Pyramidenkogel

The Pyramid Peak with former observation deck (in the foreground, north of Maria Wörth ).

The Pyramidentower (Slovenian Jedvovca ) is a 850 m above sea level. A. high mountain in Southern Carinthia, Austria.

Location Description

The ridge is located south of Lake Wörth and north of Keutschacher 4- lakes valley (also: 4- Seental Keutschach and Keutschacher Seental called, with the lakes from west to east: Hafnersee, Keutschacher See, Baßgeigensee and Rauschelesee ), which was in 1970 declared a conservation area. South of the Hafnersee is the Penkensee. The area belongs to the Sattnitz, the " wooded hill country in southern Klagenfurt Basin, between Lake Wörth and Glanfurt - Glan- Gurk lowlands in the north and the Rosental der Drau ( with Feistritzer and Ferlacher Reservoir ) in the South" is a low mountain range in.

Observation tower

Prior to 1969 there were on the Pyramidentower a small wooden watch-tower, which was located next to the station was built in 1957 Pyramidentower. In the years 1966-1968 a tower with 54 meters high was built in reinforced concrete. As a required remediation would have been too expensive, a new building was planned.

In an architectural competition, the draft of the Klagenfurt architectural firms Markus Klaura and Dietmar Kaden and the structural engineer Markus Lackner won with an approximately 100 meters high, elegantly curved screw made ​​of wood and steel.

After seven years of planning, the foundation stone was laid on 31 October 2012 and the plant was opened on 20 June 2013. The basic building with a restaurant forms an ensemble with the tower.

The tallest wooden observation tower in the world is open all year round and it is also the tallest building integrated slide in Europe.

Gallery

Views of Lake Wörth

New lookout tower

Dry slide and stairs in the new observation tower