Wäschberg

Wäschberg with water tower Bräunsdorf

The Wäschberg is a 401.7 meter high mountain in the lower Eastern Ore Mountains to the northwest of Bräunsdorf in the district of Central Saxony, Saxony, Germany.

The mountain consists predominantly of mica schist in its foothills he goes in a south-easterly direction in Biotitgneis, in a northwesterly direction over greywacke and thus represents a part of the edge region of the Ore Mountains towards the Saxon Lößhügelland dar.

The Wäschberg situated in the basin of the Great Striegis and is primarily used for agricultural purposes, only on steeply sloping to steep, western, the Striegistale facing slope it is used in forestry. On the top of the mountain there is a trigonometric measurement point and the Bräunsdorfer water tower.

Bräunsdorfer water tower

The Bräunsdorfer water tower has a height of 25 meters or, including the attached turret, of 29 meters. The tower diameter is the octagonal foot seven meters, 18 meters in height or 5 meters. It follows the water storage area with a diameter of nine meters. The tower is crowned by a 30 cm high, divided into loopholes parapet and a sideways -mounted four -meter-high tower, which is the roof access. The two existing storage tanks inside each hold 30 cubic meters of water. The tower was built in 1906 in a steel frame made ​​of 24 cm thick steel beams. Between 1910 and 1913 there was a lining of steel beams gaps with bricks, as well as a covering and decorating with roughcast in the Romanesque Revival - historicist style.

The water supply of the tower was carried out from a tunnel at the eastern foot of the Wäschberges and served the drinking water supply of the State Institute Bräunsdorf ( boarding school ). In 1997, the water system was shut down. The listed tower is now in a desolate state. From the top of the water tower, one can to the Leipzig Battle Monument and to the Fichtelgebirge and the wedge mountain views.