The Bismarck Tower in Lüdenscheid ( German: Bismarckturm in Lüdenscheid ) is a monument tower (memorial column), erected in 1901-1902 in the city of Lüdenscheid in honor of former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck ; It was demolished in the summer of 1965.
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Content
- 1 History and description
- 2 See also
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
History and Description
The idea of building a tower in honor of former German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck in Ludenscheid arose in the autumn of 1898: on January 12, 1899, a construction committee was formed with 19 members, and newspapers began to urge the townspeople to make donations; By February 21 of the following year, 26,543 marks from 1300 people were collected. As in the neighboring city of Hagen , the award-winning design by architect Wilhelm Kreis , modified by the urban architect Jodikke “in accordance with local conditions”, was chosen for construction. Of the three possible seats, board members, by a 75% majority, chose Mount Breitenloh - although architect Kreis himself spoke for Mount Hyo ( German: Höh ). The city administration provided a 16- acre plot of land, acquired in 1899 for the construction of a sports ground [1] .
Construction work was carried out by the local Hugo Klein company - individual blocks of the square pedestal of the tower, which had a height of 17.5 meters, weighed up to five tons. The construction, led by Yodikke, was completed in October 1901. The official opening ceremony was postponed to May 11, 1902 [2] [3] , in the hope of good weather. The fire at the top of the tower - in its two-meter bowl - was lit even before the formal opening: April 1, Bismarck’s birthday. In 1956, a school named after Albert Schweitzer was built around Bismarcturm - the building was now in the middle of the school site. On January 25, 1965, the Ludenscheid City Council decided to demolish the tower, which required a major reconstruction [4] : the demolition was carried out in the summer of that year. Part of the building materials was used in the construction and repair of neighboring buildings.
See also
- Homert Tower
- Bismarck Tower in Iserlohn
Notes
- ↑ Lüdenscheider Generalanzeiger, 10/09/1942
- ↑ Lüdenscheider Zeitung, 05/12/1902
- ↑ Lüdenscheider Wochenblatt, 05/12/1902
- ↑ Lüdenscheider Nachrichten, 20./21/06/1964
Literature
- Seele, Sieglinde, Mannheim (Archiv Seele): Bismarck-säule von Lüdenscheid (Nordrhein-Westfalen).
- Seele, Sieglinde: Lexikon der Bismarck-Denkmäler, Imhof-Verlag Petersberg, 2005, S. 258.
- von Bismarck, Valentin: Bismarck-Feuersäulen u. Türme (unveröffentlichtes Manuskript); Nr. 62 "Bismarck-Feuersäule zu Lüdenscheid i. W. ", 1900-1915, 1937 (im Archiv der Burschenschaft Alemannia, Bonn).
- Beilage: “Die Bismarck-Feuersäule” // Zeitschriften des Bismarck-Bundes; 5. Jahrgang 1907.
- Ehrhardt, Max: 2. Teil, “Die Bismarck-Säule (Architekt Kreis) zu Lüdenscheid (Westf.)” // Bismarck im Denkmal des In- und Auslandes, Thüringische Verlags-Anstalt Eisenach-Leipzig, 1903.
- Timm, Willy: “Ihre Flammen lodern nicht mehr”, Der Märker, 25. Jahrgang 1976, Heft 2, S. 23-26.
- Saal, Dieter (Stadtarchiv Lüdenscheid), Schreiben vom 03/08/2002.
Links
- Der Bismarckturm im Pausenhof: Die Lüdenscheider Bismarcksäule (German) . Bismarcktürme und Bismarcksäulen (21.August 2018). Date of treatment November 2, 2018.