Wartberg (Fichtel Mountains)
| Wartberg | ||
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 The observation tower on the Wartberg |
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| height | 628 m above sea level NN | |
| location | Bavaria , Germany | |
| Mountains | Fichtel Mountains | |
| Coordinates | 50 ° 3 ′ 41 ″ N , 12 ° 7 ′ 7 ″ E | |
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| particularities | Observation tower | |
The Wartberg is a lookout mountain with a lookout tower ( 628 m above sea level ) within the Selb-Wunsiedler plateau of the Fichtelgebirge north of the village of Grafenreuth , a district of the Thiersheim district in the Wunsiedel district .
location
The mountain can be reached from Grafenreuth or Thiersheim from a hiking car park. The Saar-Schlesien-Weg leads from Thiersheim and from Arzberg via Röthenbach to the Wartberg.
history
From 1499 to 1787, there was evidence of a guard tower on the hill as a margravial signaling station that spanned rooms and gave the neighboring control rooms fire or smoke signals when the enemy invaded. He is not listed by name in the margravial maintenance order of 1498 . The local researcher Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht drew the tower in 1800 on an orographic map of the Fichtelgebirge that he created . A rowan tree has stood in its place since 1839 and no remains of the wall can be seen. From the current observation tower , which was built in 1969 over a water tank , you have a beautiful panoramic view of the Egerland and the Ore Mountains .
An inscription on the tower reads: "Water of peace, put out the fires of war!" A 100 hundredweight stone made of syenite bears the inscription: "The fathers cleared - we plowed deeper."
literature
- Johann Theodor Benjamin Helfrecht : Ruins, antiquities and still standing locksmiths on and on the Fichtelgebirge. One try. 1795. p. 97. ( online )
- Helmut Hennig: Warthen on the mountains . In: Local supplement to the official school gazette of the administrative district of Upper Franconia . Bayreuth. No. 256, November 1998. pp. 36-38.
- Bernhard Hermann Röttger : District of Wunsiedel and urban district of Marktredwitz . The Art Monuments of Bavaria , VIII. Administrative Region Upper Franconia, Volume 1 . Munich 1954. ISBN 3-486-41941-2 . P. 354.
- Friedrich Wilhelm Singer : Home on the Hohe Warte . Thiersheim community.