Habsburgwarte
Austria
The tower you are walking towards sits just south-west of the summit of the Hermannskogel, a 544-metre hill in Wien, and it is built to look older than it is. At 27 metres, the Habsburgwarte takes the form of a medieval defensive tower: a sixteen-metre round tower of stone with an eleven-metre pointed turret set on top. The style is a deliberate mix, neo-Romanesque and neo-Gothic, drawn up by the architect Franz von Neumann junior. It reads as a castle keep, but it was conceived as a lookout, and it has quietly done a second, far more technical job for most of its life.
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