Carving tower

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Carving tower
Image of the object
Basic data
Place: Stansstad
Canton: Nidwalden
Country: Switzerland
Altitude : 435  m
Coordinates: 46 ° 58 '51.2 "  N , 8 ° 20' 15.6"  E ; CH1903:  six hundred and sixty-eight thousand four hundred  /  203706
Use: Observation tower
Accessibility: Observation tower open to the public
Tower data
Construction time : 1315
Building material : stone
Total height : 18  m
Viewing platform: 16  m
Position map
Schnitzturm (Canton of Nidwalden)
Carving tower
Carving tower
Localization of the canton of Nidwalden in Switzerland

The Schnitzturm is a sight in Stansstad , a political municipality in the Swiss canton of Nidwalden .

The former defense tower and today's observation tower was built between around 1310 and 1315. For centuries it was part of an extensive lakeside fortification; this stretched from Harissen Bay to today's Garnhänki on the Alpnachersee shore on Lake Lucerne .

Today the landmark is owned by the municipality of Stansstad. Originally, two thirds of it belonged to the canton of Obwalden and one third to the canton of Nidwalden; 1997 Obwalden donated its part to the local community. The carving tower can be found in the Stansstad coat of arms. The tower is a listed building and entered on the list of cultural assets of national importance in the canton of Nidwalden .

  • Carving tower (water side)

  • Carving tower

  • Stairs

  • Viewing platform

  • inside view

  • The carving tower in the municipal coat of arms of Stansstad

Trivia

The carving tower is exhibited as a model replica in the Swissminiatur open-air miniature facility in Melide as building no.28.

Web links

and display information about the image
360 ° panorama from the Schnitzturm