Moltke Watchtower

The Moltke waiting in the resin is a 1903 erected and about 26 m high observation tower at Lengefeld in the district of Mansfeld- South Harz in Saxony- Anhalt.

Geographical location

The Moltewarte is located in the Lower Harz Harz nature park / Saxony- Anhalt. In the Biosphere Reserve karst landscape Suedharz it is south of Sanger Hausener hamlet Lengefeld on the Schlößchenkopf (also known as High mountain, 310.3 m above sea level. ), Which rises east above the valley of Brechtewendischen Bach. About 1.1 km east of the waiting, the large conical slag heap at the High Linde raises as a remnant of the copper shale mining in the former Thomas Munzer - bay.

History

The Moltewarte was built in 1903 from Rogenstein and inaugurated on 26 October 1903. Stifter was the Harzklub branch club Sangerhausen. The monument was dedicated to the Prussian Field Marshal Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke ( 1800-1891 ). In the time of the GDR fell into the waiting, after which it was refurbished in 1995 fundamentally as part of a job creation measure by the Urban Rehabilitation Society Sangerhausen mbH. Since 2007, instead of waiting on March 11 memorial meetings for the German resistance fighter, Helmuth James von Moltke ( 1907-1945 ).

Viewing and hiking

From the observation deck (about 336 m above sea level. NN ) of the Moltke waiting, which is accessible in the summer months on weekends and holidays, to offer a good prospect, including Sanger -hausen, in the Goldene Aue, for Kyffhaeuser Mountains, according to Lengefeld and near Röhrigschacht at Wettelrode. The waiting is included as No. 209 in the system of stamp locations of the Harz hiking pin; the stamp box is located next to the observation tower standing at the shelter.