Eckersdorf ruin
The Eckersdorf ruin is a crumbled observation tower in Bożków (German Eckersdorf ) in the rural community of Nowa Ruda ( Neurode ) in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship in Poland .
location
The ruin is located on a 396 meter high hill in the southwest of Bożków in the powiat Kłodzki in the Lower Silesian Voivodeship . The hill was later named after the ruin and was given the name ruin mountain. In Polish, however, the mountain is called Grodziszcze . Approx. The Wałbrzych – Kłodzko railway runs 300 meters to the south-west .
Description of the tower
The ruin was a four-storey building with a viewing area that could be climbed by a spiral staircase. The ruin houses a smaller room on each of the top three floors; on the ground floor there was a larger room which was used as a kitchen, bedroom and living room. Some of the rooms could be heated; In total the ruin had two chimneys. There was a veranda on the tower until the early 20th century. Next to the tower was a shed that was also used as a small cattle shed.
history
The tower was built in the style of a ruin in 1801 or 1813 at the behest of Louise von Götzen , wife of Count Anton Alexander von Magnis , as a gift to her husband. Stones from a quarry on Steinberg, only a few hundred meters south, were used for the construction.
At first the tower served the count as a hunting seat. Later, the more than 20 meter high observation tower, from which a good view of the Glatzer Land was possible, with its small restaurant was a popular excursion destination.
Most of the ruin collapsed in the 1950s. Parts of the spiral staircase could still be used until the 1980s. There was never a power connection. There was also never a water connection, but water could be taken from a spring only a few hundred meters to the west in summer and winter.
Use as a residential building
The ruin was permanently inhabited for supervision until the 1940s. Visitors were allowed into the tower by the residents for a fee and, upon request, were also given drinks such as homemade raspberry lemonade or beer.
The last residents were a German miner's family until 1946.
Current condition
Little is left of the building today; Rooms in the basement are no longer recognizable or are buried under the rubble of the collapsed building sections. Only the part of the tower that contained the spiral staircase remained. The south wall of the tower is occasionally used by sport climbers, who also have attachment points for safety devices attached to the wall.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wratislaviae Amici
- ↑ Góry Sowie, Włodzickie Hills. Słownik geografii turystycznej Sudetów. T. 11, pod red. M. Staffya , Wroclaw, Wyd. I-Bis 1995, ISBN 83-85733-12-6 , p. 149.
- ↑ Wratislaviae Amici
- ^ Trave Polska
- ↑ Wratislaviae Amici
Coordinates: 50 ° 30 ′ 8.6 ″ N , 16 ° 33 ′ 25.4 ″ E