Glockenberg plant

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Remnants of the Glockenberg plant
Devil's Staircase
Memorial plaque at the western end or the beginning of the Teufelstreppe on the footpath next to the B42 with the inscription Hptm v. Mch / Mstr Crimea / 1865
The Pfaffendorfer Höhe system on the right bank of the Rhine with the Glockenberg plant (lower left center)
View of the Glockenberg plant at its current location on Rudolf-Breitscheid-Strasse.

The Glockenberg plant was part of the Prussian fortress Koblenz and belonged to the Pfaffendorfer Höhe system . Built by the 1822 and in the 1920s demolished factory are in today Koblenz district Asterstein receive only remnants and part of the Devil's Ladder.

history

The Glockenberg plant was built in 1822 south of Fort Asterstein as a two-story tower in the shape of a half-plan . The plant was abandoned in 1900 and the wall leveled after 1906. After the First World War , the complex, like the other fortress works in Koblenz, had to be softened in accordance with Article 180 of the Versailles Treaty . The trench walls, two trench weirs , two ammunition rooms, a caponier , etc. were planned for destruction . The connection to Fort Rheinhell was to be provided with breaches. The Koblenz Entfestigungsamt Koblenz submitted a maintenance application for the tower and the staircase to the Horchheim gate fortification (the so-called devil's staircase ).

The work on the Glockenberg began on April 18 and was reported as finished on July 13, 1927, subject to the still pending decision on the maintenance application, which was finally granted. Most of the remains of the facility, mainly the tower, were removed in 1935. When the property was rebuilt in the 1950s by the new owner, the municipal green space and cemetery office under the direction of Hans Wilhelm Mutzbauer , part of the cellar vault was built over, which means that the former kitchen rooms of the original tower and that used as a storage room The basement of a two-story extension from 1864. There is also a memorial plaque with the inscription Hptm. Sntg. / Pr Lt. Frdhm. / Mstr. Mcklr. / 1864 (= Captain Sontag / Premier-Lieutenant Friedheim / Master Maeckler / 1864). There is also an unspecified, four-meter-long wall in the area of ​​the former trench leading to Fort Rheinhell.

The Teufelstreppe , of which only half of its original length has been preserved after the expansion of the B 42 in the 1990s, was left to decay for a few years and was therefore closed to pedestrian traffic. In June 2012, on the initiative of the Pfaffendorfer Beautification Association and the Carnival Society General von Aster, the stairs were cleared of dirt and rubbish in a large-scale cleaning operation. A decision to reopen the Teufelstreppe, which is the shortest connection between the Asterstein via Pfaffendorf and the city center, initially dragged on. On July 11, 2014, the restored Teufelstreppe was opened to the public. There is also a memorial plaque with the inscription Hptm v. Mch / Mstr Krim / 1865 (= captain of Mach / master? / 1865).

Monument protection

The Teufelstreppe and the remains of the Glockenberg plant are a protected cultural monument under the Monument Protection Act (DSchG) and are entered in the list of monuments of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . They are located in Koblenz-Asterstein (near) Rudolf-Breitscheid-Straße 21 .

Since 2002 the Teufelstreppe and the remains of the Glockenberg plant have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Upper Middle Rhine Valley .

literature

  • Matthias Kellermann: The Prussian fortress Koblenz and Ehrenbreitstein. On the history of the fortifications on the right bank of the Rhine , 3rd edition, Koblenz 2014. ISBN 978-3-934795-63-1 .
  • Klaus T. Weber (dissertation): The Prussian fortifications of Koblenz (1815–1834) . (Series: Art and Cultural Studies Research) 2003, ISBN 3-89739-340-9
  • Rüdiger Wischemann: The Koblenz Fortress. From the Roman fort and Prussia's strongest fortress to the largest garrison of the German Armed Forces , Koblenz 1978 (note: outdated in many ways, but still the best representation for an overview)
  • Ulrike Weber (edit.): Cultural monuments in Rhineland-Palatinate. Monument topography Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 3.3: City of Koblenz. Districts. Werner, Worms 2013, ISBN 978-3-88462-345-9 .

Web links

Commons : Teufelstreppe (Koblenz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Weber, The Prussian Fortifications of Koblenz (1815–1834), page 319.
  2. This is about the later Prussian Major General Guido Sontag (1821–1889); Julius Christian Friedheim (born July 7, 1836 in Erfurt ), joined the Prussian engineer corps in 1857, in Koblenz from 1864–1865, later company commander in the Hessian 11th Pioneer Department, most recently major and field engineer in Sonderburg-Düppel, 1880 adopted ( Military weekly paper [years 1841–1880] . Berlin. Ranking and quarter list of the Royal Prussian Army for the year ... [1841–1880] . Berlin. ) Johann Anton Maeckler (1820–1886), building contractor, city councilor and father of Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwin Mäckler .
  3. Devil's Staircase: Will it be finished one day? in: Rhein-Zeitung , April 29, 2013
  4. Teufelstreppe is released again , Rhein-Zeitung.de, July 9, 2014. Retrieved July 16, 2014.
  5. These are: Hermann (Paul Ferdinand) von Mach (1827–1879), joined the Prussian engineer corps in 1844, in Koblenz in 1863–1866 and 1871–1872, field engineer in Kolberg and Erfurt, retired in 1873 as lieutenant colonel . A master bricklayer / building contractor Crimea (or similar) cannot be proven ( military weekly paper [years 1844–1873] . Berlin. Ranking and quarter list of the Royal Prussian Army for the year ... [1844–1873] . Berlin. )
  6. ^ General Directorate for Cultural Heritage Rhineland-Palatinate (ed.): Informational directory of cultural monuments - district-free city of Koblenz. Mainz 2020, p. 15 f. (PDF; 6.5 MB).

Coordinates: 50 ° 21 ′ 1 ″  N , 7 ° 36 ′ 41 ″  E