The new Altvaterturm is a memorial against expulsion, a memorial and meeting place, a place of reconciliation, a tourist showcase on the south-eastern Rennsteig. Several rooms in the Altvaterturm are used to display local and historical material.
The tower has a height of 35.8 m, the viewing height on the open viewing platform is 824 m above sea level. N.N.

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The tower on the Wetzstein was built as a memorial against the expulsion of people and as a place of remembrance of a lost homeland. After the expulsion of the Germans from Czechoslovakia in 1945/46, local friends founded the Altvaterturmverein Langgöns in 1976. In 1999, the association rebuilt the Altvaterturm, which collapsed on May 2, 1959 and was not rebuilt, on the Wetzstein in a true-to-original manner.

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