Adalbertsturm
The Adalbertsturm was a defense tower of the outer city wall of the city of Aachen, which was built between 1300 and 1350 .
location
The Adalbertsturm stood directly next to the Adalbertstor on today's Kaiserplatz on the south side of the rock on which the Adalbertkirche rises and where the Adalbertstift and the guard house on the Adalbertstift used to be . Because of this spatial proximity, the tower was often seen as part of the monastery and not as an independent defensive structure of the city wall. In Carl Rhoen's standard work on the fortifications of the free imperial city of Aachen, it is entered on the map, but has no reference number and is not described in the text.
The Adalbertsturm stood in the outer ring of the wall between Kölntor and Adalbertstor . The water tower existed between the Adalbertsturm and the Kölntor, and there was no other tower between the Adalbertsturm and the Adalbertstor.
description
The Adalbertsturm is a round tower with a diameter of approx. 7 m. It is almost completely preserved, only the upper part of the wall and the original pointed conical roof are missing.
Todays use
The Adalbertsturm is now owned by the parish of St. Adalbert and is used as an event room by the associated group of scouts .
See also
literature
- Bruno Lerho : The great Aachen city wall with gates and towers . Helios Verlag, Aachen 2006, ISBN 3-938208-37-6 .
- Carl Rhoen : The fortifications of the free imperial city of Aachen . Anton Creutzer, Aachen 1894, p. 18th f ., urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-230540 ( ISL Aachen [PDF; accessed on May 7, 2016]).
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 50 ° 46 ′ 29.1 ″ N , 6 ° 5 ′ 43.5 ″ E