The Gauss Tower is a reinforced
concrete
Concrete is a composite material composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement (cement paste) that hardens (cures) over time. Concrete is the second-most-used substance in the world after water, and is the most wi ...
observation tower on the summit of the
Hoher Hagen in
Dransfeld
Dransfeld is a town in the district of Göttingen, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 12 km west of Göttingen.
Dransfeld is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") Dransfeld.
Infrastructure
...
,
Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. The tower can be reached directly by car. A restaurant with a panoramic view is located inside the tower.
The tower is named for
Carl Friedrich Gauss, who made the large triangle from the Hohen Hagen break into Inselsberg a basis of his
survey
Survey may refer to:
Statistics and human research
* Statistical survey, a method for collecting quantitative information about items in a population
* Survey (human research), including opinion polls
Spatial measurement
* Surveying, the techniq ...
of
Hanover
Hanover (; german: Hannover ; nds, Hannober) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Lower Saxony. Its 535,932 (2021) inhabitants make it the 13th-largest city in Germany as well as the fourth-largest city in Northern Germany ...
.
From 1909 to 1963, there had already been a Gaussturm nearby. It broke when a quarry was expanded too far in the 1950s.
Data
*Construction period: 11 months
*Completion: September 1964
*Viewing platform: 528 m over NN
*Tower height: 51 m
*Foundation: 6 m deep, with a diameter of 13 m.
*Diameter of tower shaft: 5 m
**1st platform: 18 m (at a value of 14,5 m)
**Top platform: 13 m
*Elevator capacity: Maximum 8 persons
*Travel time: 55 seconds
*Emergency stairway: 225 steps, leading from the viewing platform to the entrance and/or the cellar
See also
*
List of towers
Several extant building fulfill the engineering definition of a tower: "a tall human structure, always taller than it is wide, for public or regular operational access by humans, but not for living in or office work, and are ''self-supporting' ...
External links
*
*
{{coord, 51, 28, 26, N, 9, 45, 57, E, region:DE-NI_type:mountain, display=title
Observation towers in Lower Saxony