Petřín Lookout Tower

The observation tower Petrin ( Petřínská rozhledna ) is located on the 318 meter high Petrin hill in the district of Lesser Town ( Malá Strana ) of Prague. The 63.5 -meter-high tower was opened on the occasion of the exhibition industry on 20 August 1891 as scaled replica of the Eiffel Tower in Paris and provide a comprehensive view of Prague and the surrounding area. Construction began March 16, 1891 1953., A television broadcast antenna was installed on the tower. In 1991, the tower reopened to the public after several years of renovation work. Since 1992, the tower no longer serves as a television broadcast station.

Reachable the tower is walking over a 45 - minute climb through the park or in about 10 minutes with the Petřin funicular. To reach the top of the two viewing platform, 299 steps must ( a staircase for the up and one for down) be dealt with in a double- spiral staircase in the form of a double helix. There is also a lift, but this is not always in operation.

Description

Unlike the Eiffel Tower, the Petrin lookout tower has no square, but through an octagonal cross -section, and also is not like his Parisian model on four steel truss columns. Its construction is more similar to the observation tower on the Götzinger height at Neustadt in Sachsen than that of the Eiffel Tower. In contrast to the Eiffel Tower and the lookout tower on the Götzinger amount of space between the foundations is filled by the entrance hall. One similarity with the Eiffel Tower is the execution of the lowest cross-connections as arches.

The steel structure weighs 175 tons.