Vyhlídka Karla IV.
Vyhlídka Karla IV. (German lookout point Charles IV. ) Is a lookout tower built in 1876/77 on the 514 m high Jižní vrch (also Hamerský vrch) near Karlsbad (Karlovy Vary) in the Czech Republic .
The tower was originally named Franz-Josefs-Höhe and was renamed after the end of the monarchy.
Technical specifications
- Total height: 15 m
- Height of the two viewing platforms: 9 m and 15 m
- Number of steps (spiral staircase): 79
- The tower is open to the public and free of charge around the clock.
history
The beautiful view in the immediate vicinity of Karlovy Vary was upgraded for tourist purposes by the construction of a brick observation tower in the pseudo-Gothic style in the form of an Arab minaret. Construction of the tower began in 1876. This makes it the oldest observation tower in the area around Karlovy Vary. Its inauguration took place a year later under the name Franz-Josefs-Höhe . At the end of the First World War the tower was shortened to Josefshöhe and after 1945 the tower was renamed Vyhlídka Karla IV.
The observation tower has been a national monument since 1958.
view
From the tower there is a view over the city forest to the spa district of Karlovy Vary, to the north of the ridge of the western Ore Mountains with the Keilberg , to the west of the Falkenau basin and to the south of the Duppau mountains .
The observation tower can be reached in about 20 minutes from the Grandhotel Pupp . The most comfortable way leads from the middle station of the funicular to Diana through the forest up to the observation tower.
literature
- Anton Gnirs : Topography of the historical and art-historical monuments in the Karlsbad district. (Prague 1933) (= Handbook of Sudeten German Cultural History. Vol. 8). Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56170-7 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Anton Gnirs: Topography of the historical and art historical monuments in the district of Karlsbad. 1996.