Steinholzwart
| Steinholzwart | ||
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 Steinholzwart - east facade (July 2013) |
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| Creation time : | 14./15. Century | |
| Conservation status: | well preserved | |
| Standing position : | urban structure | |
| Construction: | Sandstone cuboid | |
| Geographical location | 51 ° 49 '3.9 " N , 11 ° 6' 14.6" E | |
| Height: | 179 m above sea level NN | |
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The Steinholzwarte is a field observatory northwest of the city of Quedlinburg in Saxony-Anhalt .
location
The control room belongs to the Quedlinburg waiting and ditch system and is located near the Steinholz-Linden on the Petersberg at a height of 179 meters in the Steinholz . It is registered in the Quedlinburg monument register.
History and architecture
The control room was in the 14./15. Built in the 18th century from sandstone blocks and maintained by the city of Quedlinburg. It was occupied longest of all field guards, until the middle of the 16th century. On the basis of council bills the regular wage payments are documented up to 1560, from which it can be seen that two tower guards who lived here all year round were employed. From the control room, they monitored a hilly section of terrain on the north-western boundary of the field. As a shelter, the stone wood guard also offered protection to the workers who worked here in the quarry, which is far from the city.
The tower is 11.3 meters high and has a square floor plan with an edge length of around 4.15 meters. Originally, the entrance to the tower was about 7.20 meters high. The entrance that is now at the base of the tower was only added at the end of the 1890s. The Beautification Association , chaired by Mayor Ernst Bansi , financed the conversion of the observation tower into a lookout tower, making it accessible to hikers. The view from the tower allows a view of some valleys reaching far to the west.
The control room is always open. However, the view from the tower is restricted by the dense tree growth in the immediate vicinity of the tower.
In the vicinity of the tower there are old trenches and ramparts that represent the remains of the land defense systems.
literature
- Christa Rienäcker: The medieval fortifications of Quedlinburg. Field maintenance. Quedlinburg-Information, Quedlinburg 1989, pp. 19-21.
- 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 f.
- Hermann Lorenz: The fate of the Quedlinburger Feldwarten. 9. The control room in the stone wood. In: Am Heimatborn 157 (January 31, 1928) pp. 645f.
Web links
- Steinholzwarte at warttuerme.de
- Pictures of the stone wood waiting area
- AK Quedlinburg, Gasthof zum Steinholz, Steinholz-Warte
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walls, towers, rocks and lots of sand - hike on October 7, 2012 ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at Anhaltweb.de, accessed on May 18, 2015.
