Sewing room waiting room

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Sewing room waiting room

The Seweckenwarte , also Sewekenwarte , is a field watchdog east-southeast of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt . The building is registered in the local register of monuments as an architectural monument and also as a ground monument.

location

The control room belongs to the Quedlinburg waiting and ditch system and is located around 3.5 km east-southeast of Quedlinburg on the Sewecken Mountains . A little further south is Gersdorfer Burg . The Seweckenwarte is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.

History and architecture

Viewing platform
Ground level access

The control room was probably built in the 14th century and is younger than other control rooms such as Lethwarte and Bicklingswarte . It is made of shell limestone and gypsum mortar , both materials occur in the Sewecken Mountains. Other information incorrectly mentions sandstone blocks , although this building material was actually used in all other Quedlinburg control rooms. The tower has a square floor plan, with an edge length of 3.90 meters to 4.40 meters on the base and 3.80 meters to 4.00 meters on the shaft. Originally the height of the observation tower was around 10 to 12 meters, today the tower is 8.50 meters high. In the past there was a half-timbered tower on top of the tower , which contained a guard room. The control room served to warn of approaching enemies.

In the early 1990s, the control room was repaired, after which repairs had already been made in the 1960s and 1970s. The Seweckenwarte was made usable as a lookout tower by installing a level access and a spiral staircase . The original entrance was a few meters high and could only be reached with ladders. In the mid-2000s, the tower's concrete platform was given a special seal to prevent water from entering. In 2011, the west and south sides had to be renovated again, as cement-based mortar had been used during the repairs in the 1960s and 1970s , which now led to structural damage in relation to the gypsum of the tower.

The control room is always open.

literature

  • Christa Rienäcker: The medieval fortifications of Quedlinburg. Field maintenance. Quedlinburg-Information, Quedlinburg 1989, p. 18.
  • State Office for the Preservation of Monuments of Saxony-Anhalt (Ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 290.
  • Hermann Lorenz: The fate of the Quedlinburger Feldwarten. [4] 5. The waiting room in the stone wood. In: Am Heimatborn 141 (October 11, 1927) pp. 581f.

Web links

Commons : Seweckenwarte  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 290
  2. ↑ Short question and answer Olaf Meister (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Prof. Dr. Claudia Dalbert (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen), Ministry of Culture February 25, 2016 Printed matter 6/4829 (KA 6/9061) List of monuments Saxony-Anhalt
  3. ↑ Seweckenwarte on warttuerme.de
  4. ↑ State Office for the Preservation of Monuments in Saxony-Anhalt (ed.): List of monuments in Saxony-Anhalt. Volume 7: Falko Grubitzsch, with the participation of Alois Bursy, Mathias Köhler, Winfried Korf, Sabine Oszmer, Peter Seyfried and Mario Titze: Quedlinburg district. Volume 1: City of Quedlinburg. Fly head, Halle 1998, ISBN 3-910147-67-4 , page 290
  5. ↑ Gerd Alpermann, Wrong Mortar Destroys Fugen in Mitteldeutsche Zeitung , published online on July 26, 2011

Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 13.7 ″  N , 11 ° 12 ′ 28.1 ″  E