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Niederdürenbach Tensioning Station — Monument and View of Olbrück Castle

Niederdürenbach Tensioning Station — Monument and View of Olbrück Castle

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Niederdürenbach Tensioning Station — Monument and View of Olbrück Castle

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Location: Niederdürenbach, Ahrweiler, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

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3. Water Lily Pond at Rodder Maar – Rodder Maar loop from Niederzissen

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Mo Nika

June 2, 2020

The stones broken in Oberdürenbach were transported by cable car to Oberzissen. T. crushed to gravel and transported to Brohl by Brohltalbahn. From there, the building materials for road construction, for bank fortifications on rivers, canals and the sea continued by ship or Reichsbahn.

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uta_is_hiking

October 18, 2022

The tour starts at the parking lot just before the golf course and leads over the heights at the edge of the forest over meadows and fields with an almost constant view of Olbrueck Castle.

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PeterH65 (a.k.a. "Waldorf")

July 12, 2024

"The tensioning station in Niederdürenbach was tasked with keeping wire ropes, some of which were freely spanned up to 300 m, taut. This required tons of weight. Huge wooden barrels filled with basalt stones kept both the support cable for the cable looms and the traction cable under tension.

This made it easy to bridge the uneven terrain and also eliminated the need for support masts. An observation post for safety checks of the support and traction cables was set up on the 7 m long and 5 m high concrete pillar, on which a steel structure allowed the cable guidance and tensioning of the wire ropes. Of all the facilities of the former cable car between the quarry near Oberdürenbach and the crushing plant in Oberzissen, only this concrete pillar remains in its original form.

Its surroundings were restored to their current state by volunteers in 2007. A silent witness to the industrial achievements of that time."

niederduerenbach.de/kultur-tourismus/gehenswertes

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Niederdürenbach Tensioning Station — Monument and View of Olbrück Castle

1. Weiselstein Observation Tower loop from Niederdürenbach

2. Water Lily Pond at Rodder Maar – View of Burg Olbrück loop from Niederdürenbach

3. Water Lily Pond at Rodder Maar – Rodder Maar loop from Niederzissen

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