Wilzenberg Tower

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Wilzenberg Tower

The Wilzenbergturm near Grafschaft in the North Rhine-Westphalian Hochsauerlandkreis is a 17-meter-high listed observation tower built in 1889 in a steel framework construction on the Wilzenberg . The tower, which is one of the oldest iron observation towers, has two platforms and stands out due to its unconventional construction with a hexagonal floor plan.

Geographical location

The Wilzenberg tower stands in the Rothaargebirge at 657.8  m above sea level. NHN high Wilzenberg. It is located around 1 km (as the crow flies ) north-northeast of the village church of the Schmallenberg district Grafschaft and can be reached from there or from the northeast Schmallenberg district Winkhausen on forest paths and paths. A trigonometric point at a height of 655.4  m is marked on topographic maps near the tower .

history

After 1880 the idea to build the tower arose. With the great commitment of the Oberkirchen manufacturer Otto Schütte , a plan developed out of this. In 1883 a tower committee was founded. It was planned to build a 15 m high observation tower made of iron. Otto Schütte agreed to provide the necessary charcoal from his factory . The donations were poor, so the Sauerland Mountain Association donated part of the amount. Due to financial difficulties, the tower was initially only built up to a height of 10 m in 1889.

When it was to be renovated in 1989 as part of its centenary, the tower was raised to its current height of 17 m. The new tower was officially inaugurated on May 12, 1990. The steel construction of the Wilzenberg tower has a hexagonal floor plan and is one of the oldest iron observation towers. A spiral staircase leads to two platforms at 8.9 m and 15.9 m tower height, of which the upper one offers an almost complete all-round view over the surrounding tree tops.

Possibility of viewing

From the upper viewing platform of the Wilzenberg tower , the view not only falls into the Rothaar Mountains and down to Schmallenberg, but also over to the Saalhauser Mountains and the Lenne Mountains .

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Panoramic view from the Wilzenberg tower

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Topographical Information Management, Cologne District Government, Department GEObasis NRW ( Notes )
  2. ↑ Map services of the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation ( information )
  3. ↑ Schmallenberger Sauerland: Almanach 1991 , inauguration of the new Wilzenberg tower - address by Hans Fröhlich , p. 111
  4. ^ Schmallenberger Sauerland: Almanach 1991 , On the inauguration of the new Wilzenberg tower, p. 109
  5. ↑ Height information according to measurements carried out privately
  6. ↑ Monument of the month - October 2009 : The Witzenberg with observation tower (Schmallenberg) , accessed on September 17, 2017, on historic-ortskerne-nrw.de

literature

  • Schmallenberger Sauerland: Almanach 1991 , on the inauguration of the new Wilzenberg tower, p. 109 ff., Schieferbergbau Museum Schmallenberg, ISBN 3-922659-43-8

Web links

Commons : Wilzenbergturm  - Collection of images

Coordinates: 51 ° 9 ′ 12.7 ″  N , 8 ° 19 ′ 50.6 ″  E