a Bismarck tower was thought of, which can be read in a school chronicle by Birkenbeul . In 1967 the local poet Albert Hammer founded the Beulskopf Tower Building Association in Beul with 15 founding members. In 1981, the Westerwald-Verein was won as the ideal sponsor for the tower construction project. In the summer of 1986 a three-week charcoal kiln festival took place at the Beulskopf , which awakened a new awareness of home in 25,000 visitors - and this also benefited the idea of ​​the tower. Planning, tendering and financing of the project followed, in 1990 the foundation stone was laid and the tower was built.

Technical specifications

The foundation of the Raiffeisen Tower is a triangle 17 m long and 1.5 m deep, poured from 165 m³ concrete. Of the 1987 Taunus built observation tower horse head very similar triangle wood tower has a height of 34 m (its height is indicated, according to another source with m 35) having a 30,50 m above the ground situated viewing platform in 411.5  m above sea level. NN . The visitor has to overcome 177 steps to the platform - three of them in a concrete base and 174 made of wood. The seven intermediate landings on the east side protrude about one meter from the tower. The base of the tower is 381 m above sea level. The wooden structure weighs around 35 tons.

There are cell phone antennas on the roof of the tower . With the antenna masts, the Raiffeisen tower has a total height of around 40.3 m.

view

The upper plateau is about 410  m high. To the south, east and west one looks over the front Westerwald to A3 in Willroth (Förderturm) to Montabaurer height with the Köppel Tower, the Salzburg head in the high Westerwald and Siebengebirge on the Rhine . From here you can see the Hohe Acht (747 m) in the Eifel 57 km away. In a northerly or northeastern direction you can see as far as the Bergisches Land , the Wildenburger Land, the foothills of the Rothaargebirge , the gable forest and far into the Siegerland .

Events

  • At oos on the Böijelskobb is always get loss - with us on the Beulskopf there is always something going on .
  • Nine-day festival week at the Raiffeisen Tower for the 105th anniversary of the MGC Beul-Heupelzen choral society from 4th to 12th June 2005.
  • On Saturday, June 4th, the 4th Westerwald Tower Run up the Raiffeisen Tower with 177 steps took place. The previous record for the tower run is 27.16 seconds.

Web links

Commons : Raiffeisen Tower  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Photo of the information board on the tower, on commons.wikimedia.org
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ↑ The Raiffeisen Tower on the website of the Association of Churches (Sieg)
  4. ↑ Information from the Federal Network Agency on the Beulskopf location - location certificate no. 450086

Coordinates: 50 ° 43 ′ 54.6 ″  N , 7 ° 37 ′ 30.9 ″  E