Scrap tower

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The scrap castle

The scrap tower or Schrottenburg is a shot tower in Klagenfurt cadastral Gurlitsch I .

The 67 m high tower was built from 1814 or 1818 to 1824 by Johann Ritter von Rainer zu Harbach. The tower has a square floor plan, tapers towards the top and is covered by a flat pyramid roof. On the mountain side there is a relief by Johann Ritter von Friedel . In 1830, Emperor Franz I paid a visit to the tower. It was shut down immediately after the acquisition by the BBU in 1893 or 1898. In 1927, the future mayor Adolf Wolf bought the property. He had the tower converted into a lookout tower and set up an excursion restaurant underneath, for which he introduced the name Schrottenburg . The view from the tower and restaurant over the Wörthersee is considered excellent. The hospitality industry ceased in 1970. Since then the property has been falling into disrepair. In 2005 the remains of the restaurant were damaged by fire. Efforts by the owners since 2007 to sell the listed tower have failed so far (at the end of 2016).

photos

  • Scrap tower and Friedelstrand

  • Location of the tower with the Wörthersee in the foreground

literature

  • Georg Lux, Helmuth Weichselbraun: Derelict & Forgotten - Lost Places in the Alps-Adriatic Region. Styria Verlag, Vienna / Graz / Klagenfurt 2017, ISBN 978-3-222-13551-4 .

supporting documents

  1. ↑ a b c d Dehio Carinthia 2001 , p. 403.
  2. ↑ a b c d e Schrottenburg - Krumpendorf Chronicle. In: krumpendorfchronik.at. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c woerthersee-architektur.at - scrap tower. In: woerthersee-architektur.at. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .
  4. ↑ a b c Reinhold Gasper, Friedrich Hans Ucik: The former scrap tower near the Hollenburg (Southern Carinthia) and the other scrap towers in Carinthia and Austria, which was previously unknown in the specialist literature . In: Carinthia II . 196/116 Vintage. Klagenfurt 2006, p. 85–91 ( PDF on ZOBODAT [accessed December 30, 2016]).
  5. ↑ a b Palaces and castles are looking for new owners «kleinezeitung.at. In: kleinezeitung.at. Retrieved December 30, 2016 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 46 ° 37 ′ 36.8 ″  N , 14 ° 14 ′ 35.4 ″  E