Wittelsbacher Tower (Bad Kissingen)

The Wittelsbach anniversary Storm is a lookout tower on the 400 m high Scheinberg in Arnshausen, a district of the Lower Franconian spa town of Bad Kissingen. He belongs to the Bad Kissinger monuments and is registered under the number D -6-72-114-168 in the Bavarian monument list.

History

1903 suggested the doctor, Dr. Wendelin Dietz on the construction of a lookout tower, because the previously used Ludwigsturm offered no satisfactory view of the spa town of Bad Kissingen. He sat in front of the set up for that purpose by him Wittelsbach club, Bayern looked after the Empire as a sovereign kingdom; so was the Wittelsbach Club in certain competition to Bismarck Club, the favored Otto von Bismarck and the Empire and in 1914 started on the Sinnberg with the establishment of the Bismarck tower.

Plans for the tower gave the Magistrate Carl spasm; the lion was designed by the sculptor Valentin Weidner. The costs amounted to a total of 27,000 gold marks.

Since 1906, the centenary of the Kingdom of Bavaria decency and was the 700-year anniversary in 1880 was the Wittelsbach family, it was decided to give the planned tower the name Wittelsbach anniversary storm. The foundation stone was laid on 1 January 1906. On September 15, 1907, the inauguration ceremony was held at which were present, among others Prince Regent Luitpold and the President of Lower Franconia and Aschaffenburg, Dr. Muller.

1924 should be round, placed around the tower a memorial to the fallen of the First World War, which came from Lower Franconia. On August 15, 1925, the foundation stone was laid in the presence of Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria was celebrated, but the Great Depression prevented the execution of generous plans.

The purchased by Dr. Wendelin Dietz land on which the tower was initially found himself in the family, but then went over to the state.

In the 1970s, the tower was closed due to disrepair for visitors, but for the 800 - year celebration of the Wittelsbach was a restoration by the Free State of Bavaria.

Meanwhile, the tower is provided as the center of the planned adventure world Saale valley.

The building

The Wittelsbach jubilee tower is 33 m high, the observation platform is at a height of 25 m, which is about 245 m above the Saale valley, which can be overlooked by the tower. On the top of the tower is a lion wearing a crown attached. The tower is built of limestone, but the lion and the portal, the parapet and dome are made of green sandstone.

From 1930 there was also a restaurant next to the tower. The first, built in block construction guest house burned but 1933 - presumably after an arson - down. It was replaced by a solid construction in the same year. These were followed by extensive renovations and extensions, also a brewery and a hall.

View

From the Wittelsbach anniversary storm you can see on Bad Kissingen and the Saale valley and the Sodenberg at Hammelburg.