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Quadruple Storm
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| Place: | Willows in the Upper Palatinate | ||||||
| Country: | Bavaria | ||||||
| Country: | Germany | ||||||
| Altitude : | 633 m | ||||||
| Coordinates: 49 ° 40 ′ 25 " N , 12 ° 13 ′ 25.7" E | |||||||
| Use: | Observation tower | ||||||
| Owner : | Upper Palatinate Forest Association | ||||||
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| Construction time : | 1914-1924 | ||||||
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| Total height : | 25 m | ||||||
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The Vierlingsturm is a 25 m high observation tower at 633 m above sea level. NHN high Fischerberg , the local mountain of the independent Bavarian city of Weiden in the Upper Palatinate . The tower stands on the summit of the mountain between the village of Letzau , a district of the municipality Theisseil in the east and Weiden in the Upper Palatinate in the west, on whose boundary it stands.
history
As early as 1890, Pastor Brugglocher suggested building a lookout tower on the Fischerberg. On March 27, 1906, Kommerzienrat Otto, director of the Bauscher porcelain factory , picked up this idea again at a committee meeting of the Beautification Association. At a meeting on April 4, 1906, the members welcomed the idea. For this reason, a tower building committee was founded under the chairmanship of Kommerzienrat Otto. Further members were City Planning Councilor Kühne, the dental technician Baier and the privateer Götz. In 1907 the decision was made to build a tower. The beautification association initially made 250 marks available. After an appeal for donations in 1907, the available funds were increased to 2,040 marks. A stone substructure was planned and an iron structure above it. A cost estimate for this execution and the purchase of the property for 6,500 Marks let the donations flow no longer so abundantly and finally the efforts fell asleep. There were voices who suggested using the money to design the city park.
Only in 1914, at the request of Dean Dr. Pfeiffer to build the tower at a cost of 5500 marks and with a height of 20.5 meters. A name for the tower had also already been found; it was to be named after the Prince Regent Luitpold . A plaque with the inscription "Dedicated to the memory of the beloved Prince-Regent Luitpold von Bayern by the Weiden Improvement Association - anno 1914" should prove this. The association acquired the necessary land from the innkeeper couple Lukas in Tröglersricht and construction began. The tower was to be inaugurated in July 1914, but on June 9, 1914 the Neustadt an der Waldnaab district office stopped construction. The use of poor sand and wet stones was criticized. The Landesgewerbeanstalt Nürnberg confirmed the poor quality of the sand on the basis of samples. This report later turns out to be false. These circumstances and the outbreak of the First World War meant that the tower had to remain unfinished.
On September 20, 1921, the members of the Beautification Association decided to continue building the tower in a simplified form. For this purpose, city planner Linhardt should work out plans and the project should be advertised to the population. A new tower construction committee was founded in May 1922 with chairman Dr. Hermann Vierling, chief inspector Fleischmann, bank board member Hauer, town planner Linhardt and postal inspector Strobel, Vierling was also elected chairman of the beautification association. Vierling collected money and donations in kind from the population and organized several well-attended events. The sale of building blocks also proved to be very successful. After a short time the club had over 21,000 marks. However, inflation in 1923 rendered the money raised worthless. That's why people started collecting materials instead of money. When the mark became stable again, new donations were made. Vierling was therefore able to announce at the committee meeting in November 1923 that construction could begin next year.
On May 2, 1924, the association decided in a meeting to start construction. After obtaining the building permit from May 19, 1924, builder Peter Weiß began construction work on July 14, 1924. The tower was built at a height of 25 meters. The city was ready to approve a grant of 5,000 marks for the construction of the tower, but wanted to take over the tower as the property of the city. This request was rejected by the association. The total cost of the construction project ended up being 15,000 Reichsmarks. On September 27, 1924, Weiß handed over the finished work and the observation tower was opened on October 5.
As the tower became increasingly popular in the following years, the "Strobelhütte" opened next to the observation tower as early as 1948.
Web links
- Alois Laumer: Tröglersricht Weiden aerial view of Upper Palatinate, Vierlingsturm. In: www.oberpfalz-luftbild.de. Retrieved on December 16, 2015 (aerial photos from the Vierlingsturm).
Individual evidence
- ↑ BayernAtlas - the map viewer of the Free State of Bavaria. In: BayernAtlas . State Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying, accessed on December 14, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Vierlingsturm. In: owv-zv-weiden.de. Oberpfälzer Waldverein - Weiden branch, accessed on December 14, 2015 .
- ↑ BayernAtlas - the map viewer of the Free State of Bavaria. In: BayernAtlas . State Office for Digitization, Broadband and Surveying, accessed on July 2, 2019 .
- ↑ The long way to a wide view. Vierlingsturm on Fischerberg: laying of the foundation stone 100 years ago - chronicle. In: onetz.de. Medienhaus Der neue Tag "Der neue Tag - Oberpfälzischer Kurier" Druck- und Verlagshaus GmbH, August 15, 2014, accessed on July 31, 2017 .
- ↑ The Quadruple Storm. (No longer available online.) In: weidenline.de. Flaschel Media - freelance media designer, March 10, 2010, archived from the original on December 22, 2015 ; accessed on December 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
