Weiglwarte
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Weiglwarte
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| Place: | Dürnstein | |||||
| State: | Lower Austria | |||||
| Country: | Austria | |||||
| Altitude : | 723 m above sea level A. | |||||
| Coordinates: 48 ° 25 ′ 39.5 ″ N , 15 ° 29 ′ 11.4 ″ E | ||||||
| Use: | Observation tower | |||||
| Accessibility: | Keys available from Sandlbauer for a small entry fee | |||||
| Owner : | Austrian Tourist Club | |||||
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| Construction time : | 1881 1901 |
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| Total height : | 15.6 m | |||||
| Viewing platform: | 12 m | |||||
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The Weiglwarte is a 15.6 meter high observation tower built in 1901 at 723 m above sea level. A. high Sandl in Durnstein . The control room was named after Augustin Weigl , the father of tourism in the Wachau.
The Rossatz section of the Austrian Alpine Club , which was founded on February 12, 1881, erected the "Sandl Tower" in the spring of the same year, a wooden observation tower about ten meters high, which was covered and therefore also functioned as a shelter.
When the ÖAK section dissolved in 1892, the observation tower was transferred to the property of the Austrian Tourist Club. The control room was so dilapidated that it was decided to build a sixteen meter high stone building.
On September 8, 1901, the control room built by master builder Josef Utz was ceremoniously opened in the presence of more than two thousand guests. It got its name in honor of the 1st board of the ÖTK-Section Krems-Stein. The construction of the stone tower cost 8,600 crowns .
After the First World War, it took until 1925 before it was completely restored. In the 1970s the control room served as an amateur radio station or as a measuring station for the Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics. In addition, it serves as the holder of a cadastral triangulation point 1st order of the Federal Office for Metrology and Surveying.
Due to damage to the platform, the control room had to be closed in 1990 and after a general renovation, during which the entire platform was removed and rebuilt, it was ceremoniously reopened on March 22, 1993. Since then, the control room has also been a radio station for Energieversorgung Niederösterreich (EVN) because of its ideal location .
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. 147–147. ISBN 978-3-99024-095-3
Web link
- "Weiglwarte bei ÖTK" ( Memento from September 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive )