Starhembergwarte

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Starhembergwarte
Image of the object
Basic data
State: Lower Austria
Country: Austria
Altitude : 564  m above sea level A.
Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 17 ″  N , 15 ° 31 ′ 48 ″  E
Use: Observation tower
Owner : Austrian Tourist Club
Tower data
Construction time : 1881
1895
Position map
Starhembergwarte (Lower Austria)
Starhembergwarte
Starhembergwarte
Localization of Lower Austria in Austria
Total height 10.5 m
Viewing height 5.3 m
stages 28
Entrance fee Yes
opening hours Every day

The Starhembergwarte is a ten meter high observation tower on the summit of 564  m above sea level. A. Hohen Schlossberg above the Dürnstein castle ruins in the Lower Austrian municipality of Dürnstein and is accessible all year round. The control room in its current form was built in 1895 and is named after the landowner at the time, Camillo Heinrich Fürst von Starhemberg .

The control room can be reached on foot from the Waldschenke-Fesslhütte (a few minutes), from the Scheibenhof (½ to ¾ hours), from Dürnstein on the World Heritage Trail (1½ hours) and from Loiben (2 hours).

history

The wooden Starhembergwarte (until 1895)

The control room was built in wood by the Krems-Stein Section of the Austrian Tourist Club, which was founded in 1881/82, and was officially opened on July 16, 1882. After the timber construction was already damaged ten years later, according to the plans of the Krems city architect Josef Utz jun. a stone building was erected and opened on August 15, 1895. After the First World War , the control room was maliciously damaged and neglected. The restoration could only take place in 1925. The control room was last subjected to a general renovation in 1987/88.

literature

  • Andreas Brudnjak: Lookout guide for Lower Austria. 72 Lookout points and their history and construction - Volume 1: Weinviertel, Waldviertel, Donauraum-Lower Austria and Mostviertel . Berndorf, Kral-Verlag, 2012, pp. 151–153. ISBN 978-3-99024-095-3

Web links

Commons : Starhembergwarte  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Starhembergwarte, description at the Austrian Tourist Club on outdooractive.com , accessed on January 12, 2017
  2. ↑ Lt. Notice in the control room