Stamping point 115 / Bismarck Tower

The 15 meter high Bismarck Tower was built on the Kümmel (536 m above sea level) in Bad Lauterberg.

The Bis­mar­ck Tow­er is a pop­u­lar excur­sion des­ti­na­tion in Bad Lauter­berg. It was built in 1904 on the ini­tia­tive of the med­ical coun­cilor August Tis­chmann and today belongs to the Harzk­lub ZV Bad Lauter­berg. The first dona­tions were col­lect­ed in Novem­ber 1902 so that the con­struc­tion work, which was car­ried out by the mas­ter brick­lay­er Wal­ter Nagel from Bad Lauter­berg, could begin quick­ly. The Bis­mar­ck Tow­er was built from nat­ur­al stone and bricks. A relief of Bis­mar­ck made in the bronze foundry is locat­ed halfway up above the entrance to the tower. 

There used to be a fire bowl on the top of the tow­er, which was removed in 1987. Dur­ing the open­ing hours of the restau­rant, the tow­er can be accessed via a 60-step stone stair­case and an 11-step met­al stair­case. The build­ing was com­plete­ly ren­o­vat­ed in 2000. 

On a clear day, the tower’s obser­va­tion deck offers an excel­lent view of the neigh­bor­ing Großer Knollen, Han­sküh­nen­burg, , the Brock­en, the Wurm­berg, Sankt Andreas­berg, the Oder Dam, and the Ravens­berg, as well as Bad Lauter­berg and its dis­tricts of Bar­bis, Bar­tolfelde, and Osterhagen.

The Bis­mar­ck Tow­er is locat­ed on the Harz­er Bau­den­steig and is best reached from the park­ing lot on the Lönsweg.