Aussichtsturm Hessenstein - Panker, SH, DE
N 54° 19.681 E 010° 32.748
32U E 600524 N 6021120
Lookout tower of the Panker Manor Borough, made of brick and offers a fine view over the Holstein Switzerland.
Waymark Code: WM183BN
Location: Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Date Posted: 05/22/2023
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About one and a half kilometers west-southwest of the manor house, a 19th-century lookout tower called the Hessenstein rises on the 128-meter-high Pilsberg, an upsetting moraine. The polygonal tower in neo-Gothic style was erected from 1839 to 1841 and is seventeen meters high. A cast-iron spiral staircase leads up to the viewing platform, which is surrounded by a battlement and offers a view from Kiel's shipyards over the Laboe Naval Memorial to the Baltic Sea as far as Hohwachter Bay and the Great Inland Sea. On a clear day, the view extends to Schwansen and Fehmarn as well as the Danish islands of Als and Ærø. The Bungsberg can be seen in a southeasterly direction through a lane between the surrounding trees. The tower adorns Panker's coat of arms and was the first in a series of similar lookout towers in Schleswig-Holstein, such as the Elisabethturm on the Bungsberg or the Parnaß-Turm near Plön.
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