Aussichtsturm Schlossberg

The Schlossberg tower is 33.27 meters high, erected in 2002 lookout tower on the Schlossberg near the old town of Freiburg im Breisgau. Its peak is 463 meters above sea level making it 185 meters above the mean height of the city ( 278 meters).

As the site was not a mountain peak, but a gently sloping ridge, selected the Salzbüchslekuppe of the Schlossberg. The construction went from an initiative of the Board of Trustees Schlossberg eV and was inaugurated in November 2002. The building cost a total of 375,000 euros have been two-thirds financed by donations, collected by the Board of Trustees. For each donor, a plaque with his name was mounted on the vertical part of a step, so that the donor names are read when climbing the tower.

The tower has 153 steps and falls by its unusual construction on Long wooden tree trunks were twisted around a staircase made ​​of steel " as mutually rotated Mikado rods ". The 34 -meter Douglas fir used for this purpose, the Freiburg city forest Ottilie forest are about one hundred years old and had been felled by Hurricane Lothar. They have a wood volume of 8 to 10 cubic meters and weigh about ten tons, which is why they were too heavy for the originally planned helicopter transport and had to be brought to their place of use of a special cable crane. After fungal attack the tree trunks were treated chemikalisch 2009 and was rescued and faster decomposition. Again and again, however, there are pests that have a temporarily closure of the Tower of consequence most recently in February 2014.

The tower has three viewing platforms, you arrive at the top via a small spiral staircase. It allows a panoramic view of the city of Freiburg and its surroundings. From other vantage points one always sees the other hand, only parts of the city.