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General Information

Other name(s): Tour du Millénaire
Completion: 5 July 2012
Status: in use

Project Type

Function / usage: Observation tower
Material: Timber tower

Location

Location: , , ,
Coordinates: 49° 57' 2.97" N    4° 50' 43.51" E
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Technical Information

Dimensions

weight 82 t
total height 60 m
observation deck 1 height to platform 15 m
observation deck 2 height to platform 30 m
observation deck 3 height to platform 45 m
shaft diameter 3.3 m
height 47.6 m
wood structure height 45 m

Cost

construction cost (without tax) Euro 625 000

Excerpt from Wikipedia

The tour du millénaire (French for tower of the millennium) was a vantage point built in 2001 in Gedinne, Belgium just meters away from the French border.

The tower consisted of two tripods fitted together (one upright, one upside down) with three different viewing platforms (at 15 m, 30 m and 45 m). The total height of the tower (including the spire) was 60 m. The legs of the tripods were the stems of Douglas-fir trees found in the surrounding forest, held together by a steel construction.

It topped the plateau of the Croix-Scaille, a forest of around 90 square kilometres that was used by the Resistance during World War II. The plateau is at 503 m the highest point in the Ardennes (excluding the High Fens which is sometimes defined as being in the Ardennes) and the fourth highest summit in Belgium.

It was dismantled due to woodrot on July 7, 2008.

Text imported from Wikipedia article "Tour du Millénaire" and modified on 23 July 2019 under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

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Relevant Publications

  • Adriaenssens, Sigrid / Devoldere, Stefan / Ney, Laurent / Strauwen, Iwan (2010): Laurent Ney - Shaping Forces. Bozar Books - A+ Editions, Brussels (Belgium), ISBN 9789490814007, pp. 191.
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  • Structure-ID
    20011035
  • Published on:
    17/12/2003
  • Last updated on:
    29/10/2023
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