Goethe Tower

The Goethe Tower is a fully wooden -built, 43-meter high observation tower at the northern edge of the Frankfurt City Forest in Frankfurt -Sachsenhausen ( Sachsenhausen Landwehrweg ). It has 196 steps and was until 1999 the tallest publicly accessible timber of Germany.

History

Since 1867 was a then 22 -meter high wooden tower on the same site. The original tower had to be demolished after the First World War due to disrepair.

The new Goethe tower was built in 1931, for which the Jewish merchant and Commerce Gustav Gerst donated 28,000 Reichsmarks. The city provided the chosen one by the former chief forester Jacobi timber, a total of about 340 m³ of pine, beech and oak, is available. The opening ceremony was held in November 1931 - shortly before the beginning of Goethe in 1932 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the death of Goethe. Today we have a look at the south-eastern suburbs of Frankfurt by the trees.

From 1981 to 1982, the tower was renovated. The reopening of a festival was held on Saturday, May 8, 1982. Since then finds the Goetheturm festival of club ring Sachsenhausen eV and its affiliated clubs once a year at the foot of the tower instead. Date is always the first Saturday in May.

Near the tower is a replica of Doric column with the inscription Arcadia, a kingdom in Sparta neighborhood, a work of art by Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay in 2000. The monument was created as part of the beautification project " Goethe Tower ".

Use

To date, the Goethe Tower is a popular tourist destination that is visited by particular families, as at the foot of the tower, a large children 's playground and a garden restaurant were created. The Goethe Tower is open from April to September every day from 10:00 bis 18:00 clock clock. The tower, however, is closed for renovation until 2013.

The Goethe Tower serves as an observation tower as well as a transmission tower for mobile communication. He also served as a television converter ( channel E47 ). In 2007, he was after the radio tower gang book (60 meters without antennas ), the Millennium Tower in Magdeburg (60 meters), the twin towers of the antenna measuring station bridge ( 54 meters ) and the observation tower Blumenthal (45 meters) is the fifth tallest wooden building in Germany.

Waldspielpark Goetheturm

At the foot of the Goethe tower of the 3 -acre play park Goetheturm was created. The playground park with giant water slide and wading pool is completely tailored to kids. The paddling pool is from an outside temperature of at least 22 ° C in operation. 2006, the maze with greenbelt animals were created in the playground park.

Transport links

The Goethe Tower is accessible via the bus line 48, stop Goethe Tower, well served by public transport. The stops Hainer Weg and Sachsenhäuser waiting the bus lines 30, 36, OF- 50 and 653 are accessible by a short walk. For motorized traffic is a large car park at the Saxony Landwehrweg available.

Pictures

View from the Goethe tower

Goethe's rest at the Goethe Tower

Maze in the forest playground Goetheturm