Ziggurats, Towers and Spires

The Devil´s Tower in Bergen, New Jersey.
It ws buildt by Manuel Rionda (1854-1943) so his wife coulde see New York from New Jersey.
There is supposed to be a ghost in the tower.

Mount Tamalpais CCC Heritage Adventure (east peak fire lookout tower)
www.parks.ca.gov

CCC stands for the federal Civilian Conservation Corps - which, if I remember correctly, was responsible for many beautiful park buildings throughout the US.

From Bergen New Jersey to Bergen Norway

Gamlehaugen is a mansion in Bergen, Norway, and the residence of the Norwegian Royal Family in the city. Gamlehaugen has a history that goes as far back as the Middle Ages,

The large English park is open to the public and the first floor of the house is a museum. Gamlehaugen has been the Norwegian Royal Family's residence in Bergen since 1927.

OOooooo0, absoultely gorgeous photo and structure!

Going south we come to Bergen onthe German island Rügen where the tower Wall Rugard stands.

Now that's neat.

That's actually the "Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Turm (tower)", built for the 100th anniversary of the German poet Ernst Moritz Arndt in 1877.

Very superb additions indeed to our collection! Thank you very much for your posts Saab!

And thanks to everyone else for all their great and wonderful contributions to this thread!

The towers of the Oberbaum Bridge ("Oberbaumbrücke"), a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree. (The lower deck of the bridge carries a roadway, the upper deck of the bridge carries Berlin's underground line U1)

WOW, beautiful style! Such a treasure of artistry!

Okay, here's one that knocked me out. It's the tower at the top of the Merkur Berg in the Merkur Wald, in the Black Forest, something like 1200 meters above Baden Baden Germany. When we were there, they were working on it, so it was closed, but it's pretty awesome just to look at it. I think that's an observation deck around the bottom, and it's probably a broadcasting tower for something.It;s the top of a mountain, with open fields at its foot, and incredible panoramic views all around. And when you're tired of looking at the view, there's a chalet restaurant known for its hot chocolate--good because it gets a mite nippy that high up. The other neat thing is that you get to it via the Merkurbergbahn, a funicular railway that runs by cables up the mountain, in principle like San Francisco's cable cars. It climbs 1200 meters through the dark trees of the
Schwarzwald, the Black Forest, and then opens out to these incredible vistas. You can see the Rhine flowing down two valleys over, and in the other direction the towers of Sudwest Deutschland Rundfunk -- SW German Radio, whose Symphony Orchestra's records I used to listen to in college (and play on the college radio station).



That's the tower. Here's a video of a ride on the cable railway up the mountain. It's all automatic, no driver, two cars one going up and one coming down counterbalance each other. Maximum grade is 54%, you can see how slanted the cars are to go up the slope. the forest looks really primeval as you go through it. (takes a minute or so of the video for the trip to actually get under way).



And here's a short video of the train ride up andthe views from the top of the mountain

Very nice and enjoyable with the two videos. I really enjoyed them.
In reality I think a tower looks best from the ground. No reason in the world to get up on the top.

Ingatorp church in Sweden. Nordic art nouveau style.
Interior of the church

Hochzeitsturm (1907, "Marriage Tower") at Darmstadt, which had rounded, fingerlike projections on its roof suggestive of Art Nouveau but also had bands of windows denoting a distinctly modern trend.

Interesting - almost looks like the church organ is on top of the tower.

That's quite a common architectural design in "Jugendstil", though this tower is quite special (called locally "five-finger-tower").

Here a different view, with the Russian church

Nagoya Castle, Japan

The little red lighthouse in New York

This is not the most impressiv lighthouse, but the 131 steps to the top are ship-ladder steps. Imagen when men to carry whale oil and kerosan up to the top?