Citizen Tower (Freising)
The Bürgerturm is a four- story watchtower in the northeast of the Freising old town . Today the tower at Unteren Graben 25 is the last visible remnant of the city wall of the city fortifications of Freising alongside the heavily modified Karlsturm .
It was built around 1350 as part of the medieval city fortifications. The tower was first mentioned in a tax book from 1528. There it was named Stat durn (city tower). The name Burgers Turm has been known since 1693 .
The tower was initially built as a defensive tower open at the top. It was not until the 18th century that it received its tent roof, which still exists today . From the 16th century, the town tower has been proven to be inhabited. From 1693 to 1750 the tower was used as a gunpowder warehouse. There was also a detention room. After secularization in Bavaria in 1802/03, it served as a city prison and later as a poor house .
Due to the poor condition of the tower, the city magistrate decided on August 21, 1913 that the tower could no longer be inhabited, but ruled out its sale or demolition. From 1914, the Freising volunteer fire brigade then used the building as a hose tower . How long the volunteer fire brigade used the tower is not known.
During the Third Reich, meetings of the Hitler Youth took place there. After it was used by various youth groups in the years after the Second World War , who also renovated the tower, the Bund Naturschutz in Bayern rented the premises in 1977. After they moved out around 1990, the citizen tower was extensively renovated between 1994 and 1996 by a citizens' initiative with donations. The moat museum has been housed in it since then. In the museum, which opened on May 22, 1996, there are changing exhibitions on topics from Freising's history.
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Coordinates: 48 ° 24 ′ 10.08 ″ N , 11 ° 44 ′ 47.4 ″ E